Pivot
With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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"It's not a meritocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy"
Kara and Scott talk about the avalanche of recent Facebook news -- including Zuckerberg's new professed want for regulations.
32 min
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Will the rising tide of ride sharing Lyft all b...
Scott and Kara are skeptical of Lyft's IPO. What exactly is the network effect of ride shares?
32 min
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Does social media cause terrorism?
Kara and Scott talk about terrorism against the Muslim community in New Zealand and how social media may be exacerbating this type of violence.
27 min
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LIVE! From SXSW it's Kara and Scott
Kara and Scott are live in Austin, Texas for SXSW. They talk antitrust, the breakdown of big tech and take audience questions and predictions.
47 min
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Facebook says it’s all about privacy now. OK, s...
Kara and Scott are back! They talk about Zuckerberg's supposed shift towards more privacy on Facebook and, well, we'll believe it when we see it.
32 min
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News flash: Facebook’s contractors are people
Kara brings on her former co-host, Wired senior staff writer and Gadget Lab co-host, Lauren Goode.
39 min
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DC is old news. “The universe revolves around S...
Kara brings on co-host, legendary NYTimes journalist, Maureen Dowd. They talk about how Silicon Valley has eclipsed Washington, DC as the country's true seat of power.
36 min
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Hot Take: Amazon HQ2 breaks up with NYC
Kara and Scott pop back into the studio to give their hot takes on Amazon pulling out of their HQ2 deal with New York City.
9 min
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Is this the year big tech gets regulated? (Prob...
Scott blusters in from his breakfast with Congress on how to regulate big tech — so Kara and Scott get into whether Congress will ever be regulating tech (seems not so likely).
29 min
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Hot Take: Scott Galloway on Bezos vs. AMI [BOOM!]
BONUS episode: Scott couldn't wait to tell Pivot listeners what he thinks about Bezos' post accusing the National Inquirer of extortion.
4 min
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Happy(ish) birthday, Facebook.
Kara and Scott (sort of) celebrate Facebook's 15th birthday.
36 min
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Cook vs. Zuckerberg vs. consumer privacy
Kara and Scott talk about Apple and Facebook's latest gaffes and how Apple might be the only force left regulating Facebook.
31 min
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MAGA teens, Fyre Fest and Twitter wars
Kara and Scott talk about how Twitter duped us all again.
36 min
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"Woke" is the 2019 business strategy
Kara and Scott are back together again! This week they catch up on Jeff Bezos' divorce and his not so hot texting skills (hey alive girls!).
37 min
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Tech addiction and how it might be ruining Gen Z
35 min
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Why the “Fakakta Shutdown” is slowing tech regu...
43 min
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2018's biggest stories and 2019 predictions
33 min
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Facebook’s latest scandal and the "tyranny of t...
28 min
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Google doesn't make iPhones, and other things C...
31 min
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The U.K. piles on Facebook
32 min
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Microsoft is more valuable than Apple again. Why?
35 min
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It's time for Facebook's board to step up
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Facebook's dirty tricks
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Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest
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Sexual harassment at Google, nasty YouTube comm...
35 min