Pivot
Episodes
Uber's IPO and, more importantly, Game of Thrones
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Disney breaking into the content streaming business, the Uber IPO and, yes, Game of Thrones. Facebook actually gets a win th...
Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington ... again
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Congressional hearings on tech platforms responsibility for spreading white nationalism and other hate speech. New Zealand, ...
"It's not a meritocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy"
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the avalanche of recent Facebook news -- including Zuckerberg's new professed want for regulations. They also talk about You...
Will the rising tide of ride sharing Lyft all boats?
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Kara are skeptical of Lyft's IPO. What exactly is the network effect of ride shares? Also, Facebook says it's banning white nationalist post...
Does social media cause terrorism?
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about terrorism against the Muslim community in New Zealand and how social media may be exacerbating this type of violence. They t...
LIVE! From SXSW it's Kara and Scott
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are live in Austin, Texas for SXSW. They talk antitrust, the breakdown of big tech and take audience questions and predictions. Learn...
Facebook says it’s all about privacy now. OK, sure.
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. Mean...
News flash: Facebook’s contractors are people
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara brings on her former co-host, Wired senior staff writer and Gadget Lab co-host, Lauren Goode. They talk about the moderating content on Facebook ...
DC is old news. “The universe revolves around Silicon Valley”
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara brings on co-host, legendary NYTimes journalist, Maureen Dowd. They talk about how Silicon Valley has eclipsed Washington, DC as the country's tr...
Hot Take: Amazon HQ2 breaks up with NYC
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. Learn more about your ad...
Is this the year big tech gets regulated? (Probably not.)
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Hot Take: Scott Galloway on Bezos vs. AMI [BOOM!]
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BONUS episode: Scott couldn't wait to tell Pivot listeners what he thinks about Bezos' post accusing the National Inquirer of extortion. Learn more ab...
Happy(ish) birthday, Facebook.
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott (sort of) celebrate Facebook's 15th birthday. With pop-ins and hot takes from a couple friends, including Congressman Ro Khanna and pod...
Cook vs. Zuckerberg vs. consumer privacy
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Apple and Facebook's latest gaffes and how Apple might be the only force left regulating Facebook. There's a-latte to say ab...
MAGA teens, Fyre Fest and Twitter wars
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about how Twitter duped us all again. Scott is fresh off a conference where both he and Sheryl Sandberg talked about the future of...
"Woke" is the 2019 business strategy
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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!). We're pre...
Tech addiction and how it might be ruining Gen Z
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott brings on a guest-host, his NYU colleague and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...
Why the “Fakakta Shutdown” is slowing tech regulation even further
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara brings on guest host Jon Lovett (Pod Save America) to talk about the government shut down, the new Congress and how it all might shake out for bi...
2018's biggest stories and 2019 predictions
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about some of the biggest stories in tech and business of the past year. They also make some big predictions for 2019. Learn mor...
Facebook’s latest scandal and the "tyranny of technology"
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott breakdown yet another Facebook scandal. This time, it turns out Facebook was passing on private user message data to partners like Netf...
Google doesn't make iPhones, and other things Congress learned this week
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Google's CEO testifying to Congress. The company is being evasive about its controversial search engine in China. But on the...
The U.K. piles on Facebook
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the latest dump of emails exposing Facebook management’s malfeasance, but Scott thinks it’s just the U.K. piling on. L...
Microsoft is more valuable than Apple again. Why?
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Microsoft surpassing Apple. They also come to an agreement that “Republicans buy football teams and Democrats buy media pr...
It's time for Facebook's board to step up
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about how Facebook's C-suite has responded to reports of mismanagement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Facebook's dirty tricks
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook and the explosive report on their mismanagement and deception over the past three years. Learn more about your ad...
Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the upshot of the 2018 midterms, Amazon’s surprise HQ2 announcement and how our perception of social media has been perman...
Sexual harassment at Google, nasty YouTube comments and Beto O'Rourke
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Google's attempts to cover up sexual harassment claims against three of its top executives; the negative effects of cable ne...
Tim Cook’s 'data industrial complex,' Uber’s IPO and Saudi money
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Apple CEO Tim Cook's latest critiques of Facebook and Google; the fact that Uber's IPO could value the company at as much as...
Saudi money, Facebook’s fib and Amazon HQ2
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recode's Kara Swisher and NYU's Scott Galloway talk about Silicon Valley's Saudi money crisis, the ongoing fallout from Facebook Portal and the cities...
Google's data breach, Facebook Portal, and Taylor Swift
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott discuss why the Google Plus hack matters, the new Facebook Portal and its plastic lenscap, and Kara's affection for Taylor Swift (even ...
Facebook's data breach, Elon vs. SEC and the Kavanaugh hearings
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Pivot, Kara and Scott talk about: (01:20) Facebook's massive data breach; (06:05) Elon Musk's $20 million SEC settlement; (12:43) W...
Instagram co-founders, "tech bias" and why Amazon will buy Snapchat
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the dramatic departure of Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' war on "tech...
Kara and Scott explain what happens on Pivot
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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