Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. He’s making all these changes, and he’s realizing that content moderation decisions are qu…
3 years, 3 months ago
Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander
Today, we need to talk about Bob. Two Bobs, actually: Bob Iger, the former and now current CEO of Disney, and Bob Chapek, the man Iger handpicked as …
3 years, 3 months ago
How Bose compete with AirPods — and why it’s in more cars than ever, with CEO Lila Snyder
Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world: it was famous for the Wave radio in the 80s, it invented noise cancellation, you can …
3 years, 3 months ago
On with Kara Swisher: Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around?
Chris Licht faces an uphill battle at CNN. He got the CEO gig in the midst of a prickly merger between Warner Bros. and Discovery and right after the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Phil Spencer really wants you to know that native Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation
Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is in charge of Xbox and all the game studios that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Phil came to talk to…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why Figma is selling to Adobe for $20 billion, with CEO Dylan Field
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, which makes a very popular design tool that allows designers and their collaborators to all work toge…
3 years, 4 months ago
The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently short a commissioner, and the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats just can't seem to g…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why Amazon VP Steve Boom just made the entire music catalog free with Prime
I love covering the music industry, but over the past 10 years I’ve found that it’s one of the most challenging things to make accessible to a wide a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why
Steve Cagle is the CEO of Clearwater Compliance, which is a cybersecurity firm focused on the healthcare industry. Basically, they lock down hospital…
3 years, 4 months ago
The people who make your apps go to Stack Overflow for answers – here's how it works
Today I'm talking to Prashanth Chandrasekar the CEO of Stack Overflow – a highly specialized kind of social network, with a really unique business mo…
3 years, 4 months ago