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Travis Kalanick's Right-Hand Man Tells the Story of the Coup that Brought Them Down (w/Emil Michael)
This is definitely an episode you’re going to want to listen to.
It’s been a long time coming.
It’s a sequel of sorts to my interview with Bill Gurle…
3 years, 8 months ago
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I’m in Italy right now for my first extended vacation of the year. I spent yesterday bopping around Siena, taking in another beautiful Duomo, eating …
3 years, 8 months ago
SBF Plays Crypto Savior (w/Teddy Schleifer & Jeff John Roberts)
Sam Bankman-Fried, “SBF,” is bailing out failing crypto companies.
The question is whether he’s trying to stymie contagion risk from further roiling …
3 years, 9 months ago
A Long Drag on a Mango Juul Pod (w/ Lauren Etter)
I got back from Collision, the 35,000-person tech conference in Toronto, Sunday night. Everyone is worried about falling valuations — but the tech wo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Nothing More Than a Magic Trick (w/Gary Marcus)
Are we nearing a time when we are going to get to have real, meaningful conversations with artificial intelligence?
Nitasha Tiku got the world wonderi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Coming to You From a Soon To Be Chesa-Free San Francisco (w/Jonathan Weber)
I moved from San Francisco to New York, in February 2019, back before it was cool to turn tail on the tech mecca. Truth be told, I’ll always have a s…
3 years, 9 months ago
Sheryl Sandberg Leans Out (w/Deepa Seetharaman)
Big tech executives are heading for the exits. Last week, Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced that she would leave the Facebook pa…
3 years, 10 months ago
State of Substack (w/Casey Newton)
One of the many joys of going independent and writing on Substack is that I work at the eye of a trend piece. There’s a storm circling around me with…
3 years, 10 months ago
How Tech is Defending the Right to an Abortion (w/Kiki Freedman)
As the Supreme Court moves toward repealing Roe v. Wade, access to abortion pills over the internet could become a key frontier in the fight for abor…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Rug Pull Really Tied the Room Together
I’ve been writing about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2013. That means that I’ve seen a number of boom and bust cycles.
It’s starting to feel lik…
3 years, 10 months ago