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A Content Farming Retrospective (w/Shawn Colo)
In 2011, Google brought the hammer down on Demand Media. The search giant changed its search algorithm and sent Demand Media’s stock plummeting. The …
4 years, 1 month ago
Super Pumped (w/Mike Isaac)
As much as insiders might bristle over their portrayals, television and movies shape how the world sees Silicon Valley.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Net…
4 years, 1 month ago
Razzlekhan and Wordcels
Our regular special guest, Katie Benner, recently sunk her teeth into the intersection of an old passion and a new one: technology industry ignominy …
4 years, 1 month ago
Meta Commentary (w/Alex Heath)
Last March, Alex Heath interviewed Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook’s virtual reality ambitions. Then in October, Heath broke the news for The Verge th…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Dead Cat Experience
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are pulling their music from Spotify over the company’s more than $100 million exclusive deal with popular podcaster Joe…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bobby Kotick's Call of Duty (w/Kirsten Grind)
Wall Street Journal reporter Kirsten Grind helped expose Activision Blizzard’s troubled corporate culture in a bombshell article in November, co-writ…
4 years, 2 months ago
Across the Pond (w/Ophelia Brown)
Ophelia Brown’s Blossom Capital announced Tuesday that it has raised $432 million for its third venture fund. (I told paying subscribers back in Apri…
4 years, 2 months ago
No One Wants to Spend Any Amount of Time With a Plastic Thing Strapped to Their Face (w/Phil Libin)
Phil Libin is as deeply rooted in the Silicon Valley ethos as you can find. He immigrated to the United States as a child from the Soviet Union and w…
4 years, 2 months ago
Emperor Zuck (w/Deepa Seetharaman)
Deepa Seetharaman is a longtime friend, Wall Street Journal tech reporter, and — most importantly — a committed Dead Cat podcast listener. Her ears h…
4 years, 3 months ago
Defogging Our 2021 Amnesia
Katie Benner, Tom Dotan, and Eric Newcomer look back on 2021 in Techmeme headlines for our final episode of Dead Cat for the year.
We discuss some of…
4 years, 3 months ago