Podcast Episodes

On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey

Here’s one where we try to do two things at once:

Have a convo about green shoots in media with two smart guys who know media really well — Semafo…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q

Scott Frank used to write great movies, like “Out of Sight.” Now he’s a Netflix guy, and a super successful one: he made “Godless,” a horses-and-ever…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.

I admit it: I most definitely rolled my eyes in 2019, when Twitter announced vague plans to build an "open and decentralized standard for social medi…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond

Today we’re talking about how you take a media property that’s been around for a long time, and find a way to bring in new eyeballs — and new revenue…

11 months ago

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Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads

Adam Mosseri's official title is head of Instagram, Meta's massive photo and video app. He also runs Threads, the Twitter clone the company launched …

11 months, 1 week ago

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How Apple trapped itself in China

The iPhone you’re reading this on was made in China.

For a long time, that fact was a huge part of Apple’s success story: Working hand-in-hand, Appl…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet

I wanted to talk to Ian Rogers about his fascinating career. He wanted to talk to me about Ledger, the crypto wallet company he’s working at now.

So…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

Today's podcast is an in-depth discussion of Apple's App Store rules and how they... wait! Don't leave!

I could try to tell you why Apple's App Stor…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen to ads in 2025?

There are all kinds of ways to measure the health of an economy. The one I rely on is ad spending.

One reason for that is simple: I work in ad-suppor…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.

Every day some 85 million people - most of them kids - show up to play, chat and spend money on Roblox. That’s a massive audience just about any tech…

1 year ago

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