115 - Should Big Tech Break Up? Plus, Playwright Dominique Morisseau
Have tech companies gotten so big that it’s bad for the economy? Senator Elizabeth Warren says so. She’s proposing to break up not one, but several tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and G...
16 Mar 201941min
114 - Fortnite vs. Apex Legends, Plus Ciena CEO Gary Smith
You’ve probably heard of Fortnite. It’s a game and more than a game – a cultural moment that’s swept in with all the force of Pokémon Go, and arguably more of the staying power. There’s the game itsel...
9 Mar 201957min
113 - Opening Tech: The Diversity Challenge. With Anu Duggal, Female Founders Fund; Kathryn Finney, Digital Undivided; Ruben Harris, Career Karma
There’s little question that technology – software – is shaping the future of our work, our play, and even how we form opinions. But who is shaping that technology? It’s been quite an economic run. T...
2 Mar 201926min
112 - Amazon Leaves NYC: Good or Bad? With Anand Giridharadas and Robert Frank
So long, New York! Amazon has pulled out of its commitment to build a massive campus and bring 25,000 to 40,000 high-paying jobs to Long Island City in Queens. On Valentines Day! Roses are red / viol...
16 Feb 201930min
111 - Is Facebook Really That Bad? Roger McNamee and Antonio Garcia Martinez
Facebook is worth almost a half trillion dollars. It has more than 2 billion users who log in at least once a month. It has a famous CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, hailed in Silicon Valley as a Bill Gates for ...
9 Feb 201929min
110 - #Nevertweet: Time to Cut Back on Social? Farhad Manjoo, Jeff Jarvis, Chris Moody, Jaron Lanier
Apple this week pulled a Facebook app from the App Store. It’s called Facebook Research, and its purpose was to let Facebook watch everything that users did on the phone. Apple says the snooping app i...
2 Feb 201931min
109 - Fender CEO Andy Mooney; Plus, in the Netflix Era, What Makes a Show Valuable?
He did this the hard way – grew up playing guitar in a band, skipped college, became an accountant by testing into the profession and, after he got into the corporate world, made a lateral move into m...
26 Jan 201956min
108 - Behance Founder Scott Belsky; Plus, Walter Isaacson and Jim Stewart on the Future of Journalism
Scott Belsky didn’t drop out of college, didn’t go straight into being an entrepreneur – he had an idea about what a certain group of customers needed, and he kept tweaking his approach until he built...
21 Jan 20191h
