Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on his $2.7 billion Meredith deal
Neil Vogel had no publishing experience before he took over About.com, the how-to website he turned into Dotdash for owner Barry Diller. Now Vogel is about to become one of the most powerful people in...
21 Okt 202132min
Land of the Giants: "He's No Steve Jobs"
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and infused it with his love of product design and attention to detail. His successor, Tim Cook, is widely perceived as lacking Jobs’ vision and innovation. But he managed ...
14 Okt 202137min
Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant
Five days after the New York Times’ Ben Smith wrote an astonishing piece about the fakery supporting Ozy Media, the digital publisher announced it was shutting down. What, if anything, does the fiasco...
7 Okt 202151min
Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?
More consolidation in Hollywood - but this time it’s talent agency CAA buying rival ICM. Puck’s Dylan Byers sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to explain why the streaming boom has created another me...
30 Sep 202131min
How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin
Peter Thiel used to be a Silicon Valley investor best-known for early investment in Facebook. But in recent years he seems to have shifted into something different: A Trump-supporting billionaire who ...
23 Sep 202155min
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on teenagers, Tik-Tok and paying creators
Instagram is no longer going to be a photo-sharing app, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri announced earlier this summer. So what is Instagram going to be instead? Mosseri talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about...
16 Sep 20211h 5min
Big changes at Apple: New phones, new AR glasses, and big app store changes.
Mark Gurman has been one of the best-sourced Apple reporters since he was in high school. Literally. Now he’s at Bloomberg, with deep insight into Apple’s new product line - new iPhones this year, new...
9 Sep 202143min
Defector Media: Life after Deadspin is good (and profitable)
Defector Media launched a year ago as a digital publishing experiment: What if the former staff of Deadspin built and owned their own site, fueled entirely by subscriptions? Now it looks like we have ...
2 Sep 202136min
