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Every Tuesday and Friday, tech journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. After all, with great power comes great scrutiny. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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The debate after the debate (Kara and Scott assess Nevada), Bezos and Buffet: who is the “better” billionaire and a big prediction on Zoom

Episode Date: February 21, 2020

Kara and Scott have a lot of thoughts about the Nevada debate and how the candidates should be marketing themselves. In Listener Mail, we get a questi...

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The EU takes on AI, the US vs. Huawei continues, Airbnb is in the red, and a Friend of Pivot on your children’s data privacy

Episode Date: February 18, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about the big players in Silicon Valley headed to the EU where they are debating new regulations on artificial intelligence. In mo...

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Amazon pays taxes (and fights for JEDI), SoftBank gains on Sprint and what ClassPass tells us about the fitness economy

Episode Date: February 14, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about what it means for Amazon to be paying (minimal) taxes, as Jeff Bezos is "going Hollywood", and the company battles with the...

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The Oscars' rebrand, Uber’s ‘yoga babble’ earnings call, and Friend of Pivot Andrew Ross Sorkin calls Instagram the 'Super App'

Episode Date: February 11, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about The Oscar's and how the award is being rebranded. They discuss Uber's most recent earnings call and whether or not they'll a...

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Tech meltdown in Iowa, Sheryl Sandberg’s engagement (Kara and Scott debate), One Medical and US healthcare disruption and a Tesla prediction

Episode Date: February 7, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about technical difficulties at the Iowa caucuses. They disagree about whether Sheryl Sandberg's engagement announcement was a PR...

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IBM leadership shuffle, Amazon earnings, plus "Friend of Pivot” Jon Lovett pops in from Iowa to talk Trump’s inevitable ad operation

Episode Date: February 4, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about IBM's new CEO as the company struggles to keep up with cloud computing. They also discuss Zuckerberg's "new approach to soci...

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US budget deficit will hit $1-trillion; AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, FB earnings breakdown; and Britain sides with China on Huawei

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about the Congressional Budget Office projecting that the U.S. budget deficit will pass the $1 trillion threshold in 2020. They al...

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Kara’s back in action; a listener question on WeWork’s impact on co-working companies, and a pop culture quiz

Episode Date: January 28, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about the spread of coronavirus and how it is affecting China. They discuss how the story of Kobe Bryant's tragic death played out...

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Bezos vs. the world, retail in India and Scott’s earnings predictions

Episode Date: January 24, 2020

Scott co-hosts with Erica Anderson (Pivot's indomitable Executive Producer!) and they talk about the Saudi's hacking Jeff Bezos' phone. They talk abou...

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Trillion dollar companies and tax season; how the “Black List” shapes Hollywood’s big business… and is podcasting coming for radio dollars?

Episode Date: January 21, 2020

Kara talk about Google becoming the world's fourth trillion-dollar company ... and who is actually paying taxes on all of it? They discuss world leade...

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Gloves off over privacy, from Apple to Microsoft to Grindr. PLUS Scott's big 2020 bets.

Episode Date: January 17, 2020

Kara and Scott argue about whether the government should have the right to hack into phones of suspected criminals. In a reversal of strategy the hist...

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Will Casper go public? How will Softbank’s latest fail affect Asia? And how will Sundar Pichai move Google forward?

Episode Date: January 14, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about Casper's S-1 and how it compares to other internet retail companies like Away and Warby Parker. We also get a rant out of Sc...

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Social networks' minimum effort to be less toxic, Listener Mail from Australia, and fails at CES

Episode Date: January 10, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's decision not to change their political ad policies. They also discuss Facebook banning "deep fakes" and Teen Vogu...

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Trump vs. Iran on Twitter, more on HQ2 incentives, and 'mandatory happiness'

Episode Date: January 7, 2020

Kara and Scott talk about how Trump has been escalating US conflict with Iran on Twitter. They also discuss how politics were downplayed at the Golden...

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California is regulating consumer data privacy, the gig economy revisited, and Tesla’s big stock spike.

Episode Date: January 3, 2020

Kara and Scott are back to talk about a suite of new regulations in California that will give consumers agency over their data and gig workers more pr...

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"Friends of Pivot" breakdown the big stories of the decade

Episode Date: December 27, 2019

Kara and Scott look back at the 2010s and the biggest stories of the decade with the help of some friends. With cameos from Colorado Senator Michael B...

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Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influence at Facebook, and prediction: “FedEx gets acquired"

Episode Date: December 20, 2019

Kara and Scott talk about what impeachment might mean for business. Also they talk about Peter Thiel's influence behind the scenes at Facebook and the...

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What’s up with the China/US trade deal, why haven’t “smart guns” popularized, and who is going to stream the NFL?

Episode Date: December 17, 2019

Kara and Scott talk about the "Phase One" trade agreement between the US and China and what it means for big tech. It's the anniversary of the tragic...

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Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement on encryption, and Amazon's plan for fashion

Episode Date: December 13, 2019

Kara and Scott talk about Congress' hearing on regulating end-to-end encryption on messaging apps. They discussJack Dorsey's tweet storm about buildin...

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A letter to Twitter, Uber's data transparency, and Away proves startup culture is rough

Episode Date: December 10, 2019

Kara and Scott talk about a letter Scott wrote to the board about concerns at Twitter. They discuss Uber's data report on sexual assault that occurred...

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