Big Technology Podcast
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 442
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Web3 And The Future Of The Internet — With Box CEO Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box, a $3.95 billion publicly-traded tech company. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the rise of Web3 — a crypto-based vision for the internet — and where it can go…
01:01:16 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
2021 In Review, 2022 Predictions — With Casey Newton
Casey Newton is the editor of Platformer, a CNBC Contributor, and a friend of Big Technology Podcast. He joins us for our final show of the year, where we look back on the biggest stories of 2021 and…
00:53:36 |
Wed 29 Dec 2021
The Theranos Trial Concludes — With NPR's Bobby Allyn
Bobby Allyn is an NPR tech reporter based in San Francisco. He's been waking up at 2 a.m. to watch the trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the courthouse. In this episode, Allyn breaks dow…
00:59:53 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Apple Nears $3 Trillion + The Truth About Web3 — With Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans is an independent analyst who covers big tech and the broader technology landscape. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Apple's move to $3 trillion, how the rest of the Big Tech…
01:17:11 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Getting AI To Think And Learn Like Humans — With Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun
Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel prize-winning psychologist and economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a landmark book that decodes human decision-making. Yann LeCun is the chief AI scientist at …
01:09:24 |
Wed 08 Dec 2021
Managing Omicron With Data From Wastewater? — With Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus of Biobot Analytics
As companies head back to the office, and communities try to figure out the right Covid mitigation measures, data from sewage can help them get it right. Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus are the co-fo…
01:00:08 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Inflation and The Great Resignation — With SoFi Head of Investment Strategy Liz Young and Margins’ Ranjan Roy
Inflation is skyrocketing and everyone’s quitting their jobs. What does it mean? Liz Young, the head of Investment Strategy at SoFi, and Ranjan Roy, the co-author of Margins, help us figure it out in…
00:56:50 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Inside Spotify's War With Apple — With Spotify Chief Legal Officer Horacio Gutierrez
Horacio Gutierrez is Spotify's head of global affairs and chief legal officer. He's a relentless critic of the way Apple treats smaller companies, testifying before the Senate in April that the compa…
01:01:59 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
The Venture Capitalist Who Can't Lose — With Zach Coelius
Zach Coelius is the managing partner of Coelius Capital. He's participating in an unprecedented moment where venture capitalists like him simply can't lose. There's so much money flooding the private…
01:10:42 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
The Motivations of Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen — With Her Lawyer Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is Frances Haguen's lawyer and a Harvard Law School professor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to address the various questions about Haugen's motivations, backers, and intent that ha…
01:00:32 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
Are We Having a Moral Panic About Instagram? — With NYT's Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo is an opinion columnist for the New York Times. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the criticism of Instagram's impact on kids is overblown, the subject of a recent colu…
01:04:29 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Amazon Rigs Search, Social Media 'Ampliganda,' Netflix Protests — With Adrianne Jeffries, Renee DiResta, and Zoë Schiffer
Join us for a 'mega' episode with three guests! The Markup investigative reporter Adrianne Jeffries leads off with a discussion of Amazon's self-preferencing in search. Stanford Internet Observatory'…
01:21:35 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Is Social Media A Scapegoat For Bigger Problems? — With Charlie Warzel at Unfinished Live
Charlie Warzel writes the Galaxy Brain newsletter on Substack, a publication he started after a career at The New York Times and BuzzFeed. Warzel joins Big Technology Podcast in a live recording at U…
00:41:58 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Why Facebook Will Keep Building For Kids — With Michael Sayman
Michael Sayman was 16 years old when Facebook recruited him to join the company. The overture arrived as he was sitting in math class, and the teacher promptly took away his iPad. Sayman joins Big Te…
01:00:48 |
Wed 06 Oct 2021
Amazon Builds a Robot and Threatens Apple — With Wired's Lauren Goode
Wired senior writer Lauren Goode was on hand this week as Amazon introduced Astro, a home robot, and a Ring home-monitoring drone. Goode joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss her reaction to the pr…
00:45:42 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
Max Chafkin is the author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, which debuts this week. The book is a fascinating, inside look into the life and rise of Silicon Valley…
01:21:57 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
A Look Into Facebook's Soul — With WSJ's Jeff Horwitz and Ex-FB Exec. Brian Boland
Jeff Horwitz is the Wall Street Journal reporter who unearthed a trove of internal Facebook documents that reveal a damning disconnect between what the company says in public and its actions inside. …
00:57:41 |
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Inside The Theranos Trial — With Erin Griffith of The New York Times
Erin Griffith is the New York Times reporter at the trial for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. She joins Big Technology Podcast to bring us inside the courtroom, explaining why Holmes is on trial a…
00:54:03 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
How The Music Industry Predicts The Future — With Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Zack O'Malley Greenburg is a music journalist who's spent time with everyone from Katy Perry to Kanye West. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the music industry seems to go through every…
01:00:33 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
The Platform Delusion — With Columbia Business Professor Jonathan Knee
Jonathan Knee is a professor at Columbia Business School and senior advisor at the investment bank Evercore. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss The Platform Delusion, his forthcoming book abo…
00:54:33 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
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