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
- 441
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Can We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is the founder of Meetup, a website that connects people online and gets them to meet each other offline. Heiferman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the internet can st…
00:51:50 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
The Motivations Of Facebook Reporters, And Their Sources — With Ugly Truth Author Sheera Frenkel
Sheera Frenkel is a New York Times reporter and author of the best-selling book, An Ugly Truth. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss her hit book and her reporting process. We address critics'…
00:43:01 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
The Risks of TikTok's Rise — With Bloomberg's Shelly Banjo
Shelly Banjo is Bloomberg's New York Bureau Chief. She's also the host of Foundering, a podcast mini-series that documents TikTok's rise. Banjo joins Big Technology Podcast for a conversation about h…
00:57:07 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Regime Change In Cuba, Through Internet Access? — With FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wants to provide internet access to the people in Cuba so they can document and share the abuses of their government without censorship. Commissioner Carr, who rose to h…
00:47:18 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
The Definitive WeWork Story — With Eliot Brown And Maureen Farrell
Eliot Brown And Maureen Farrell are the authors of The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion. The new book digs into the rise and fall of Adam Neumann's WeWork. And though it's the story…
01:13:30 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Newsletters and The Culture Wars — With Substack CEO Chris Best
Chris Best is the CEO of Substack, an email newsletter platform that lets writers send newsletters and charge subscribers a monthly fee. The platform — which I use for my Big Technology newsletter — …
01:02:55 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
She Advocated For Women, Then Microsoft Pushed Her Off Its Board — With Maria Klawe
“Are you trying to fucking destroy the company?” That’s what Bill Gates told Microsoft board member Maria Klawe when she asked why Microsoft wouldn’t consider a single women out of 50 candidates it w…
01:01:02 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
How Gen Z Dates Online — With Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone
Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Tinder. He took over the world’s most popular dating app last summer, in the heart of the pandemic, and is starting to evolve its product to give people new ways to connect.…
00:56:07 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
How Big Tech Influence Shops Shape The Antitrust Conversation In Washington — with Adam Kovacevich
Adam Kovacevich is the CEO of the Big Tech-funded Chamber of Progress. The former Google policy executive joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the origins of his organization and why Big Tech woul…
00:51:58 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Crossover With The Realignment: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught?
Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti host The Realignment, an excellent podcast about politics and tech in our fast-changing world.
I joined the show his week to talk about the new set of bills in Con…
01:08:24 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC, founder and editor of Dealbook at the New York Times, and the author of Too Big To Fail. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the wild…
01:10:05 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Breaks Goes Independent
Andrew Callaghan is the force behind All Gas No Breaks, a hit YouTube show that featured Callaghan putting a mic in front of people and just... letting them talk. Callaghan's recently gone independen…
00:46:26 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
The Rise and Fall of Juul, With The Devil's Playbook Author Lauren Etter
You've heard this story before: Two Stanford kids take on a big bad industry, one that harms people, and they disrupt it. Typically, these stories are portrayed as heroic in Silicon Valley. Yet the s…
01:05:18 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
New York Times Reporter Jack Nicas On Apple Vs. Epic Games and Apple In China
Jack Nicas joins Big Technology Podcast fresh out of the Epic v. Apple trial, where the Fortnight maker is suing Apple over the 30% cut it takes out of every dollar we spend on apps downloaded from t…
00:52:00 |
Wed 26 May 2021
Professor Scott Galloway On Whether Our Economy Is Rigged (And What To Do About It)
Professor Scott Galloway swings by to discuss how our economy can at once feel rigged yet loaded with opportunity. Galloway describes a “tilted” system that makes life difficult for young people and …
00:49:35 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Amazon Unbound Author Brad Stone On How Nerdy Bezos Turned Into Ripped Bezos
Brad Stone is the author of Amazon Unbound, a new book about the inner workings of Amazon, which releases this week. Stone joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the book, Bezos's transformation, Am…
00:44:26 |
Wed 12 May 2021
Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
Sridhar Ramaswamy is CEO of Neeva, an ads-free search engine he helped found after running Google's ads and commerce business. Ramaswamy spent seventeen years inside Google, and eventually grew disil…
00:55:59 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Facebook Oversight Board Member Julie Owono Takes Us Inside The Trump Decision
Julie Owono is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board, which today announced it's leaving Donald Trump's indefinite suspension in place. Owono joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the decision, …
00:42:25 |
Wed 05 May 2021
Doge, Bitcoin, NFTs, and Capital Gains: Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk of Margins Demystify Our Economy
Today's economy is a wild ride, and it's time to demystify it with Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk from Margins. Consider the following: Doge, a joke cryptocurrency, seems to be minting new millionaires dai…
01:09:46 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Facebook vs. Clubhouse vs. Spotify vs. Apple: Casey Newton Returns
Platformer's Casey Newton returns to Big Technology Podcast to discuss the intensifying battle among Facebook, Clubhouse, Spotify, Apple, and Twitter in the new, social audio space. Fresh off a conve…
00:50:06 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
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