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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Politics
Business News
Investing
News
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 441
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon
Elaine Kwon was a vendor manager in Amazon's retail organization when the company started to turn her tasks over to machine learning in a program called "Hands Off The Wheel." She joins Big Technolog…
00:48:41 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
The Uneasy Amazon Coalition, With Fulfillment Author Alec MacGillis
ProPublica senior reporter Alec MacGillis highlights the growing economic divide in the U.S. — through the lens of Amazon — in his new book, Fulfillment. MacGillis joins Big Technology Podcast to dis…
00:54:39 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on The Criticism of Tech Criticism
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat are two of the most prominent Facebook critics worldwide. Cadwalladr is the journalist who broke open the Cambridge Analytica story for the Guardian and The Obser…
01:10:01 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan on the "Zoom Class," NFTs, and San Francisco
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan has long covered the way society interacts with technology. He joins Big Technology Podcast this week to discuss the “Zoom Class,” the rise of NFTs, and how S…
00:51:47 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
Why Rest of World wants to change international tech news, with Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis
Rest Of World is a new publication that covers technology outside of North America and Europe. Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis join Big Technology Podcast to discuss why they believe it's setting …
00:50:42 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
Bonus: Senator Amy Klobuchar On How Congress Will Take On Big Tech
Senator Amy Klobuchar will be leading the charge in Congress as the legislature interrogates the power of big tech, and potentially takes action to restrain it. She's the new Chairwoman of the Senate…
00:19:40 |
Sat 13 Mar 2021
Twitter Product Head Kayvon Beykpour On The Story Behind Twitter’s Revival
Kayvon Beykpour is one of Silicon Valley’s busiest product executives. As Twitter’s head of product, he’s survived for years in a formerly-cursed role that seemed to turn over every few months. Now, …
00:55:55 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? A Conversation with Kevin Roose, NYT Columnist and Futureproof author
Artificial intelligence may take our jobs, or it may give us new freedom in the workplace. The debate is heating up as this technology is starting to enter the workplace in a real way. New York Times…
00:53:41 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart on Privacy, Content Moderation, and Apple
Will Cathcart runs WhatsApp, the 2 billion user app that's the de facto tool for messaging and calling for many across the globe. Cathcart joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Facebook's feud with…
00:50:01 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
In 2011, Wael Ghonim created a Facebook page that sparked the overthrow of the Egyptian regime. Since then, the former Google marketing director has kept a close eye on social media's evolution, and …
01:12:35 |
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Three Mayors On The Future Of Tech in the U.S.
Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway of Madison, and Mayor Steve Adler of Austin join Big Technology Podcast to discuss the future of tech in the U.S.
They’re showing up on a tec…
01:05:57 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Bonus: India vs. Twitter, with Pranav Dixit of BuzzFeed News
In India, the Narendra Modi government is threatening to put Twitter officials in jail unless they block approximately 250 accounts of people they don’t like. They include activists, political commen…
00:47:41 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Will Amazon Be Kinder After Jeff Bezos? A Conversation With Recode's Jason Del Rey
Jeff Bezos is headed for the door at Amazon, and because 2021 is the craziest news year on record, we mostly haven’t stopped to consider this seismic story and what it means for the business world.
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00:26:32 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Glenn Greenwald on Substack, Content Moderation, and Joe Rogan
In January, I wrote a story for OneZero about the content moderation war in store for smaller social platforms like Clubhouse, Spotify, and Substack. As part of my reporting, I reached out to Glenn G…
00:38:39 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Emergency Podcast: The Story Behind Gamestop, A Conversation With Ranjan Roy of Margins
Ranjan Roy has documented the fundamental issues driving today's market volatility, from Zero Interest Rate Policy to the rise of Robinhood. He joins Big Technology Podcast for an emergency episode o…
00:54:32 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
The U.S. and Tech After Trump: A Conversation With the Realignment's Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti
Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti, hosts of the hit podcast The Realignment, speak about the shifting state of U.S. politics on their show each week. And while they focus on political change, they s…
01:08:15 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Under Biden, Bipartisan Vengeance On Social Media? A Conversation With Bradley Tusk
As Joe Biden takes office, big tech’s rough and tumble four years under Donald Trump will not come to an end. Democrats and Republicans, each for their own reasons, will now be looking to exact venge…
00:59:45 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Should Facebook and Twitter Have Banned Donald Trump? A Conversation With Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News
Over the past week, both Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump’s account. These companies don’t take such aggressive action lightly, and it took Trump sending a mob toward the U.S. Ca…
01:13:29 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Does YouTube Radicalize? A Debate Between NYT's Kevin Roose and Software Engineer Mark Ledwich
In June 2019, New York Times reporter Kevin Roose wrote The Making of a YouTube Radical, a story about how a 26-year-old man, Caleb Cain, was radicalized through YouTube. For the story, Roose examine…
01:00:59 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Cult Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross On NXIVM, QAnon, and What Makes Us Vulnerable
Community as we know it is in a state of decline. People today have fewer friendships than ever, they are lonelier than ever, and religious participation is at an all-time low, with 23% of people in …
00:53:23 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
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