Pivot
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.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 700
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Meta Joins the A.I. Race, More Twitter Cuts, and Guest Malcolm Harris
Dilbert is out of work after his creator made racist remarks. House Republicans are launching an investigation into the toxic train derailment in Ohio. Also, Twitter has cut staff yet again, and prom…
01:15:01 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Meta Verified, SCOTUS, and the Future of the Internet
Kara and Scott discuss Don Lemon's troubling comments, the high cost of shooting down UFOs, and Amazon sealing the deal with One Medical. Also, Elon Musk and Tesla return to California. Plus, Mark Zu…
00:59:18 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
America’s Progress Has Stalled — with Derek Thompson | The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Happy President's Day! Pivot will return on Friday. Today, an episode from our other favorite podcast: The Prof G Pod.
Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic and host of the Plain English pod…
00:48:21 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
Elon’s Timeline Takeover, Bing’s AI Freakout, and the Sordid Affairs of Sumner Redstone
A week of surprising resignations: the FTC’s lone Republican commissioner announced her departure in the Wall Street Journal, and Scotland’s First Minister will step down after drama around a transge…
01:13:17 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
UFOs, The State of Tech, and Guest Lakshmi Rengarajan
Kara and Scott talk Super Bowl ads and legacy blue check wars. And what on Earth (or Mars?) is the deal with all of these UFOs? Plus, the state of Big Tech: the layoffs, the opportunities, the A.I. A…
01:16:09 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
AI Blunders, The GOP Cries Censorship, and Adam Neumann’s Comeback
Kara and Scott discuss the latest changes at Disney, including layoffs, and the expensive mistake made by Google's chatbot. Also in the mix: Adam Neumann is back, and has invented apartments! Plus, h…
01:00:55 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
Balloon-Gate, The AI Arms Race, and Guest Jerry Saltz
Kara and Scott discuss Google's newest effort to compete with ChatGPT, the Koch network's anti-Trump efforts, and the latest on Elon Musk’s many legal battles. Plus, of course, the fallout from the C…
01:16:52 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
Meta Shakes Off the FTC, and AAG Jonathan Kanter takes on Google
The Fed eases up on the brakes, Elon Musk looks for new ways to monetize Twitter, and Snap has another rough quarter. Also: Meta may have prevailed in a fight with the FTC. Today’s Friend of Pivot is…
01:26:13 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Sick Day! Tinder Changed the Game - from Land of the Giants: Dating Games
Today Kara’s out sick and we’re sharing an episode of Land of the Giants.
When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone a…
00:36:23 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Trump is Back on Meta, The DOJ Sues Google, and No More Murdoch Merger
Kara and Scott discuss the Bad Blood between the Senate Judiciary Committee and Live Nation, Walmart giving workers a raise, and the cancelled Murdoch merger of Fox and News Corp. Also, will you see …
00:49:35 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Netflix Shakeup, More Tech Layoffs, and Guest Cory Doctorow
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course…
01:12:16 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Microsoft's Hard Landing, Bitcoin Bounces Back, and Inside Twitter with Zoe Schiffer
Kara and Scott discuss Microsoft layoffs, cryptocurrency’s surprising recovery, and Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. Plus, someone bought a Twitter bird statue for $100k, and it wasn’t Kara. Friend of P…
01:08:01 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Live from London: Recession Calling?
Kara and Scott visit London's "new Palo Alto" for a live discussion on Tim Cook's pay cut, Prince Harry's memoir "Spare," and what European regulation means for social media users. Also, banking's bi…
01:15:50 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Live from DLD: Microsoft's AI Future and the FAA Meltdown
At Munich's Digital-Life-Design conference, Kara and Scott unpack EU tech regulations, Tesla's many challenges (including Twitter), and OpenAI's future in Microsoft products. Also, what the latest ai…
00:50:41 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
The New McCarthy Era, A.I. on the Rise, and Guest Mike Allen
Kara and Scott are back together! They discuss the new power balance in Congress, how A.I. will and won't transform, and a potential ban on non-compete clauses. Plus, Jack Ma will give up control of …
01:11:28 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
House Arrest, Meta Fined Over Fine Print, and More...with Audie Cornish
CNN's Audie Cornish joins Kara as guest co-host with plenty to cover: the Republican disarray in the Speaker of the House vote, the E.U. fining Meta for privacy violations, and Twitter allowing polit…
01:05:49 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
State of Play: Inflation, Recession Signals, and the Housing Market — with Mark Zandi - The Prof G Pod
Today we're sharing an episode of The Prof G Pod, Scott Galloway's other favorite podcast. Enjoy!
Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics joins to discuss the economy, including geopolit…
00:39:50 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
Elon Musk: Somebody That I Used to Know - On with Kara Swisher
Today we're sharing an episode of On with Kara Swisher - her other favorite podcat.
Elon Musk is a puzzle, but if there’s anyone who can make sense of him it’s Kara Swisher. She’s covered him since t…
01:05:44 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Elon, SBF, AI and What the Hell is Up in Tech? - On with Kara Swisher
Enjoy this episode of On with Kara Swisher!
From the high speed train wreck at Twitter to the extradition of a fallen crypto kingpin and an AI that can rewrite your dating profile, there’s a lot happ…
00:54:34 |
Tue 27 Dec 2022
2022: Pivot's Year in Review
We're looking back at the BIGGEST stories of the year. And what a year! When 2022 began, Russia enjoyed somewhat normal relations with the West, many Covid measures were still in place, Queen Elizabe…
00:52:45 |
Fri 23 Dec 2022
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