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
Gloves off over privacy, from Apple to Microsoft to Grindr. PLUS Scott's big 2020 bets.
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 historically secretive National Security Agency alert…
00:44:11 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Will Casper go public? How will Softbank’s latest fail affect Asia? And how will Sundar Pichai move Google forward?
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 Scott on Softbank's latest fail: their hotel chain …
00:39:12 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Social networks' minimum effort to be less toxic, Listener Mail from Australia, and fails at CES
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's decision not to change their political ad policies. They also discuss Facebook banning "deep fakes" and Teen Vogue's confusion over a Facebook sponsored content a…
00:44:29 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Trump vs. Iran on Twitter, more on HQ2 incentives, and 'mandatory happiness'
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 Globes, but big tech took a lot of snark -- espe…
00:29:48 |
Tue 07 Jan 2020
California is regulating consumer data privacy, the gig economy revisited, and Tesla’s big stock spike.
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 protection. They also talk about Tesla's big stock …
00:50:18 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
"Friends of Pivot" breakdown the big stories of the decade
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 Bennett, Girls Who Code Founder/CEO Reshma Saujani…
00:51:17 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influence at Facebook, and prediction: “FedEx gets acquired"
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 their political ad policies. Meanwhile, SoftBank is …
00:44:33 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
What’s up with the China/US trade deal, why haven’t “smart guns” popularized, and who is going to stream the NFL?
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 Sandy Hook shooting and Kara and Scott talk about…
00:43:27 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement on encryption, and Amazon's plan for fashion
Kara and Scott talk about Congress' hearing on regulating end-to-end encryption on messaging apps. They discussJack Dorsey's tweet storm about building a small internal open source team. We get updat…
00:50:03 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
A letter to Twitter, Uber's data transparency, and Away proves startup culture is rough
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 in their rides. In fails, Kara and Scott get int…
00:46:20 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
CEO’s are out (literally), France's "digital service tax” is in, and 'innovator privilege’
Kara and Scott talk about leaderships shifts at Google -- Larry and Sergey are out and Sundar Pichai is in. In Friend of Pivot we hear from French lawyer, Dan Shefet about France's newly approved "di…
00:40:43 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
Dorsey moves to Africa and streaming platforms trump movie theaters
Welcome to Pivot 2x! Our first twice weekly episode. Kara and Scott talk about the future of Twitter as Jack Dorsey announces he's off to live in Africa. They discuss the streaming wars and how movie…
00:36:06 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
London gives Uber the boot, the billionaire's 2020 strategy, and streaming wars continue
Kara and Scott talk about Uber getting kicked out of its biggest EU market, London. They parse out the ad, media and digital strategy of Michael Bloomberg in his quest for the White House. In Friend …
00:43:31 |
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Trump lies about Apple, HBOMax fumbles its brand, Juul gets sued
Kara and Scott talk about how Apple CEO Tim Cook, let Trump get away with lying about being responsible for building a 2013 factory. They also talk about how a Facebook executive says the company wan…
00:49:17 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Big Tech wants to be your wallet and your healthcare provider. What could go wrong?
Kara and Scott talk about all the Silicon Valley companies rolling out credit cards and checking accounts. Google is also partnering with a Catholic non-profit that has clinics and hospitals around t…
00:43:55 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Twitter and the Saudis, Facebook’s 'Switcharoo', and the 2020 digital ads race
Kara and Scott talk about former Twitter employees who were spying on user data for Saudi Arabia. They also talk about a big leak of internal Facebook emails that further shows Facebook's conniving u…
00:44:48 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
Twitter will stop running political ads ... your move, Facebook
Kara and Scott celebrate Jack Dorsey announcing that Twitter will not be running political ads anymore. That puts Facebook on the spot. They talk about Kara's interview with Edward Snowden on her oth…
00:42:13 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
The screw-up-billionaire, quantum computers, and the skewering of Zuckerberg
Kara and Scott take a victory lap as SoftBank buys out Adam Neumann, the founder of weWork for a cool $1.7 billion. They talk about what the future might hold, now that Google has unveiled its quantu…
00:42:31 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
Mark Zuckerberg the free speech jester, and Marc Benioff the class traitor
Kara and Scott met up at Stanford University (where they were both rejected from) for a live Pivot! They talk about the decline of applicants to elite M.B.A. programs, free speech in China and how Zu…
00:58:42 |
Wed 23 Oct 2019
LIVE at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC!
Kara and Scott meet up at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC. And we make a special announcement...wait for it... WE'RE GOING TO 2 DAYS A WEEK! BOOM! They also talk about the likelihood that weWork has layo…
00:38:01 |
Fri 18 Oct 2019
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