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
Going after venture capital culture and the unicorn industrial complex
Kara and Scott talk about feuds with VC's, billionaires paying fewer taxes than the working class and tech companies folding to Chinese state media pressure. They take a listener mail question about …
00:42:24 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Mark Zuckerberg’s leaky staff and the silver lining to WeWork’s downfall
Someone inside Facebook secretly recorded Mark Zuckerberg for two hours and sent the audio to The Verge’s Casey Newton; Kara interviews Casey about his scoop and gets Scott’s take on Zuckerberg’s app…
00:46:00 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
LIVE from Toronto, Kara and Scott go international!
Kara and Scott are live at the Elevate in Toronto -- Pivot's first international appearance! They talk about the continued implosion at weWork and CEO Adam Neumann stepping down. They ask -- have we …
00:57:31 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
Uber is 'disruptive and drunk', weWork is 'just drunk', and Pivot turns 1!
Happy 1st anniversary to Pivot! Kara and Scott talk about weWork's halted IPO (we'll take partial credit). They talk about Amazon manipulating its algorithm to present more of its own products in sea…
00:46:40 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
'I love Amazon. Let's break it up'
Scott joins Land of the Giants host, Jason Del Rey, live on stage at the Code Commerce conference in New York City. Scott tells Jason that Amazon needs to be broken up - and which parts of the compan…
00:27:59 |
Wed 18 Sep 2019
LIVE! From the Lesbians Who Tech Summit
Kara and Scott talk at the annual Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City. Scott is dubbed a #LezBro. They discuss 48 state AG's putting forth an antitrust probe into Google. They love it. Kara com…
00:57:06 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Is Uber super f*cked? Let’s ask “Super Pumped” author Mike Isaac
Kara and Scott bring on NYTimes reporter, Mike Isaac, to talk about his new book "Super Pumped: the Battle for Uber". They pick his brain about all the Silicon Valley drama around the ride-share comp…
00:42:39 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Peloton “sells happiness” and bedbugs take over Twitter
Kara and Scott talk Peloton's S-1 ... is it the WeWork of exercise or an innovation in happiness? They also talk about Facebook's newest attempt to undercut Snapchat. Kara's fail is journalists who c…
00:45:23 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
DoorDash is still stealing tips. And is Tesla for sale?
Kara and Scott are back in the studio to talk about Trump bringing foreign policy to Twitter, state AG's taking on big tech and Tesla possibly being bought by Volkswagen (what a world!) Meanwhile, Sc…
00:41:53 |
Fri 23 Aug 2019
LIVE! From NYC it's Kara and Scott
Kara and Scott meet up in New York City for an extra, unfiltered Pivot in front of a live audience. They recap some of the news already happening this week like "The Business Roundtable" redefining t…
01:10:13 |
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Sharks, WeWork & Tumblr's tumble from grace
Kara and Scott take on sharks, summer in New England, WeWork's IPO and Tumblr's fall. They also talk about how trade-wars with China are slowing down tech. Scott had a win this week when Nike added a…
00:49:25 |
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Hate on 8chan and why Scott's not quitting Equinox
Kara and Scott talk about Cloudfare dropping 8chan after its latest link to domestic terrorism and hate speech. They also talk about SoulCycle and Equinox's links to the Trump campaign. Kara's ready …
00:38:07 |
Fri 09 Aug 2019
Facebook wants to read your mind. What could possibly go wrong?
Kara and Scott talk about the debates and how questions about big tech...well, didn't really come up. They also talk about Amazon and Apple earnings and how "wearables" are having a moment. In wins w…
00:32:15 |
Fri 02 Aug 2019
The Mueller hearing, Facebook's fine, and revisiting The Case of Al Franken
This week, your hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway revisit the democratic presidential nominee race, and talk about the Mueller hearing. In wins and fails, they talk about revisiting controversies…
00:42:16 |
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Peter Thiel is Pennywise, Trump's racist tweets, and Kara meets the Yang Gang
This week, Scott wants to scoop on all of Kara's interviews with presidential candidates. Then, Scott and Kara chat Facebook's measly $5 billion fine and Disney's massive staying power.
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00:33:07 |
Fri 19 Jul 2019
Epstein's Out, Rapinoe's In, Plus a Social Media-Less Summit
This week Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway are together in D.C.; we repeat: they are together in D.C.! They chat Jeffrey Epstein and double jeopardy, President Trump's social media summit (where no ma…
00:32:50 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Fish and Chips and Biden and Harris and Reddit and Twitter
This week, Kara calls in from London! In addition to their excitement for the Women's World Cup, Scott and Kara talk about Zuckerberg's Aspen interview, the Democratic primary debates, and Twitter's …
00:42:02 |
Fri 05 Jul 2019
TikTok, Time's Up on Facebook's Content Moderation Sites
When Scott Galloway is away, Kara Swisher will play... with The Verge's Casey Newton! This week, Kara and Casey get down and dirty about Bodies in Seats, Casey's exposé on the terrible conditions ins…
00:30:59 |
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Facebook's New Money and Slack's New Valuation
This week, Kara is in New York! And Scott's in... France? So close yet so far as usual, our hosts chat about Facebook's venture into cryptocurrency, Tim Cook's Stanford commencement speech, and YouTu…
00:36:20 |
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Pivot LIVE! From the 2019 Code Conference
This week's Pivot is live from the Code Conference in Arizona. Kara and Scott talk regulations for the tech industry and why we need more female CEOs so we don't feel bad about firing the bad ones. A…
00:38:56 |
Fri 14 Jun 2019
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