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
Cook vs. Zuckerberg vs. consumer privacy
Kara and Scott talk about Apple and Facebook's latest gaffes and how Apple might be the only force left regulating Facebook. There's a-latte to say about Howard Schultz's presidential ambitions. Nanc…
00:34:26 |
Fri 01 Feb 2019
MAGA teens, Fyre Fest and Twitter wars
Kara and Scott talk about how Twitter duped us all again. Scott is fresh off a conference where both he and Sheryl Sandberg talked about the future of Facebook (spoiler alert: they have very differen…
00:38:39 |
Fri 25 Jan 2019
"Woke" is the 2019 business strategy
Kara and Scott are back together again! This week they catch up on Jeff Bezos' divorce and his not so hot texting skills (hey alive girls!). We're pretty sure Gillette listens to Pivot because they t…
00:40:16 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Tech addiction and how it might be ruining Gen Z
Scott brings on a guest-host, his NYU colleague and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt.
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00:38:16 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Why the “Fakakta Shutdown” is slowing tech regulation even further
Kara brings on guest host Jon Lovett (Pod Save America) to talk about the government shut down, the new Congress and how it all might shake out for big tech.
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00:45:29 |
Fri 04 Jan 2019
2018's biggest stories and 2019 predictions
Kara and Scott talk about some of the biggest stories in tech and business of the past year. They also make some big predictions for 2019.
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00:34:37 |
Fri 28 Dec 2018
Facebook’s latest scandal and the "tyranny of technology"
Kara and Scott breakdown yet another Facebook scandal. This time, it turns out Facebook was passing on private user message data to partners like Netflix and Spotify.
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00:28:29 |
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Google doesn't make iPhones, and other things Congress learned this week
Kara and Scott talk about Google's CEO testifying to Congress. The company is being evasive about its controversial search engine in China. But on the other hand, some US Representatives didn't know …
00:31:29 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
The U.K. piles on Facebook
Kara and Scott talk about the latest dump of emails exposing Facebook management’s malfeasance, but Scott thinks it’s just the U.K. piling on.
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00:32:13 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Microsoft is more valuable than Apple again. Why?
Kara and Scott talk about Microsoft surpassing Apple. They also come to an agreement that “Republicans buy football teams and Democrats buy media properties”. In case you missed some recent headlines…
00:35:40 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
It's time for Facebook's board to step up
Kara and Scott talk about how Facebook's C-suite has responded to reports of mismanagement.
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00:26:57 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Facebook's dirty tricks
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook and the explosive report on their mismanagement and deception over the past three years.
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00:37:19 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest
Kara and Scott talk about the upshot of the 2018 midterms, Amazon’s surprise HQ2 announcement and how our perception of social media has been permanently changed by bots and trolls.
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00:26:50 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
Sexual harassment at Google, nasty YouTube comments and Beto O'Rourke
Kara and Scott talk about Google's attempts to cover up sexual harassment claims against three of its top executives; the negative effects of cable news on society; and Scott's man-crush on Texas Sen…
00:35:09 |
Fri 02 Nov 2018
Tim Cook’s 'data industrial complex,' Uber’s IPO and Saudi money
Kara and Scott talk about Apple CEO Tim Cook's latest critiques of Facebook and Google; the fact that Uber's IPO could value the company at as much as $120 billion; and the ethical question of what t…
00:28:39 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Saudi money, Facebook’s fib and Amazon HQ2
Recode's Kara Swisher and NYU's Scott Galloway talk about Silicon Valley's Saudi money crisis, the ongoing fallout from Facebook Portal and the cities that never had a chance in Amazon's HQ2 competit…
00:23:05 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Google's data breach, Facebook Portal, and Taylor Swift
Kara and Scott discuss why the Google Plus hack matters, the new Facebook Portal and its plastic lenscap, and Kara's affection for Taylor Swift (even before Swift's Instagram post exhorting her fans …
00:32:28 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Facebook's data breach, Elon vs. SEC and the Kavanaugh hearings
On this episode of Pivot, Kara and Scott talk about: (01:20) Facebook's massive data breach; (06:05) Elon Musk's $20 million SEC settlement; (12:43) Wins of the week: Jeff Flake, Amy Klobuchar and Je…
00:24:39 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
Instagram co-founders, "tech bias" and why Amazon will buy Snapchat
Kara and Scott talk about the dramatic departure of Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' war on "tech bias," and the future of Snap. In this episode: …
00:25:30 |
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Kara and Scott explain what happens on Pivot
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00:02:38 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
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