#093 - Roger McNamee - Is Facebook Zucked?
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, musician and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners.
Roger has had a front seat to the biggest developments in Silicon Valley for the last 30 years and this culminated with his time as an early investor and key advisor to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook.
Over the last few years he became concerned with the direction that Facebook and Big Tech was taking and now spends his time educating the general public on the dangers of Surveillance Capitalism, data privacy, technology addiction and much more.
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| 0:28.0 | For recent years, Roger became increasingly concerned with the direction that Facebook and other tech giants were moving in. |
| 0:29.0 | And he's finally decided to write a book about it and obviously come on Modern Wisdom. |
| 0:37.0 | So, expect to learn an awful lot about the inner workings of Silicon Valley, what tech companies are really trying to do with your data and his predictions for the future. |
| 0:43.0 | If you enjoy this episode, you have to go check out the one I did with Professor David Carroll about the great hack a couple of weeks ago. |
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