497 | Anupreeta Das: How Tech Billionaires Reshaped America

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Anupreeta Das, South Asia Correspondent for The New York Times and author of Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World, joins The Realignment. Anupreeta and Marshall discuss how the era of internet-driven tech wealth compares to the 19th century Gilded Age, lessons from the rise and fall of Microsoft in the 1990s, the state of antitrust against tech companies, and whether billionaires have had a net positive or negative effect on the U.S. in the early 21st century.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Like them or hate them,
0:11.6	billionaires are some of the most consequential figures in global politics and business culture and of course the technology industry.
0:19.5	So today I'm joined by the New York Times's South Asia correspondent on her plate a day she to discuss her new book,
0:26.5	billionaire Nair Savior King, Bill Gates, and the quest to shape our world.
0:31.3	Our conversation, we discuss the role of billionaires in American
0:34.4	society through the lens of Bill Gates's career, Microsoft's rise and stagnation
0:38.9	during the 1990s and 2000 and of course where the tech industry is and where it's going to continue to go
0:44.6	through the lens of big personalities like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and of course
0:49.0	Ewan Musk. Hope you all enjoy the conversation and a huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation is for the work of this podcast.
0:57.0	Anuprita Doss, welcome to the realignment.
1:03.3	Hey, good to be here.
1:06.5	So let's start here.
1:07.7	I am personally really obsessed with the tech industry, so we're gonna speak about tech, Bill Gates,
1:15.2	Microsoft, Facebook, all the current day issues.
1:18.3	But I think this is also a broader conversation.
1:20.7	And the book itself is about billionaires and their place in American
1:24.1	society. So let's just start here. How would you distinguish between a late
1:31.9	20th century, early 21st century American tech billionaire and a more
1:38.8	stereotypical Wall Street financier billionaire in the same period because oftentimes they're
1:45.4	kind of conflated but as we're sort of going through this billionaire
1:48.8	backlash period the distinctions and the differences are actually really key here for my thesis perspective so I'd love to hear
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