571. Roger McNamee

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Roger McNamee is the guest. His new book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, is a New York Times bestseller, available from Penguin Press. McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Roger plays bass and guitar in the bands Moonalice and Doobie Decibel System and is the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words, Volumes 1-9. He has served as a technical advisor for seasons two through five of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series and was also responsible for raising the money that created the Wikimedia Foundation. In today's monologue, I talk about Disorder Salon, a new reading series starting up in New Orleans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Premier League is exciting.
0:04.0	It's exhilarating.
0:07.0	And sometimes it's...
0:11.0	So when you need something to help you ride the highest and loads of all that action,
0:17.0	grab a coat to keep you in the game.
0:20.0	Time to refresh.
0:21.8	Time for a Coke.
0:23.8	Coca-Cola, official partner of the Premier League.
0:29.8	Hey, everybody.
0:30.8	The Other People podcast is offered freely.
0:33.3	All episodes of this show, more than 570 episodes and counting are available for free it's all
0:39.5	free it's offered freely your support makes a difference if you would like to support
0:43.7	this show you can do that at patreon.com slash other ppl pod support the show
0:49.7	patreon.com slash other PPL pod. Okay.
0:55.9	You are not alone.
0:58.4	You have found other people.
1:01.8	You and I have a friend in common.
1:04.4	Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done.
1:07.2	I think it's really beautiful.
1:08.8	Gee, what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, but your head exploded to see what's really beautiful. What a struggle, you know?
1:11.2	It was incredible.
1:12.2	Your head exploded to see what was really there.
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