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Pivot

Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Scott Gowah. I've founded nine businesses and eight of those nine businesses,

0:04.1

a key partner has been QuickBooks, which enables the management team to focus on the levers of

0:09.4

really driving value and also provides a dashboard to gain insight into the key operations and

0:14.0

finances of the company. QuickBooks has been a pillar of my entrepreneurial efforts. Check out

0:19.4

QuickBooks.com.

0:21.1

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Cara Swisher.

0:31.0

And I'm Scott Gowah, a future ambassador to Estonia after delivering Southern Florida to

0:36.8

President Beto O'Rourke in 2020. Oh Beto. I'm so sad for you Scott that you didn't get your Beto

0:45.6

as a senator from Texas. You must be devastated.

0:47.6

Now, gets 49 percent in Texas raises money on a national level. Hello Mr. President.

0:55.5

So Cara, key question. A few days in. How do you feel or how are you feeling about the election?

1:01.3

All right. Well, I'm going to say how my son felt. So we get in the car and my son,

1:05.2

I said he wasn't with me. I was at an election party and he was reviewing all the things with

1:10.4

me 13 years old and he goes, I got to say, yeah, and that's what he said.

1:16.1

He goes, Democrats really can't deliver it, but the Republicans kind of suck too. And I was like,

1:20.8

and seen that is exactly what the situation is. So, yeah, whatever.

1:26.3

So you're not terribly upset and terribly happy or just sort of met?

1:29.8

Yeah, we just can't have nice things as they say. We just can't have nice things in this country.

1:34.5

So that's the way it is. It's fine. You know what gridlock is good as far as I in this situation.

1:39.0

I'm good with gridlock. So it's fine. That's what we got. That's what we're getting.

1:43.3

I'm going to live that gridlock is good. So anyway, bring it down to tech. Do you think this means

1:50.6

anything? No, no, I think they're not going to get regulated now because gridlock is good. You

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