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This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Roger McNamee joins us now from Silicon Valley very appropriately because his book is called Zucked.

Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe, Roger, thanks for being here.

Pamela, it's a delight for me to be here.

So this is not your first book.

You've written a couple of other books, but writing books is not your main line of work.

What do you do for a living when you're not writing?

I spent 34 years as an analyst and investor in America's technology industry, mostly in Silicon Valley.

I'm also a professional musician, which I've done since my years in college.

And that both of those are activities that I take very, very seriously.

And for the past two years, I have converted from being an investor in technology

to being a critic of companies that I was part of helping to build,

in which I'd loved dearly, which sadly are now unintentionally causing great harm.

What was it two years ago that caused that shift?

Was it sudden or was it just slow building thing?

It was sudden.

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