eBay vs PayPal - Interview with Kara Swisher | 7
Business Wars
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🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We hope you enjoyed our series on eBay vs PayPal. Here to discuss her thoughts on the PayPal mafia alums is Kara Swisher. Swisher is the self-described "grumpy lady of tech" and host of the podcast Recode Decode. She's known for her tough takes on Silicon Valley, is Silicon Valley royalty, and even had a cameo in Season 1 of HBO's Silicon Valley. Have we mentioned Silicon Valley enough? Here's our conversation with Kara.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Business Wars at free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:08.4 | From Wondry, I'm David Brown and you are listening to Business Wars. |
| 0:30.5 | Today we have a very special guest, but before we talk with her, I'm going to give you a sneak peak of our next series. |
| 0:36.8 | For the first episode, we're moving far away from Silicon Valley back to 19th century Atlanta. |
| 0:43.8 | Disruption back in the days meant getting ahead of the curve on the glass bottling business. |
| 0:50.4 | Any guesses what we're talking about here? Well, let's just say it's the real thing. |
| 0:56.4 | That's right. Next up, we're heading into the battle of the Titans, Coke versus Pepsi. |
| 1:03.2 | It's a corporate dog fight that spanned three centuries and is still going on today. |
| 1:07.7 | The rivalry between Coca-Cola and Pepsi is in many respects this story of American culture |
| 1:13.9 | and we cannot wait to tell you all about it here on Business Wars. So look for that later this week. |
| 1:19.5 | And in the meantime, if there are other Business Wars you're dying to hear, shoot us a note on the |
| 1:24.6 | I Have an Idea page at Wondry.com. Joining us today, Cara Swisher. She is the self-described grumpy |
| 1:33.6 | lady of tech and she is host of the Recode podcast. She also runs the Recode website, |
| 1:39.7 | the tech news site that she co-launched in 2014 with Walt Mossberg, which is now owned by |
| 1:45.1 | Fox Media. She's known for her tough but even handed approach to covering the personalities in |
| 1:51.4 | Silicon Valley. As New York magazine put it, she's managed to elevate herself into Silicon Valley |
| 1:57.5 | royalty by writing about Silicon Valley royalty often assurbically. She even had a cameo in the |
| 2:05.4 | first season of HBO show Silicon Valley where she got to play herself, taking down fictional CEO |
| 2:11.1 | Gavin Belson. Did you catch that? Cara Swisher, thanks so much for being with us on Business Wars. |
| 2:16.8 | Thank you very much. Most journalists don't get to play themselves on TV or seem to |
| 2:24.0 | do. Both culture was just in the mission impossible. Exactly. |
| 2:30.6 | You kind of inspire a sort of respect and fear among a lot of people there. You've been called |
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