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Episode 145: Ashlee Vance

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Education, Books, Arts, News

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ashlee Vance covers technology for Bloomberg Businessweek and is the author of of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. “To be totally clear, I don’t cover them (apps). I like people who try to solve big problems. Wherever I go, I try to run away from the consumer stuff. I love writing about giant manufacturing plants that make stuff and employ tens of thousands of people.” Thanks to this week's sponsors: TinyLetter, Trunk Club, QuickBooks, and The School of Continuing Education at Columbia University. Show Notes: The Atavist Magazine Podcast: Episode 1 @valleyhack ashleevance.com Vance on Longform [15:00] Vance's Register archive [15:00] Vance's New York Times archive [16:00] "Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power" (New York Times • Jan 2009) [19:00] The "Semi-Coherent Computing" Podcast [22:00] Longform Podcast #123: Nicholas Carlson [27:00] "This Tech Bubble Is Different" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2011) [31:00] "Larry Ellison Is Spending a Fortune to Save American Tennis" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2011) [31:00] "Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Apr 2013) [33:00] "The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet" (Bloomberg Businessweek • Jan 2015) [41:00] Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! (Nicholas Carlson • Twelve • 2015) [41:00] "Yahoo Sues Ex-Staffer Claiming She Gave Secrets to Writer" (Joel Rosenblatt, Brian Womack • Bloomberg • May 2015) [46:00] "The Killing of Osama bin Laden" (Seymour M. Hersh • London Review of Books • May 2015) [54:00] "Elon Musk, a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait" (Dwight Garner • New York Times • May 2015) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

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or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

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0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:29.1

Support for this episode comes from Zell.

0:33.0

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0:37.0

You use two-factor authentication, ignore calls from everyone named spam risk, and never used the password.

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But, scammers are getting more sophisticated and more active,

0:51.0

which means they're finding millions of new victims every single year.

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The good news is that there's a lot you can do to protect yourself on the wild, wild web.

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For starters, Zell wants to remind you,

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only send money to people you know and trust.

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Terms and conditions apply.

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Before we get going I have a quick word from our sponsors the first of which is

1:19.9

the School of Continuing Education at Columbia University.

1:24.1

If you're spending the summer in New York,

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