Facebook makes a Substack competitor, Netflix's carbon footprint and the future of McKinsey

Pivot

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News, News Commentary, Tech News, Technology

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Kara and Scott discuss scandals at Substack as Facebook builds a newsletter competitor. They also discuss a new tool that is measuring the carbon footprint of streaming on Netflix and what that means for the industry. In listener mail, we get a question about whether McKinsey is still the gold standard for early career success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is Pivot, some New York magazine and the Vox Media podcast network. I'm
0:07.0	Cara Swisher and I'm Scott Galloway. How are you Cara? Good. You once again have triumphs.
0:12.2	I cannot believe it. Not Bill Mar thing. Amazon's expanding its telehealth program. Amazon
0:17.2	care to all of its US employees and other companies. We've both been talking about this,
0:21.3	but this talk about this. This was this was the idea that Amazon as it's done with its
0:25.3	logistics is start an AWS is starting to do this. You mean in 2018 when I predicted a deal
0:31.5	to deal with the Amazon would be the biggest healthcare company in the world. The CTO of Amazon
0:35.0	then took the stage and just called me a comedian and then refused to answer any questions about Amazon
0:39.6	answering the health bill. And then you're not heard about that. Look, what was that movie with Brad
0:46.2	Pitt and Tom Cruise where we got to see them kiss starry ava vampire. Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah,
0:53.1	sure. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Fine. Oh, seriously underrated actors because they're both so hot.
0:58.5	Anyways, he can't survive on rats and finally he has to go after humans on Amazon. If you look
1:07.3	at the retail, I believe you're making this metaphor, but keep going. It works. It would
1:12.4	answer gave vampires because it works. It works. And then a bridge to Amazon and healthcare.
1:19.3	Yeah. That's that's that's so block this metaphor. If you look at the retail ecosystem, Wal-Mart's done
1:26.8	okay. Lulu Lemons done okay. There's some well publicized examples coming and basically everyone
1:32.5	has been sucked dry. Amazon has added more market capitalization than I think all of European
1:39.3	retail is worth since the pandemic and they bottom line is they need a new carcass.
1:45.0	And there just is no carcass is fat and ready as healthcare and they have been lining up their
1:52.8	troops at the border. It's just so obvious that they allow the their food, their acquisition of
1:58.0	pill pack, their investment in voice and it's both a really exciting because this could provide a
2:05.8	level of primary healthcare access to tens of not hundreds of millions of Americans, but also
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