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Listen to Every Day Better on the LinkedIn Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition. I am Alex Cantorowitz live here.

As always on Friday with Ron John Roy.

For our weekly news show, we stream on LinkedIn.

We stream on YouTube if you're on YouTube and this is working.

That's cool.

But I know we're live on LinkedIn and we bring this to the podcast feed every single Friday so we're going to

talk about the news it's going to be a supplement to the weekly Wednesday flagship show and we're

stoked you're here Ron John I'm stoked that you're here I did not know I did not know the big technology

theme could go on that long but but I liked where it's going.

Look, as I've said it a couple of times when we've done these live shows, it's definitely going to take a few tries for me to figure out how to do both the recording on Riverside for the podcast and streaming.

And we'll also take questions.

And that's a situation where you just

end up getting a very very long intro as I'm checking all the settings but hey look that's

what music's for and uh and now the game did the job it did the job so our discussion today is titled i hope it's titled on LinkedIn, but it should be titled

Google Layoffs, Netflix, and Davos.

And we're going to talk about all those big stories.

Let's start with the big news of the week, Google Layoffs.

What did you make of the fact that the company is cutting 6% of its

workforce down 12,000 people? It's just one of a number of layoffs. We've talked about Amazon,

Microsoft. Meta, Apple hasn't done anything yet. But when you think about where Google's headed,

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