"Guest is God"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On The Gist, the next wave of start-ups should be like the tech companies we have now, but with a conscience. In the interview, filmmaker Anthony Maras is more wedded to a theme—people in extremis—than a form, and his latest is a thriller based on true events. Hotel Mumbai follows a band of diverse survivors holed up in the Taj, one of the targets in India's 2008 terrorist attacks. "Something kind of magical happened, which is all these barriers that usually divide people evaporated." In the Spiel, Donald Trump: bullshitter or shitposter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may contain explicit language and feel free to use explicit language
0:03.8	when you review the gist on iTunes.
0:06.2	It helps other people find the show.
0:11.8	It's Friday, March 29th, 2019 from Slate.
0:14.5	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:16.4	The ride sharing app Lift had a stock market public offering today.
0:21.4	It was so successful that I proposed we just start calling it Lift
0:26.0	and not the whole the ride sharing app Lift.
0:29.5	The internet search engine Google, the discourse de-generator and civilization
0:33.7	destabilizer Facebook. I mean, do we really need all the qualifiers?
0:37.5	We use these things every day. We know what they are.
0:40.9	Do we call McDonald's the hamburger purveyor or IBM, the business machine,
0:45.5	manufacturer? Lift is just lift. We all know what lift is.
0:49.9	And what lift is is less shitty Uber.
0:52.9	That is indeed why lift was priced at $72 and immediately popped
0:58.0	in the first moments of trading. The biggest issue is valuation.
1:00.7	Is it how much it's worth? People have been wrong about these companies from day one.
1:05.9	Lift's market cap is now worth about $25 billion and why?
1:09.6	Well, I said it. It's because it's less shitty Uber.
1:12.6	Not less shitty in terms of performance. As far as products go,
1:16.1	I literally can't see a difference between those two things.
1:19.0	And most of my lift drivers are also Uber drivers.
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