Kara Swisher: Holding Big Tech Accountable

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Kara Swisher, co-founder and executive editor of Recode, has covered the tech industry since the 1990s. She opens up about her storied career holding Tech CEOs accountable, why she thinks Silicon Valley needs Chief Ethics Officers with power, and her call for Congress to start regulating tech giants. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of Boss Files, Kara Swisher, Fearless Tech Journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of Recode.
0:07.5	It's a long life, I always say. You know, I think I'm inevitable. I'm just there and I don't go
0:11.5	away. So I'm inevitable. She presses and presses the biggest names in tech for answers. And a lot of
0:18.5	the time, they hate that. But she still gets the big gets.
0:22.6	There probably is no such thing as privacy anymore, but there is such a thing as control of your data.
0:27.6	So where did her unwavering confidence come from? I ask her.
0:31.6	Because you've been told from the beginning of time through lots of different things that you are not as good.
0:36.6	You're just, you know, and that you have to look pretty or you have to look, you have to be quiet or don't speak up or you're bossy or whatever. And I just didn't care. And I think part of being gay had part of it. You do with it? Yeah. I do. Because if they weren't going to like me for that, what do I care? Like, I don't have to worry about it. I don't have to worry about the pleasing people.
0:57.3	Plus, the she thinks... they weren't going to like me for that. What do I care? Like, I don't have to worry about it.
0:54.4	I don't have to worry about the pleasing people.
0:57.3	Plus, does she think we'd even be in this predicament today if more of the big tech companies were founded by women?
1:04.3	And what she plans to do with the rest of her life?
1:08.1	Hint, it's not about work. Here's my conversation with Kara Swisher.
1:12.7	Hi, Kara Swisher.
1:13.4	Hi, Poppy Harland. Thanks for doing this. We call each other our full names. We, full names. It is 5.30 on a Friday night. Yes. Both of us would like to be in Brooklyn. Yes. With our significant others, with a glass of wine. Yes. No, not me, but go ahead.
1:26.3	Glass wine for me is what I would like.
1:29.3	But I'm more happy to be here. the glass of wine. Yes. No, not me, but go ahead. But a glass of wine for me is what I would like.
1:28.6	And, uh, but I'm more happy to be here doing this with you. Thank you for doing this.
1:34.7	No problem. My friend. Let me read you some of the words used to describe you. I don't know.
1:40.7	Is this for my mom? No, I didn't call her, but I should have.
1:45.7	Time out. Let's call mom.
1:47.8	Tech's tough as nails journalist.
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