Kara Swisher, host of Pivot and Sway podcasts, co-founder of Recode: "When I have someone try to shut me down by insulting me or calling me bossy or outspoken, that's when I go full in."

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kara Swisher has been called the most feared and well-liked journalist in Silicon Valley. She’s been covering tech industry leaders for decades...and is famous for making them sweat. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, or Elon Musk. Her secret to building those relationships with entrepreneurs? She’s not afraid to pick up the phone (or slide into a DM) when she has a question. In this episode, Kara shares why you shouldn’t hide your personality at work (14:18), the reason she considers herself a “bad employee” (21:29), and who she wants to interview next (30:30).

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0:13.4	I think a lot of people tend to get to not say what's right in front of them right? I say something. When I have someone trying to shut me down by insulting me or calling me bossy or outspoken, that's when I go
0:17.6	full in. That's when I know I'm winning the situation.
0:20.6	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Carly Zaken.
0:24.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:25.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:26.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:30.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team,
0:33.0	to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary
0:36.0	and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:38.5	We started the skim from a couch,
0:40.0	so what better place to talk it all out
0:42.0	than where it began on a couch?
0:44.4	Hey everyone, it's Carly.
0:52.4	Today, Kara Swisher joins me on Skim From the Couch. She has been called the most feared and well-liked journalist in Silicon Valley. Kara has been covering the tech world for decades and is also the co-founder of the site
1:05.2	Recode. She's currently the host of two podcasts, Sway and Pippit. Cara thank you so much for
1:12.3	coming on the show. to skim from the couch
1:14.4	thank you there's no couch though that's true well welcome from my kitchen first
1:21.0	question we ask everybody skim your resume I I'm really old. Do you really want my
1:25.0	resume? Okay. I went to Georgetown University. I went to Columbia Journalism School.
1:29.2	I worked for lots of people in very low-level jobs like delivering mail at the Washington Post and
1:34.8	being assistant to people, journalists type people. And then I got an internship in the Washington
1:40.4	Post which I then got hired from and then I worked there and then
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