I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers Podcast.

Today we have with us one of the most brilliant people in journalism,

covering one of the most brilliantly evolving beats I can say

with some interesting friends herself but none other than Kara Swisher. How are you?

Hi how you doing? I'm not sure I'm brilliant but okay sure that's what the that's what the people say

we're so we're not I don't know who these people are but okay so look we my show is

decently unique and that we ask all of our guests the first question. Many people see you, they see you on podcast,

they see you on their social media feed,

and they want to know how you got there.

So talk to us about the arc of your career and how you got to the beach you cover now.

Oh, well, it's a very long story because I'm very old, but I basically was a beat reporter.

I came up as, I think the very best people that do anything whether they comment on things or they become

columnist have been beat reporters who have just done news stories for years and I started at the Washington Post and I was

covering many other things including retail and then I moved to tech there I started covering early internet companies

There AOL was in Washington in the Washington area moved to the Wall Street journal covered the beginnings of all of the tech companies so I met all these people at the very

beginnings of their careers and there had been several cycles so I've met them all as they've come up and then

and have not to know them when they weren't rich and they weren't famous and they were startups.

And then I evolved into starting my own company where we did our own media stuff online within

the Wall Street Journal at first and then on our own, sold it and continued to work with

Vox Media. I had a stint at the New York Times for a short time for a couple of years,

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