Kara Swisher on Silicon Valley’s lack of competition

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Recode editor-at-large Kara Swisher joins Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to discuss the possibilities of breaking up big tech companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. Kara also explains how the dominance of these four giant companies harms competition and innovation in Silicon Valley and why tech companies should be doing more to help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.0	Hey everybody, it's Jeff in the Verges House on this week's interview episode very special
0:25.2	guest.
0:26.2	Cara Swisher, Editor at Large, Recode, New York Times columnist, Host of Recode, Decode,
0:31.7	and the Box Media Podcast Network in Pivot.
0:34.8	All great shows.
0:36.2	We just came off the code conference.
0:38.1	I realized I talked to everybody at code about the code conference but I actually hadn't
0:41.9	had a chance to catch up with Cara about it, to talk about the performance of the platform
0:46.9	executives on stage as they talked about content moderation, talk about where the tech
0:50.7	industry is going, talk about breaking up tech companies, Cara knows everybody.
0:54.2	She had a lot to say about that stuff.
0:56.4	I love talking to Cara.
0:57.7	She's super funny, super smart, ultra connected, just a great conversation all around.
1:02.6	Check it out.
1:06.6	Cara Swisher, thanks for coming on.
1:07.8	No problem.
1:08.8	You were out a while ago.
1:09.8	We talked about AT&T and Time Warner, I think.
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