Look Ma, No Hands! With Waymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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After Kara and Nayeema discuss recent moves at CNN and the ducking cool innovation at Apple, we launch into part two of “Car Week” and an interview with Tekedra Mawakana. The Co-CEO of Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project) discusses trying to change how society moves while dealing with obstacles to the autonomous vehicle transition, like angsty Teamsters and tetchy regulators. And Kara explains why she’s so bullish on driverless cars. BTW, do you have any burning questions on career, love or life where you’d like Kara or Nayeema’s advice? Call 1-888-KARA-PLZ and leave us a voicemail. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram. We’re @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:10.6	This is Chris Licht with a lot more time on my hands to spend with my trainer, just
0:15.3	kidding.
0:16.3	This is on with Cara Swisher and I'm Cara Swisher.
0:18.6	And I'm Neymar Raza.
0:19.6	Yes, if you haven't read Tim Alberta's Gating Atlantic profile of the now former CNN CEO,
0:24.4	Chris Licht, there was a fantastic scene where he's kind of gritting his teeth, lifting
0:28.7	weight, saying, Zucker couldn't do this shit.
0:32.0	Famous almost last words because Chris Licht is now out as chairman and CEO of CNN after
0:36.2	a string of stumbles and then some really bad press, including that Atlantic profile, which
0:39.9	by the way, came out a day after Chris Licht's boss, Discovery CEO, David Zazloff, had
0:44.6	installed his very loyal long-term discovery, exact David Levy, to BCOO at CNN.
0:49.6	A move that many saw is kind of putting in a Trojan horse as a war.
0:52.8	Well, he's a really competent executive.
0:54.5	I mean, I don't think that makes sense.
0:56.1	If there's trouble like that, you have to bring in your guy.
0:58.7	Like you can't trust Chris.
0:59.7	And, you know, Chris had already made a number of missteps after the Trump town hall, you
1:04.7	know, trying to stifle Oliver Darcy, being really defensive about what was an obvious
1:11.5	disaster was a problem.
1:13.6	And of course, talking too much, that's insane, bringing a reporter to his trainer.
1:17.6	Yes, bringing a reporter to a trainer and the control room of the Trump town hall.
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