Meredith Whittaker: Revolutionizing Tech Privacy and Power
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Remarkable People, join Guy Kawasaki for an illuminating conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and former Google AI ethics researcher. Discover how she led the historic Google walkout, her vision for private communication technology, and her critical perspective on AI's impact on society. Whittaker shares insights on leadership, challenging tech industry norms, and building ethical alternatives to surveillance-based business models.
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| 0:00.0 | In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth. |
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| 0:32.9 | are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is the Remarkable People podcast, |
| 0:52.9 | and we're on a mission to make you remarkable. And today |
| 0:55.8 | we have a really remarkable guests. Total badass. And I say it as a compliment, total badass. |
| 1:03.9 | So this is Meredith Whitaker. Meredith, welcome to the show. Thank you, Guy. It is a delight to be here |
| 1:10.1 | with you. |
| 1:13.4 | Even though you're on Paris time. |
| 1:19.5 | I am on Paris time, but that just means I'm likely to say something more interesting because who knows what hour it is. |
| 1:21.9 | We offer you full editing privileges. |
| 1:22.6 | Oh, bless you. |
| 1:23.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:38.0 | I just, when I read about your background and I heard about you, like the most fascinating thing, well, not the most fascinating, because there's many fascinating things, but tell me about the Google walkout. I just love that story. |
| 1:46.1 | Have you ever been so indignant that you had to just pick up and do something? Because that's kind the origin story every day yeah right and you're a doer so i think we relate there that was i was at google since |
| 1:52.5 | 2006 and that was a really different time in tech it was a really wild and fun place and i learned |
| 2:00.0 | most of what i know about tech at Google. I was taking classes. |
| 2:03.5 | I shared an office with Brian Kernahan. So I was asking him questions from the author of C programming |
| 2:09.9 | language, he was explaining very kindly to a novice. So I really came up inside of Google in |
| 2:16.7 | terms of my tech education. And in some sense, |
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