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Netflix Breaks a Losing Streak, Zuck Swipes at iMessages, and Guest Ben Smith of Semafor

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

News Commentary, News, Technology, Tech News

4.37.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Netflix beat estimates for Q3 and added two million subscribers. Meta has Super-App dreams for WhatsApp, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready to take on iMessage. Plus, Twitter freezes employees' stock accounts, and an activist investor grabs a significant stake in Salesforce. Friend of Pivot Ben Smith joins Kara and Scott to talk about the state of media, and the launch of his news platform, Semafor. You can find Ben on Twitter at @semaforben, and Semafor at semafor.com. You can listen to Kara’s new show, On with Kara Swisher, here. Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.0

Hi everyone, this is pivot from New York Magazine and the box media podcast network. I'm Kara Swisher. I just flew in from California and G are my arms tired.

1:34.0

We're doing dad jokes. Okay, hold on. Hold on. What do you call a wolf that meditates?

1:40.0

What? A wearer wolf.

1:43.0

Oh, that's good. The dough is lifting you up on a fry. No, you know, let me just say I'm at Scott's apartment outside of his fancy studio. He offered me Keesh and coffee this morning already. I came in on a red eye.

1:57.0

And he was correct that I would it would take too long to get here. Keesh and coffee. I was on almond. Who says I'm not progressive? Who says I'm I am bringing the bone of feedies here?

2:09.0

Yeah, yes, you are. Well, thank you for having me. I'm the minister of the conservative parliament. Are you and the lettuce one? The lettuce one? Let us entertain you. There's so many things. You know, if they had just remained, that's why I'm going to the Twitter as for taping list, trust just announced your resignation. She'll be the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history.

2:30.0

I don't think we should talk about stature or height. I think that's inappropriate. So seriously, you go to London and you're like for everyone wants to invite you to that country to see what could happen.

2:40.0

Literally, literally, it's going to be impossible for me to get a visa anyway. I know. But I have decided I've they've called me and asked me for my advice and like one.

2:50.0

I'm paying slogan should absolutely be a chicken in every pot and a sea all this and every cup. And also given the given the dollars of sent. They should change the name of their national sport to soccer ball. That's a good move. I mean, really, that's a good mood in London. The mood.

3:07.0

I would say it's kind of dour and cynical. So it feels pretty much normal. So they're not for the. This is not even there's sort of, you know, kind of I don't want to say bereft a resign, but there's a lot of I roll in there. Funny and it's one of those things where I think the government there is.

3:26.0

I don't know, just keep common carry on. I don't think the British people scare easily. Yeah, yeah, they're not I don't find them. Maybe because I don't know them as well. I don't find them as polarized. Nor do I find that they define themselves to the same extent by the politics as we do here. But then again, maybe just because I don't know them as well. It's like the functional families are the ones you don't know.

3:46.0

But it strikes me they have a pretty good attitude. Yeah, it doesn't seem quite and they're funny. It doesn't seem quite as I mean, there's obviously clear partisanship, but it's sort of like the old days of partisanship versus anything else.

3:58.0

And it seems like the Tory party is really fighting each other like crazy, and trade and emails back and forth and different things. So it'll be interesting to see who's going to get this job this Jeremy.

4:10.0

No one's accusing anyone else's father of killing JFK. I mean, they're just sort of just a little bit more civil. Yeah, yeah, well, they have I like their whole, you know, Prime Minister's hour where they actually do go at each other on policy in a very strong way, but it's not ridiculously stupid like ours is anyway today Netflix bounces back, but will it last also Mark Zuckerberg comes for i message.

4:32.0

And we'll speak with Ben Smith about the launch of his new publication semaphore finally finally debuted is quite good actually I have to say I'm really impressed so far of the things I've seen, but first Twitter has frozen employees stock accounts, which could mean the deal with Elon Musk is moving forward.

4:48.0

He himself on a call about Tesla yesterday said he was obviously overpaying for it, but he was excited. The company's employee page was updated to let staff know they won't be able to access or trade shares Twitter shares jumped 1.9% after the news as is taping it's at $52 not at $54.20, which is where it needs to be to equal what Elon's going to play for it. So what thinks you about it.

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