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Okay, Computer 6/29/22: Has Anyone Checked on Elon? A Conversation with Kara Swisher

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dan speaks with tech journalist Kara Swisher about her exit from the New York Times for a new role with Vox Media (0:54), Mark Zuckerberg’s huge bet on the metaverse and the future of Meta/Facebook (5:17), Kara’s recent interview with VC heavyweight Chris Dixon on the outlook for Web3 (10:22), if FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is becoming a Warren Buffett-like lifeline for the crypto industry (13:36), crypto likely becoming more centralized (14:13), Elon Musk’s curious silence on Twitter (16:42), whether Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will overcome the challenges facing the company (22:43), Kara’s push to cover the existential problems from climate change (24:48), and the impact Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley influencers are having on politics (27:00).  —- Email us at [email protected] with any feedback, suggestions, or questions for us to answer on the pod and follow us @OkayComputerPod. We’re on social: Follow Dan Nathan @RiskReversal on Twitter Follow @GuyAdami on Twitter Follow us on Instagram @RiskReversalMedia Subscribe to our YouTube page

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0:00.0

Welcome to the OK Computer podcast takeover of the On the Tape feed.

0:04.3

OK Computer is the latest offering for risk reversal media.

0:07.3

We're going to cover all things tech, public and private markets, the intersection of Web 2 and Web 3.

0:12.9

We have this amazing group of co-hosts and contributors.

0:16.5

This is going to be in the On the Tape feed for a short period of time.

0:19.2

So please follow OK Computer in your podcast stores.

0:23.1

So you get new episodes every Wednesday on your phone.

0:26.6

Thanks.

0:28.1

Welcome back to OK Computer.

0:30.0

I am Dan Nathan.

0:31.0

I am joined with the illustrious Kara Swisher.

0:34.0

She needs no introduction to our listeners.

0:36.2

Kara, welcome to OK Computer. Welcome back to OK Computer.

0:40.0

Thank you. You still have this name of it. Okay, computer. Do you still like the name or no?

0:44.3

I never did, but go ahead. Fair enough. Listen, so Kara is obviously the host of Sway on the New York Times.

0:50.9

She's also an opinion writer there. And listen, I got into podcast. I think the

0:54.5

first podcast I ever listened to was Recode. You have been an innovator in digital media for years.

1:00.2

Obviously, I used the term illustrious. You've been at the forefront of tech reporting for over a couple

1:05.5

of decades, but you made some kind of big news because you sold Recode in 2015 to Vox. You've been doing a podcast

1:12.7

pivot for years there, but you're going back to Vox. Talk to us a little bit about that move.

1:17.5

Not back. I mean, it's interesting. I've never left, first of all. Like, I was doing Pivot,

1:21.4

and Pivot's a very big podcast. So it's actually bigger than any of them. The podcast universe, it's the one who makes the most money,

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