Recode Decode: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis (live at SXSW)

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview from South by Southwest 2019. In this episode: Youthful political energy in the US and Texas; the history of women and people of color not being seen in politics and tech; Hamilton's Twitter tiff with Paul Graham; how Davis' group Deeds Not Words gets women in the room; her 13-hour filibuster and the way it echoed into 2018; are things getting better and what's next?; the national political mood and Davis's next act; making apologies and accommodations for the people who discriminate; how people pressured Hamilton to prove herself immediately; who has the responsibility to increase diversity?; why do people keep talking to Kara Swisher?; Fox News and brainwashing; and the next generation of Americans. 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.
0:19.8	Hey everyone, this is Cara Swisher.
0:24.8	You may know me as the person Donald Trump calls, Cara podcasts, but in my spare time I
0:28.8	talk tech here on Reco Decode.
0:31.3	Every week since 2015 we've been bringing you candid conversations with the most important
0:36.0	people in tech and media and now we're doing a survey to learn more about you and what
0:40.4	you've liked.
0:41.4	Your answers will help us plan the future of Reco Decode to better serve you.
0:45.1	So please if you have a few minutes today take the Reco Decode survey at recode.net slash
0:50.0	pod survey.
0:51.5	That's recode.net slash pod survey.
0:54.5	Thanks so much.
0:59.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, the editor at large of Reco.
1:02.4	You may know me as someone who doesn't ask for forgiveness or permission, but in my spare
1:06.2	time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:10.9	Today we're going to play a live interview I did recently with backstage capital founder
1:15.4	Arlen Hamilton and Texas politician Wendy Davis.
1:19.2	We spoke at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.
1:23.0	Let's take a listen.
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