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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: How to succeed in tech: Be lucky and ruthless

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.23.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Author Corey Pein talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, “Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.” Pein moved to San Francisco to report the book, assuming the role of an entrepreneur looking to get rich quick; he learned the hard way that success doesn’t come easy, even for white men with Ivy League degrees. He criticizes the way consumers have become unpaid workers for the big tech platforms and explains why the government needs to step in and limit companies that have become more powerful than many countries. Pein also talks about highly-paid engineers in San Francisco who are deeply unhappy, and why U.S. lawmakers are only now starting to look at Silicon Valley through a critical lens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's show is brought to you by IBM.

0:03.0

By 2050, the world population will reach nearly 10 billion

0:06.8

in food production will need to grow by 70%.

0:10.1

Farmers are working with IBM and Watson

0:12.1

to help increase their crop yields.

0:13.8

Let's put smart to work.

0:15.3

Find out how at IBM.com slash smart.

0:20.6

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher,

0:21.4

Executive Editor Recode.

0:23.0

You may know me as someone with a savage heart,

0:25.5

but in my spare time, I talk tech

0:27.2

and you're listening to Recode Decode

0:28.7

from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:31.0

Today in the red chair is Corey Pine,

0:33.1

investigative reporter and a regular contributor

0:35.4

to the Baffler.

0:36.6

He's the author of a new book called Live, Work, Work, Work,

0:39.9

Die, which is my favorite headline ever of a book,

0:43.4

a journey into the savage heart of Silicon Valley.

0:46.7

Savage heart, Corey.

0:48.1

Welcome to Recode Decode.

0:49.3

Thanks for having me.

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