Recode Decode: Laurene Powell Jobs

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the Emerson Collective, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about journalism, VR, and activism. In this episode: Why Powell Jobs is investing in media; President Trump's attacks on journalists; are billionaires buying outlets the only way forward?; Alejandro G. Iñárritu's VR border crossing film, Carne Y Arena; art and activism; how to fix the immigration impasse; how social media changes art; Powell Jobs' first education nonprofit, College Track; and when will Silicon Valley wake up? 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.
0:20.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large at Recode.
0:25.7	You may know me as an avid collector of Emerson's, but in my spare time I talk tech and your
0:29.8	listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:33.4	Today we're going to play a live interview I recently did with Lorraine Powell Jobs, the
0:37.4	founder of the Emerson Collective.
0:39.4	We spoke at the Lesbians who tech summit in San Francisco about a wide range of issues,
0:43.5	including her involvement in media investing and more.
0:47.3	Let's take a listen.
0:48.3	Down the ring.
0:54.5	So I did a costume change.
0:58.1	I live in the neighborhood and I did it for a reason.
1:00.6	I felt very game of thrones today.
1:03.4	My friend Richard Pleppler just left HBO so I'm doing this in honor of him.
1:08.3	But this is very game of thrones to me.
1:10.0	But what I wanted to do is take it off dramatically because when Lorraine and I went to Soul Cycle
1:15.6	together, I'm not going to go into it the details.
1:18.4	But she kicked my ass.
1:19.8	Let's just say I was like, like this and she was happily soul cycling away.
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