Recode Decode: Linda McMahon, U.S. Small Business Administrator (Live at Code 2018)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Linda McMahon, the former pro wrestling executive who now leads the Trump administration’s Small Business Administration, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. McMahon explains how the nonpartisan SBA is reckoning with today’s charged and divisive politics, arguing that policy successes will heal those wounds. She also talks about how her administration is working to help small businesses thrive in an era of tech disruption and what responsibility the tech companies have to invest around the country. Plus: What the largely liberal Silicon Valley doesn’t understand about President Trump. 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	Technology today has never been smarter,
0:05.3	but smart only matters when you put it to good use.
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0:11.0	Let's put smart to work.
0:12.6	Find out how at IBM.com slash smart.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, editor at large of Recode.
0:22.7	You're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:26.4	Today we're going to play an interview from the 2018 Code Conference,
0:29.9	which I co-produced with Recode's Executive Editor, Peter Kafka.
0:34.0	This is an interview I did with Linda McMahon, the co-founder of WWE,
0:38.0	who's now in the Trump administration leading the Small Business Administration.
0:41.9	Let's take a listen.
0:44.0	I thought it was really important that tech, which is, you know, more,
0:47.6	on the liberal end and more democratic in general,
0:51.6	also hears from lots of things, including people in the Trump administration.
0:54.9	So I was casting around for someone who I could invite.
0:58.7	And of all things, and I told her this backstage,
1:02.6	I edited a podcast with Anthony Scare-Mochi, which was fantastic.
1:07.5	And we talked for 90 minutes and he suggested Linda.
1:09.9	And at the minute he did, I thought, this is great.
1:11.9	Someone is an entrepreneur.
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