Recode Decode: Microsoft President Brad Smith (Live at Code 2018)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the 2018 Code Conference. Smith reflects on what Microsoft learned from losing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit in 2001, which broke the company up. He explains what tech companies that are in the crosshairs today should be thinking about their responsibility to the public. He also talks about how Microsoft has become politically active in the Trump era, particularly around immigration. He predicts a “tough summer” ahead if no compromise can be reached on the Obama-era immigration policy DACA. Plus: How Microsoft thinks about artificial intelligence, the Facebook hearings and diversity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Zippercuder, the presenting sponsor of ReCODE decode.
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0:28.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of ReCODE.
0:37.8	We're listening to ReCODE decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:41.4	Today we're going to play an interview from the 2018 Code Conference which I co-produced
0:45.8	with ReCODE's Executive Editor, Peter Kafka.
0:49.1	This is an interview I did with Brad Smith, the President of Microsoft.
0:52.8	Let's take a listen.
0:58.6	So, I can't believe we actually covered the Microsoft trial.
1:11.1	I remember well.
1:12.1	I remember seeing you in the halls of Congress.
1:14.5	Yes, I did.
1:15.5	I was there the whole time just wandering around trying to write things for the Washington
1:18.8	Post.
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