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Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.

You may know me as a mergers and acquisitions expert by which I mean I merge suddenly on the highway and acquire speeding tickets.

But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.

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Today in the red chair, I have finally got the great Quincy Smith, a partner at Code Advisors, an investment banking firm that advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, as well as raising money.

Over the past seven years, they've worked with companies like Spotify, Living Social and something called Revere Digital, the company I started with Walt Mosquard that used to own Recode.

In other words, Quincy is my banker. This is very exciting. He worked for me, but for free. So that was great.

Quincy was previously the CEO of CBS Interactive's Long Time Media Person. Way back in the 90s, he spent five years working at Netscape where I met him when he was 12.

12 and a half. Quincy, welcome to the show. You don't look a day over 13.

Carol, thank you for having me. No problem. It's a pleasure.

Now, just try to talk in the microphone and be cogent and intelligent. That should work fine for me.

I know, but you're going to. We're going to talk all about kind of accuracy. We're talking not just of yours, but the whole media landscape and where it's going.

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