Recode Decode: Steve Hilton, CEO, Crowdpac

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how his website is making it easier for anyone to explore running for office and to collect donations for political causes and campaigns. Hilton, a former advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, says the need to raise money “underpins a huge proportion of what’s wrong with politics,” and wants more diverse voices in the fray. A supporter of both Brexit and candidate Trump, he says the U.S. president needs to stop listening to Republicans in Congress and focus on “positive populism” — meaning solutions to the anxiety over jobs and the economic growth that helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:11.1	You may know me as the future mayor of San Francisco, and any poll that tells you otherwise
0:15.5	is fake news.
0:17.2	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about
0:21.2	tech and media's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live
0:25.0	in.
0:26.0	Subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode, and while you're there, leave
0:31.1	us a review.
0:32.4	Today in the red chair is Steve Hilton, one of my favorite people in Silicon Valley because
0:36.7	he's funny.
0:37.7	The CEO and co-founder of CrowdPak, a platform that tries to make it easier to learn about
0:42.9	and get involved in politics.
0:45.0	Steve was previously a senior advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, and he's
0:49.4	apparently the bad boy of British politics.
0:52.0	And last year he signed on to become a contributor at Fox News, my least favorite network, where
0:56.6	he is working on a show called the Next Revolution.
0:59.2	We so much to talk about, Steve, welcome to Recode Decode and brave for you to come here.
1:03.7	Thank you very much.
1:04.7	I'm excited about that.
1:05.7	Yeah, it's going to be great.
1:06.7	Where do you want to start?
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