Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode Ben & David head to Recode’s SF office and sit down in the red chair with the one & only Kara Swisher! Kara tells the story of Recode, from the beginnings of her partnership with Walt Mossberg in the late 90’s at WSJ to the launch of the D Conference and the All Things D blog, to starting Recode and ultimately being acquired by Vox Media in 2015. Kara is someone we’ve long looked up to at Acquired, and it was really special to have her join us on the show. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!
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| 0:00.0 | That's different. That's just a bunch of white guys talking. |
| 0:02.0 | Apple, Apple, oh that damn Google. |
| 0:06.0 | Facebook. Welcome to Season 3, episode 4 of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal and we are your hosts. We are here today to |
| 0:29.2 | talk about the acquisition of Recode by Vox Media and in fact broadcasting live from the Recode |
| 0:35.1 | Podcasting Studio in the red shares nonetheless. We're here with one of the |
| 0:39.7 | the greatest people actually probably the greatest person that we could we could imagine to help us tell this story. |
| 0:44.4 | All right, okay. The one and only Karis Swisher. Nice to meet you. |
| 0:48.0 | It's not really the recodes, it's just a studio, just so you know. We're not fancy here at Vox Media that's why I'm here. |
| 0:54.7 | Listeners don't know that. Yeah. Okay it's really impressive. We're in suits. We had a |
| 0:59.1 | really nice view of the Bay Bridge before in our other office but it was too expensive so here we are |
| 1:04.7 | looking at the Trans Bay Terminal which is buses. |
| 1:07.4 | Beautiful on its own right. |
| 1:08.4 | This is what happens after you get acquired. |
| 1:09.8 | And then the sat and then the no that was before we had the night. Before we required we started the company in my backyard |
| 1:16.0 | so this is much nicer than anything else. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, we'll get into that. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:20.0 | All right, listeners, |
| 1:21.0 | Karen needs no introduction, but I'll do one anyway because it was fun to put one together. |
| 1:25.0 | Kara is the executive editor and co-founder of Recode. |
| 1:28.0 | She is the illustrious host of the Recode Decode Podcast. |
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