Slate Money - Protection Money
Slate Money
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🗓️ 1 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Stacy-Marie Ishmael joins as a co-host this week with Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about the pandemic’s Big Tech boom, the car market, and the controversy over Basecamp’s office culture.
In the Plus segment: Wirecard.
Mentioned in the show:
“Breaking Camp,” by Casey Newton for the Verge
“How Big Tech Won the Pandemic,” by Shira Ovide for the New York Times
”About the Apple Card,” by Jamie Heinemeier Hansson
“How the Paper Trail Went Cold in KPMG’s Special Audit of Wirecard,” by Dan McCrum and Olaf Storbeck for the Financial Times.
"The Weird, Extremely German Origins of the Wirecard Scandal" by Adrian Daub for The New Republic
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the protection money episode of Slate Money. |
| 0:18.0 | Your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here |
| 0:22.5 | with Emily Peck. Hello. And Emily, do you want to do the honors? Who are we introducing here? |
| 0:30.5 | I'm so excited to introduce Stacey Marie Ishmael. Hello. Most recently, editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune, and prior to that... |
| 0:41.4 | A bunch of stuff. |
| 0:42.1 | And a bunch of stuff. |
| 0:43.1 | I'm going to do the deep cut and say F.T. Tilt, which was the greatest publication that the world has barely ever read. |
| 0:51.5 | Aw. |
| 0:53.4 | We were certainly under-read for the time. |
| 0:56.8 | That is true. |
| 0:57.6 | It was so good. |
| 0:58.5 | You're at the FT for a long time, and then you embarked upon a long and illustrious career |
| 1:02.6 | in a bunch of different places, and the highlight of your career, 100% is now Slate Money. |
| 1:09.4 | Congratulations. |
| 1:10.0 | For sure. |
| 1:10.8 | You know, the single best thing I've ever done. |
| 1:15.1 | You're not just here this week. You're going to be here for a while. Yeah, I'm really excited. |
| 1:20.8 | We have a Texas-based co-host, so you can be a Texas correspondent. I'm happy to be a Texas |
| 1:26.3 | correspondent. This is a fascinating state. |
| 1:28.3 | So welcome, Stacey. We are going to talk to you about the crazy tech earnings that we've |
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