Slate Money - The Side Gig
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the problems facing Buzzfeed as it goes public, understanding the latest jobs report amidst the new COVID-19 variant, and the transition of the company Square to Block.
In the Plus segment: Debating whether Twitter should become a paid for subscription service.
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Block Heads on BLOCK’s new website
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the side gig episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:19.1 | news of the week. |
| 0:20.0 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.3 | My side gig is hosting this here show Slate Money. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm here with Stacy Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg whose side gig is also hosting Slate Money. |
| 0:32.4 | Indeed. Also, Emily whose side gig is also hosting slate money. |
| 0:33.0 | Indeed. |
| 0:34.0 | Also, Emily Peck of Fundrise. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm just going to say you have another side gig hosting slate money. |
| 0:40.0 | I have so many side gigs, Felix. |
| 0:42.0 | Like, can't even list them all to take too long. |
| 0:44.0 | You have a fortune column? I do I have a fortune column it's called worksheet and you can sign |
| 0:48.6 | very good. We love side gigs here at slate money we are going to talk about people with side gigs here at Slate Money. We are going to talk about people with |
| 0:54.4 | side gigs. We're going to talk about Jack Dorsey who the CEO of Block, |
| 1:01.2 | FCA Square, who also had a side gig running a company you might have heard of called |
| 1:06.7 | Twitter. |
| 1:07.7 | He just gave up that side gig. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to talk about the employees at Buzzfeed News who are being barred under their |
| 1:15.8 | union contract from having any kind of side gigs at all. We are going to talk about the jobs |
| 1:20.5 | report and what that says about employment. We are going to have a slate-plus segment |
| 1:26.8 | on Twitter and whether it should charge for subscriptions. It's a pretty jam-pack show, which I have to say is the most amazing testament to Shana Roth, |
| 1:40.0 | the producer, who managed to overcome technical difficulties that would have flawed anyone else. |
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