The Big Data Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk big data.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-How venture capitalist Peter Thiel, really feels about Palantir-European giant Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for 1 billion dollars-Elon Musk’s Master Plan with the electric car startup, Tesla
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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello and welcome to the Big Data edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:19.1 | And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, when I say |
| 0:23.0 | Big Data, you are thinking that's not the business and finance news of this week. That's the |
| 0:26.7 | business and finance buzz term of three years ago. And it was stupid then and haven't we all moved |
| 0:31.9 | on? And the answer is that three years ago, Big Data was something which people got very excited about |
| 0:38.2 | like being the future and now we are kind of entering that future there are things which are |
| 0:44.3 | going on in the world which are actually turning data into money it's happening people and we are |
| 0:49.4 | going to talk about it we being myself felix Fusion, I've realized that I haven't been |
| 0:56.2 | introducing myself. You might not know who I am. Everybody knows Felix Sam and a fusion. |
| 1:00.8 | Well, does everyone know Kathy O'Neill of Mathbabe.org? I don't know. Hi, people. I'm Kathy. |
| 1:05.5 | And does everyone know Jordan Weissman of MoneyBucks? No one knows Jordan Weissman of MoneyBucks. |
| 1:10.2 | And I just want to jump in that I was a data skeptic before, before there were data skeptics. |
| 1:15.6 | Big data was always a bullshit term. I'm sort of data agnostic. I'm definitely on the, on the |
| 1:22.0 | data skeptic side. But we're going to have a look at how people are really dealing with these gnarly issues in the real world this weekend. |
| 1:30.3 | We're going to talk about Dollar Shave Club, weirdly enough. |
| 1:36.3 | That's Kathy's little topic of the week. |
| 1:38.6 | We are going to talk about Tesla. |
| 1:40.8 | Everyone's safe a car company. |
| 1:42.1 | That's my little topic of the week. |
| 1:43.7 | But first, Jordan, |
| 1:46.5 | there is a large shadowy spy organization out there. Its name is Specter. No, it's |
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