The Billionaire Tax Bites the Dust, Big Tech’s Q3, and Tesla’s Worth a Trillion

Pivot

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4.3 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Kara and Scott discuss the latest on Sen. Ron Wyden’s proposed billionaire tax, Big Tech’s Q3 results coming in strong, and testimony from YouTube, Snap, and TikTok. Also, Tesla is now worth a trillion, and what Kara’s Twitter followers wanted Facebook’s new name to be, revealed. Plus, Scott’s predicts Time's 2021 Person of the Year. Send us your Listener Mail questions, via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:07.8	I'm Kara Swisher.
0:09.3	And Daddy's Rock in the City of Angels.
0:11.4	What do you do in there?
0:12.6	The air is a little drier, the sunburns a little bit brighter.
0:15.3	Mm-hmm.
0:16.3	Sand, Burntino mountains are a little more majestic when the dogs in town.
0:19.9	I'm in LA, Kara.
0:21.2	I'm in LA.
0:22.2	Why are you in LA?
0:23.2	Why are you allowed to go to California at all?
0:24.8	But nonetheless, why are you there?
0:26.2	You were there with me last time you were there.
0:28.1	I was with you.
0:29.1	Yeah.
0:30.1	I'm speaking at UCLA.
0:31.1	Oh, right.
0:32.1	I saw that picture.
0:33.1	That was nice.
0:34.1	That was a nice picture.
0:35.1	Isn't that nice?
0:36.1	I walked on a campus yesterday.
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