The I'd Like to Add You to My Professional Network Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Paul Ford of Postlight discuss Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Why Microsoft wanted LinkedIn. -The debt vs overseas cash question and the stock-based compensation question behind this deal. -How the options-trading going on here raises doubt about insider trading. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Slate Money is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 job sites with a single click and an interface that's easy to use. And right now, you can try it for free! Go to ZipRecruiter.com/money. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, ‘Exchanges at Goldman Sachs,’ available on iTunes. And by Ritani. Buying an engagement ring? Check out Ritani. Shop online and your ring is made in New York and sent to you or a local jeweler. It’s that easy. Go to ritani.com/money today for their free diamond giveaway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to the I'd like to add you to my professional network
0:39.7	edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week, which this week
0:48.4	means the news that Microsoft has decided to drop 26 billion dollars on acquiring a social network.
0:57.0	Because who doesn't want a social network these days?
1:01.0	There's a bunch of sort of non-Microsoft non-Social
1:06.1	Networky aspects to this deal which is why we're devoting the whole episode to
1:10.4	it. It's going to be fun. We are joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger and data scientist at
1:18.6	math babe.org. Hello everyone. Hello Kathy and we are joined by the Mondaybox columnist at
1:25.2	at the Jordan Weisman.
1:26.3	Hello Felix.
1:27.3	But most importantly and one of the main reasons in fact the main reason why this is
1:31.7	the podcast that you need to listen to at least three or four times
1:35.3	because it's that awesome is that we are joined by the one and only Paul Ford.
1:40.4	Hello Paul.
1:40.9	Sorry everybody. Paul Ford is the Hello Paul. an agency which does something so complicated that I can't even begin to describe it called
1:56.7	Postlight?
1:57.7	It's a product studio in New York City.
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