Kara, I finished your book.

It is surprisingly dishy.

You called it the burn book after mean girls?

So this is supposed to be what you really think about everyone,

like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, all of them.

That's exactly right.

I'm Hannah Rosen, this is Radio Atlantic and Kara is Kara Swisher.

The most straightforward way to describe And Kara is Kara Swisher.

The most straightforward way to describe her

is veteran technology journalist.

But the bigger truth is that she was put on this earth

to cover Silicon Valley. From the minute that Kara got a giant prototype

cell phone in her hand, she knew that she had to move west. So there she was, at the beginning

of the dot-com era in the makeshift garage offices where everyone coded all night and at the parties where they drank and then told her things

And as they became more famous, she became more famous for being both incredibly well connected and a journalistic bulldog.

Not sure how those two things held together, but they did, and she kept it up for years.

And at this point, when it's way, way harder to get access to these tech titans,

Kara Swisher is one of the only journalists who can say that she knew them and many of their parents way back when.

Which explains the book's dis-she vibe.

And PS, there will be cursing. It's not about like people's

dating lives that's not what you mean you're talking about their actual personalities right?

Yes exactly I want you to understand how they got from one place to another how what

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