The Make Something New Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Jim Ledbetter of Inc and the Inc Uncensored podcast discuss:-So you want to implant a baby-Verizon's $4.4 billon bid for that company that used to send you cd's for the internet-Dumb ways to spend your money on pretty things Slate Money is sponsored by Dropbox, trusted by people in over 4 million businesses worldwide to keep their files safe, synced, and easy to share with anyone. Try Dropbox for Business free for 14 days at dropbox.com/business.And by Quickbooks. If you work for yourself, try QuickBooks Self-Employed. It helps separate your business and personal expenses, estimate your federal quarterly taxes and more. See what QuickBooks Self-Employed can do for you with a free thirty-day trial at http://tryselfemployed.com/money. Today’s guest James Ledbetter hosts a podcast on the Panoply Network about tech, business, startups, and entrepreneurship. It’s called Inc. Uncensored and you can listen to the latest episode here: https://soundcloud.com/panoply/inc-uncensored-ep-13-verizon-buys-shingy-and-aol-and-the-backbone-of-the-on-demand-economy/s-7LHWz Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is sponsored by Dropbox, trusted by people in over 4 million businesses worldwide to keep their files safe, synced, and easy to share with anyone. |
| 0:10.1 | Try Dropbox for business free for 14 days at Dropbox.com slash business. |
| 0:16.3 | And buy QuickBooks. If you work for yourself, try QuickBooks self-employed. It helps separate your |
| 0:22.2 | business and personal expenses, estimate your federal quarterly taxes, and more. See what QuickBooks |
| 0:28.1 | Self-Employed can do for you with a free 30-day trial at tryselfemployed.com slash money. |
| 0:34.5 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:42.2 | Hello, and welcome to the Making Something New edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:49.9 | Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Felix Sam and the Fusion. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm joined, as always, by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger from MathBabe. |
| 0:58.4 | Hi, Felix. |
| 0:59.1 | Hi, Kathy. |
| 1:01.1 | And because Jordan is on honeymoon, we have reached deep onto the panoply bench. |
| 1:07.0 | Very deep. |
| 1:08.1 | Very, very deep. |
| 1:09.7 | To find the one and only Jim Ledbetter, host of, what's your podcast? Inc. Uncensored. Wow. Because you're allowed to swear on Panoply podcast. I've got some good news. You can swear here, too. Excellent. |
| 1:23.8 | Kathy is the queen of the swearing. Thank you. She's very good at saying rude things about... |
| 1:28.6 | I prefer empress. |
| 1:29.5 | Southampton real estate. |
| 1:32.2 | So Jim is basically the person who knows everything about everything. |
| 1:35.6 | So I'm looking forward to this being a Jim Ledbetton monologue while I get to have a little nap. |
| 1:40.2 | Thank you, Felix. |
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