The screw-up-billionaire, quantum computers, and the skewering of Zuckerberg

Pivot

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott take a victory lap as SoftBank buys out Adam Neumann, the founder of weWork for a cool $1.7 billion. They talk about what the future might hold, now that Google has unveiled its quantum computer. Tesla proved Scott wrong and came out with some really big earnings this week. We also hear from Senior Recode reporter, Peter Kafka about what to expect from the streaming wars as Apple debuts its own platform. Winners are the women of Congress, who absolutely skewered Mark Zuckerberg in a Congressional hearing. Here is more information on Peter Kafka's Code Media Conference! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.9	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.9	And I'm Scott Galloway, your quantum computing co-host, quantum.
0:11.8	I'm going quantum, Cara.
0:13.4	You are so not quantum in so many days.
0:16.6	Oh, quantum.
0:17.6	We're back from California, actually.
0:19.4	That's what we're back at.
0:20.4	I'm in New York and who God knows where you are.
0:22.5	I don't even want to know.
0:23.5	I'm in the only place in the world that doesn't have a spectacular fall.
0:27.0	Florida.
0:28.0	Worst weather in the world during fall.
0:29.5	All right, I'm so glad you're there.
0:31.2	Listen, you got something to brag about this week.
0:33.4	Let's go for it.
0:34.4	Take your lap, little dog.
0:35.8	What's my lap?
0:36.8	I want you to call it out.
0:37.8	I'm going to act humble here.
0:39.0	I have no idea what you're talking about, Cara.
0:41.1	It's the biggest story of the season, the stunning conclusion to the Adam Newman WeWorks
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