Slate Money - The Service as a Service Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss our expectations for treatment.Topics discussed on today’s show include:Will other restaurants follow Danny Meyer's example of eliminating the tip system at his restaurants?How did Theranos go so wrong? And can they recover?This week saw huge tech deals. But do we care about these mergers? Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.Slate Money is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, they’ll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/slatemoney. And by OPEN ACCOUNT, a podcast series created by SuChin Pak and Umpqua Bank. OPEN ACCOUNT explores, through honest and sometimes comical interviews, our uncomfortable silence around money. OPEN ACCOUNT is now on iTunes.And by The Message, a new podcast series from GE Podcast Theater.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business, |
| 0:05.6 | Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment |
| 0:10.3 | method with one simple integration. Plus, they'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions |
| 0:16.4 | fee-free. To learn more, visit braintree payments.com slash slate money. |
| 0:24.1 | And by Open Account, a podcast series created by Sujin Pach and Umquah Bank. Open Account explores |
| 0:30.7 | through honest and sometimes comical interviews, are uncomfortable silence around money. |
| 0:36.7 | Open Account is now available on iTunes. |
| 0:40.2 | And by The Message, a new podcast series from GE Podcast Theater. |
| 0:46.1 | Hi, Nikki Tomlin here, and I'm the host of The Message. |
| 0:50.0 | I'll be following a team of elite cryptographers as they decode a highly classified radio transmission. |
| 0:55.6 | To sum it up, extraterrestrials, the message on iTunes. |
| 1:00.5 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:09.1 | Hello! |
| 1:23.2 | Welcome to the Service as a Service Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of a Big Week in Business and Finance News. |
| 1:28.2 | There's a whole bunch of stuff we aren't even going to be able to get to this week. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 1:38.6 | Hi, Felix. |
| 1:40.0 | Hi, Kathy. |
| 1:50.6 | And if it sounds a bit weird, I'm recording this from a hotel room in Los Angeles, where I flew out to interview Bernie Sanders. |
| 1:55.8 | You're going to be able to find that on Fusion.net come Monday. |
| 2:02.2 | I am also joined, as ever, by Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
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