The Side Gig
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🗓️ 4 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the problems facing Buzzfeed as it goes public, understanding the latest jobs report amidst the new COVID-19 variant, and the transition of the company Square to Block.
In the Plus segment: Debating whether Twitter should become a paid for subscription service.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the side gig episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.1 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.3 | My side gig is hosting this here show Slate Money. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg, |
| 0:30.0 | whose side gig is also hosting Slate Money. |
| 0:33.3 | And also, Emily Pecker Fundrise, |
| 0:36.6 | I'm just going to say you have another side gig hosting Slate Money. |
| 0:39.9 | I have so many side gigs, Felix. Like, can't even list them all. It would take too long. You have a fortune column? I do. I have a fortune column. It's called Worksheet and you can sign up. It's very good. We love sidegigs here at Slate Money. we are going to talk about people with sidegigs. We're |
| 0:55.1 | going to talk about Jack Dorsey, who the CEO of Block, FKA Square, who also had a sidegig running a |
| 1:05.5 | company you might have heard of called Twitter. He just gave up that sidegig. We're going to |
| 1:10.3 | talk about the employees at BuzzFeed News |
| 1:13.6 | who are being barred under their union contract from having any kind of side gigs at all. We are going |
| 1:19.5 | to talk about the jobs report and what that says about employment. We are going to have a |
| 1:25.2 | slate plus segment on Twitter and whether it should charge for |
| 1:30.9 | subscriptions. It's a pretty jam-packed show, which I have to say is the most amazing testament |
| 1:38.9 | to Shana Ross, the producer, who managed to overcome technical difficulties that would have flawed anyone else. |
| 1:46.5 | Thank you, Shana, and enjoy her amazing cut of slate money coming up. |
| 1:53.3 | I want to start by talking about stonks. I know that we have, you know, important stuff to talk |
| 1:58.6 | about omicron and tapering and Jobs reports and Jack |
| 2:03.6 | Dorsey and, well, he's not important, but we'll talk about Jack Dorsey. But I want to talk |
| 2:07.8 | about Stonks because I think this is, this BuzzFeed story is actually kind of important and |
| 2:14.1 | interesting and marks an important new stage of the SPAC story that has been going on |
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