The Silicon Bubble Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Silicon Valley hiring practices, free lunches, and stock buybacks on this week's episode with Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski. In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss allegations of sexual misconduct involving CBS’s Les Moonves. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck. Production by Laura Flynn and June Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:12.0	Hello, wow that was an amazing one.
0:14.0	Hello folks.
0:15.0	Ah, I feel like my voice is breaking all over again.
0:18.0	Welcome, I am your 13 year old host
0:22.0	Mr. Felix Salmon and you are listening to Slate Money, your guide to the
0:28.4	Business and Finance News of the Week as ever. We are going to take the biggest story in business and
0:34.8	finance of the week and completely ignore it because there is absolutely nothing
0:39.2	to say about this trillion dollar market cap thing. It's a lot.
0:43.0	Apparently a trillion is a lot of dollars. Who knew?
0:48.0	Welcome Anna Shimansky.
0:50.0	Hello. Who is the resident math nerd and so she can tell us that 1 trillion is a lot of dollars?
0:55.8	Yes.
0:56.8	And welcome also to Emily Beck of the Huffington Post.
1:00.4	Hello.
1:01.9	Who is here to, I feel like we've brought you in for your dungeon today because we are talking
1:08.8	about Silicon Valley and the rules or the lack of rules or the lack of norms and how they
1:17.0	trample over societal norms in various different ways. We are going to talk about stock buybacks which is a big
1:25.8	thing in Silicon Valley and we can talk a little bit about what that means for
1:30.8	things like I don't know house prices in Mountain View.
1:34.2	We are going to talk about the whole question of where do you eat lunch if you work at a
1:42.0	tech company in San Francisco.
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