Uber offers to gobble up GrubHub, Elon Musk is “Re-open America guy”, and a prediction on mergers in digital media

Pivot

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Technology, News Commentary, News, Tech News

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Kara and Scott talk about Uber's offer to buy GrubHub, which would give the company a majority of food delivery market share. They talk about whether this merger would be good for Uber (yes) and whether it would be bad for the commonwealth (also, yes). Meanwhile, Elon Musk is reopening the Tesla factory in California, and his mother is texting Kara about how harsh she's being on her son. In Listener Mail we get a question about companies taking back their upfront ad deals with the major television networks and how that will shake things up in the industry. Scott's prediction is that we are about to see mergers in smaller digital media companies. 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.
0:05.9	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.7	And I'm Scott Galloway and Cara, I received my stimulus check but I got it and checked currency.
0:13.0	Anybody else?
0:14.0	Did that happen?
0:15.0	Anybody else?
0:16.0	You didn't get it.
0:17.0	You better not have gotten a stimulus check.
0:18.8	No, I didn't.
0:19.8	And now I'm not applying for PPP like all of my wealthy friends.
0:22.5	They better not.
0:23.5	You better not.
0:24.5	I'm not going to speak to you if you do that.
0:25.5	You don't take money out of the mouths of like real actual small businesses.
0:30.5	You do not be.
0:31.5	I want a virtue signal and be indignant on the podcast.
0:34.5	No, I'm not taking it.
0:35.5	I'm not taking it.
0:36.5	I was really, I told you we were actually taking it out of court.
0:40.5	We have a lot to get to.
0:41.5	There is a lot of news.
0:42.5	I have Elon Musk's mother mad at me right now.
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