Uber's IPO and, more importantly, Game of Thrones

Pivot

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News, News Commentary, Tech News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about Disney breaking into the content streaming business, the Uber IPO and, yes, Game of Thrones. Facebook actually gets a win this week for bringing on their first African American woman as a board member (but will she hold Zuckerberg to account?). YouTube very failed at getting accurate information on the burning of the Notre Dame cathedral. Prediction: the unicorn-class is the big loser of this year... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.0	Hi, everyone.
0:27.5	This is Pivot from the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:30.0	I'm Cara Swisher back in San Francisco.
0:32.5	And this has got Galawai.
0:34.1	I'm in my kitchen in San Francisco, so here we are.
0:37.2	Nice, nice.
0:38.8	All right, what are we talking about this week?
0:40.2	There's so much.
0:41.2	So much, there's so much.
0:42.2	I'm here to see a lot of moguls this week.
0:43.9	I'm visiting my mogul fest this week.
0:46.2	So I have a lot more next week when I'm done talking to all of them.
0:50.0	I'm talking pretty much all of them.
0:52.1	But big stories this week, I think I talked this morning to the BBC about the Disney,
0:56.2	about Netflix results, which were better than Wall Street expected.
1:00.4	But a lot of worries in their stock went down because of a number of things,
1:03.3	including possibly slowing subscribers.
1:06.4	They're the competition from Disney, which is selling a new service that is pretty much
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