Uber threatens to shutdown app over AB5, Airbnb's surprise IPO and a listener mail question about WFH with Andrew Ross Sorkin

Pivot

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4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Kara is joined by New York Times columnist, founder of Deal Book and CNBC Sqwuakbox Host Andrew Ross Sorkin to talk about Uber threatening to shut down their rideshare app in reaction to a new AB-5 ruling. They also discuss Airbnb's surprise IPO. In listener mail, we get a question about the future of working from home and how company cultures will change to the fit our new environment. In predictions, Andrew and Kara discuss the potential future cabinet of the Biden/Harris administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:06.3	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.6	Scott is out this week.
0:08.9	He's actually galavanting with David Gregory in Nantucket if you can believe it.
0:12.3	I got photographs proof last night.
0:15.0	It was disturbing.
0:16.2	And I'm joined by Andrew Ross Sorkin who he is deeply jealous of for a number of reasons
0:20.6	in Clotov.
0:21.6	But I'm deeply jealous of Nantucket.
0:22.8	What?
0:23.8	No, you aren't.
0:24.8	No, you are not.
0:25.8	You do not want to be there.
0:27.1	You are perfect where you are.
0:28.4	It is a sea of quarter-roy and white people.
0:32.5	And whale belts.
0:33.6	And white people.
0:34.6	It is really hot.
0:36.0	And it just says to me someday, like it's so flat, it's disturbing.
0:40.1	It's a disturbing, it's very pretty.
0:42.3	It's very pretty, but you are glad to be here.
0:44.5	I'm glad to be here.
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