Kara Swisher: Tech journalist, digital media entrepreneur, and pioneer

Kara Swisher is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the co-host of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and co-executive producer of the Code conference. She was a former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its Sway podcast and has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Her latest book it titled: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.

 

Some interesting insights from this episode:

·       Her father’s passing when she was just five made her appreciate the ephemeral nature of life and focus on what truly matters.

·       A lot of big tech titans have a big deficit in their upbringing and replace it with enablers and fence themselves off from the population, hence their isolation and loneliness. 

·       With her direct no nonsense approach, she has an uncanny ability to get big people to open up and share unique insights. 

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