Pivot

649 Episodes

1. The EU takes on AI, the US vs. Huawei continues, Airbnb is in the red, and a Friend of Pivot on your children’s data privacy

   Published: 2/18/2020
2. Amazon pays taxes (and fights for JEDI), SoftBank gains on Sprint and what ClassPass tells us about the fitness economy

   Published: 2/14/2020
3. The Oscars' rebrand, Uber’s ‘yoga babble’ earnings call, and Friend of Pivot Andrew Ross Sorkin calls Instagram the 'Super App'

   Published: 2/11/2020
4. Tech meltdown in Iowa, Sheryl Sandberg’s engagement (Kara and Scott debate), One Medical and US healthcare disruption and a Tesla prediction

   Published: 2/7/2020
5. IBM leadership shuffle, Amazon earnings, plus "Friend of Pivot” Jon Lovett pops in from Iowa to talk Trump’s inevitable ad operation

   Published: 2/4/2020
6. US budget deficit will hit $1-trillion; AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, FB earnings breakdown; and Britain sides with China on Huawei

   Published: 1/31/2020
7. Kara’s back in action; a listener question on WeWork’s impact on co-working companies, and a pop culture quiz

   Published: 1/28/2020
8. Bezos vs. the world, retail in India and Scott’s earnings predictions

   Published: 1/24/2020
9. Trillion dollar companies and tax season; how the “Black List” shapes Hollywood’s big business… and is podcasting coming for radio dollars?

   Published: 1/21/2020
10. Gloves off over privacy, from Apple to Microsoft to Grindr. PLUS Scott's big 2020 bets.

    Published: 1/17/2020
11. Will Casper go public? How will Softbank’s latest fail affect Asia? And how will Sundar Pichai move Google forward?

    Published: 1/14/2020
12. Social networks' minimum effort to be less toxic, Listener Mail from Australia, and fails at CES

    Published: 1/10/2020
13. Trump vs. Iran on Twitter, more on HQ2 incentives, and 'mandatory happiness'

    Published: 1/7/2020
14. California is regulating consumer data privacy, the gig economy revisited, and Tesla’s big stock spike.

    Published: 1/3/2020
15. "Friends of Pivot" breakdown the big stories of the decade

    Published: 12/27/2019
16. Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influence at Facebook, and prediction: “FedEx gets acquired"

    Published: 12/20/2019
17. What’s up with the China/US trade deal, why haven’t “smart guns” popularized, and who is going to stream the NFL?

    Published: 12/17/2019
18. Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement on encryption, and Amazon's plan for fashion

    Published: 12/13/2019
19. A letter to Twitter, Uber's data transparency, and Away proves startup culture is rough

    Published: 12/10/2019
20. CEO’s are out (literally), France's "digital service tax” is in, and 'innovator privilege’

    Published: 12/6/2019