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. 

·       She has been as entrepreneurial and innovative with her career as the tech entrepreneurs she covers for a living. 

·       She feels Steve Jobs is the most consequential figure of the modern tech era.

·       She has called Mark Zuckerberg one of the most carelessly dangerous men in the history of technology.

·       “Excellence is doing your very best to get to the heart of something, doing your very best to create something fresh and new, and doing your very best to get it right.”

 

Notes:

Book: Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Podcasts: Pivot   On with Kara Swisher