Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

Kara Swisher with Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley's Burn Book


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While tech titans bragged they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news.

She has been a fixture of the tech revolution, and her consistent scoops led Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to once say: “It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this.’”

Now Swisher returns to talk about her new book, which is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech’s most powerful players. She might know more inside tales than anyone else in Silicon Valley, and she’ll share the inside story of the Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.

Despite tech’s many pitfalls, Swisher remains optimistic about its potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again.

Hear more from the chronicler of the high-tech revolution.

Note: This podcast contains explicit language.

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