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Dylan Taylor, the CEO of Voyager Space Holdings, comes on the show to talk about the business of space.

Mark Weinstein, the CEO of MeWe, comes on the show to talk about all things social. He talks about why he got into the social-networking space to begin with, why he thinks someone needs to take down Facebook, what a privacy-first social network looks like, and why government regulation alone won’t fix the social internet. Mark has … a lot of strong opinions, many of which I don’t agree with. But his perspective on this industry, as an upstart trying to take on a giant by doing everything differently, is a fascinating one.

This is our last episode of 2020, as we rest and regroup for 2021. Happy Holidays, and talk to you soon!

This week: Emily Birnbaum comes on the show to talk about the latest antitrust lawsuits, and which ones have an actual chance of succeeding. Then, Shakeel Hashim joins to talk about what’s going on with Robinhood, and why fintech regulation might come quicker than the rest of tech.

Margaret O’Mara comes on the show to talk about the things that make Silicon Valley unique, why the area grew so quickly as a tech center, and what other places could be next. (Spoiler alert: Austin’s on the list.) Margaret is a professor at the University of Washington, and the author most recently of “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.”

Phil Libin's pretty sure video is going to be huge. He's the CEO of All Turtles, the former CEO of Evernote, and most recently the co-founder and CEO of mmhmm, the app that makes every Zoom call a little more fun. He came on the show to explain why video is more than just video-chat meetings, why it'll matter even when people can go back to the office and the gym, and what every employee should learn from The Chainsmokers.

This week: Tom Krazit takes us through the biggest moments from AWS re:Invent, "the Super Bowl of cloud computing," then shares his thoughts on Salesforce's massive Slackquisition (1:25). Then, Issie Lapowsky comes on to talk about Ajit Pai leaving the FCC, why the White House is mad at Facebook, and how a complicated hacking lawsuit ended up in the Supreme Court (22:50).

This week: Shakeel Hashim on Airbnb, Affirm, Roblox and Wish going public, and Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on how he changed his company, and its product, to better support remote work.

This week: Shakeel Hashim on DoorDash and vaping Xboxes; Biz Carson on the boom in video apps; and Rippling’s Vanessa Wu on the complicated future of employee data, work-life balance and privacy in the office.

This week: Emily Birnbaum and Issie Lapowsky on how Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms fared during the never-ending Election Day, and iFixit’s Kyle Wiens on the right-to-repair movement’s big win in Massachusetts.

It’s election week, so we’re mostly talking about the election. First, Emily Birnbaum comes on to talk about the narratives and stories that matter this week, and the ones that don’t. Then, Biz Carson comes on to talk about the slow, cautious office reopenings happening all over San Francisco. And finally, investor and advisor Bradley Tusk comes on to talk about what the election means for the tech industry, what he’s been telling clients and LPs, and where the industry goes from here no matter who wins on Tuesday.