Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Spotify’s podcast boom, Amazon checks out JCPenny, Kara loves TikTok and a prediction on Shopify
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Spotify's new deal with Joe Rogan and the implications for the podcast ind...
The DOJ readies a lawsuit against Google, Amazon tries to get into designer retail again, and a Friend of Pivot on the “plandemic”
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook purchasing Giphy and reports the DOJ is likely to sue Google for ...
Uber offers to gobble up GrubHub, Elon Musk is “Re-open America guy”, and a prediction on mergers in digital media
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Uber's offer to buy GrubHub, which would give the company a majority of fo...
Amazon might acquire AMC theaters and Friend of Pivot Stephanie Ruhle on business, CARES Act, wins and fails
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Amazon in talks to acquire AMC theaters, Uber earnings and how education w...
Facebook's oversight board is the "League of Nations", Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky's master class on leadership, and a prediction about Uber's numbers
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's new oversight board and whether it will be effective in control...
Congress weighs liability for businesses, Amazon will put its $4billion profit into its supply chain, and Anand Giridharadas on "Rich Corona; Poor Corona"
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about whether or not Congress should give businesses legal protections against l...
Facebook pushes e-commerce business, Uber in trouble, eyes on Amazon Media Group… and a prediction: Sonos gets acquired
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook earnings during the pandemic and the company's push into e-commer...
Amazon under scrutiny; Zoom security expert Alex Stamos explains it all (and talks Facebook), plus some special Wins and Fails
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Senate Democrats being vocal about breaking up Amazon, after a report that...
Netflix’s Reed Hastings has a huge quarter, Facebook makes big investment in India, Bezos takes the reins at Amazon
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Netflix's biggest quarter yet. The company doubled its projections for how...
Andreessen tells Silicon Valley it’s “time to build”, Facebook/Google’s ad market hit, Friend of Pivot Rebecca Traister on women’s leadership
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Marc Andreessen's manifesto to Silicon Valley. They also discuss the PPP a...
World Health Organization in the crosshairs, the robot revolution, Softbank's struggling Vision Fund and a big prediction: Amazon is going to be a $2 trillion company by 2020
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott evaluate President Trump's recent business decisions from defunding the W.H.O., to hi...
Google and Apple team up to track COVID-19, Uber drivers face unemployment hurdles, and Robert Reich says 30% of people may be out of work by summer
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about tech giants Google and Apple teaming up to track COVID-19 cases on iPhones...
Dorsey donates 28% of his wealth to COVID-19, Zoom as the poster child for tech privacy and the video-game industry as Amazon enters the production game
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Jack Dorsey's $1 billion donation to fight COVID-19, as well as other tech...
Zoom isn’t as “encrypted” as you think, tech regulation amidst COVID-19, and economist Gene Sperling on being in a “jobs depression”
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about privacy issues at Zoom as we move our doctor's appointments, work, therapy...
Sean Hannity has a meltdown. Twitter, Facebook and Google tackle misinformation. Softbank abandons WeWork. PLUS Quibi gets a break.
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Sean Hannity defending his work at Fox News (after Kara called him out for...
The Internet is buckling under COVID-19 pressure, Esther Perel on our relationships in quarantine, and the possible Fox News reckoning
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Internet slow downs and how companies are coping as the country starts liv...
Zoom stock surpasses airlines; MLB, NBA, Olympics are on pause — what happens to the media that covers them? And a Listener Mail about relief package guardrails.
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Zoom's immense stock value in this moment and what the company should do w...
Stimulus package stalled, how Airbnb, Tesla and Uber fare during COVID-19, and Corey Johnson (NYC Speaker) on small businesses and New York on “PAUSE"
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the stimulus package in limbo and the Defense Production Act. They break d...
Addressing the US economy (a note from Andrew Yang), data privacy in a public health emergency, and a listener question on the "great WFH-experiment”
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about stimulus packages and possible emergency checks to deal with the US econom...
The private/public partnership to stop Covid-19, Facebook’s board sees more shakeups, and Kara’s brother Dr. Jeff Swisher on hospitals prepping for coronavirus
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the announced public/private partnerships between major companies and the ...
Tech in the time of COVID-19, Congressional antitrust hearing and Google Search, PLUS a listener asks: could Amazon Care roll out COVID-19 tests?
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about COVID-19, what tech could do to help, and what we need to see from leaders...
Twitter’s new board, Silicon Valley vs. Washington’s approach to COVID-19, and Aminatou Sow joins to discuss women in leadership
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the deal reached at Twitter, the fate of Jack Dorsey and his tenure as CEO...
Fed cuts interest rates (and banks lobby for deregulation), Facebook’s Libra fades… Dorsey’s next move and moments of happiness
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts and big banks asking for deregula...
S&P hits a low, Jack Dorsey faces activist investors at Twitter and election technology — Kevin Roose joins to discuss
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
.Kara and Scott talk about the stock market's recent lows -- and how that may be a good thing for mi...
Bob Iger exits — what’s going on at Disney? The stock market takes a coronavirus hit. PLUS Is “coffee” a disruptable industry?
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott speculate about what is happening at Disney following Bob Iger's abrupt exit. They ta...
Coronavirus hits the global supply chain, the demise of at-home-trading and updates on the Saudi infiltration of Twitter
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the spread of coronavirus and how it is affecting the global supply chain....
The debate after the debate (Kara and Scott assess Nevada), Bezos and Buffet: who is the “better” billionaire and a big prediction on Zoom
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott have a lot of thoughts about the Nevada debate and how the candidates should be marke...
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
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the big players in Silicon Valley headed to the EU where they are debating...
Amazon pays taxes (and fights for JEDI), SoftBank gains on Sprint and what ClassPass tells us about the fitness economy
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about what it means for Amazon to be paying (minimal) taxes, as Jeff Bezos is "g...
The Oscars' rebrand, Uber’s ‘yoga babble’ earnings call, and Friend of Pivot Andrew Ross Sorkin calls Instagram the 'Super App'
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about The Oscar's and how the award is being rebranded. They discuss Uber's most...
Tech meltdown in Iowa, Sheryl Sandberg’s engagement (Kara and Scott debate), One Medical and US healthcare disruption and a Tesla prediction
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about technical difficulties at the Iowa caucuses. They disagree about whether S...
IBM leadership shuffle, Amazon earnings, plus "Friend of Pivot” Jon Lovett pops in from Iowa to talk Trump’s inevitable ad operation
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about IBM's new CEO as the company struggles to keep up with cloud computing. Th...
US budget deficit will hit $1-trillion; AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, FB earnings breakdown; and Britain sides with China on Huawei
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the Congressional Budget Office projecting that the U.S. budget deficit wi...
Kara’s back in action; a listener question on WeWork’s impact on co-working companies, and a pop culture quiz
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the spread of coronavirus and how it is affecting China. They discuss how ...
Bezos vs. the world, retail in India and Scott’s earnings predictions
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott co-hosts with Erica Anderson (Pivot's indomitable Executive Producer!) and they talk about the...
Trillion dollar companies and tax season; how the “Black List” shapes Hollywood’s big business… and is podcasting coming for radio dollars?
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara talk about Google becoming the world's fourth trillion-dollar company ... and who is actually p...
Gloves off over privacy, from Apple to Microsoft to Grindr. PLUS Scott's big 2020 bets.
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott argue about whether the government should have the right to hack into phones of suspe...
Will Casper go public? How will Softbank’s latest fail affect Asia? And how will Sundar Pichai move Google forward?
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Casper's S-1 and how it compares to other internet retail companies like A...
Social networks' minimum effort to be less toxic, Listener Mail from Australia, and fails at CES
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Facebook's decision not to change their political ad policies. They also d...
Trump vs. Iran on Twitter, more on HQ2 incentives, and 'mandatory happiness'
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about how Trump has been escalating US conflict with Iran on Twitter. They also ...
California is regulating consumer data privacy, the gig economy revisited, and Tesla’s big stock spike.
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are back to talk about a suite of new regulations in California that will give consum...
"Friends of Pivot" breakdown the big stories of the decade
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott look back at the 2010s and the biggest stories of the decade with the help of some fr...
Impeachment… it happened, Peter Thiel’s influence at Facebook, and prediction: “FedEx gets acquired"
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about what impeachment might mean for business. Also they talk about Peter Thiel...
What’s up with the China/US trade deal, why haven’t “smart guns” popularized, and who is going to stream the NFL?
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the "Phase One" trade agreement between the US and China and what it means...
Netflix Golden Globe noms, bipartisan agreement on encryption, and Amazon's plan for fashion
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Congress' hearing on regulating end-to-end encryption on messaging apps. T...
A letter to Twitter, Uber's data transparency, and Away proves startup culture is rough
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about a letter Scott wrote to the board about concerns at Twitter. They discuss ...
CEO’s are out (literally), France's "digital service tax” is in, and 'innovator privilege’
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about leaderships shifts at Google -- Larry and Sergey are out and Sundar Pichai...
Dorsey moves to Africa and streaming platforms trump movie theaters
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Pivot 2x! Our first twice weekly episode. Kara and Scott talk about the future of Twitter...
London gives Uber the boot, the billionaire's 2020 strategy, and streaming wars continue
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Uber getting kicked out of its biggest EU market, London. They parse out t...
Trump lies about Apple, HBOMax fumbles its brand, Juul gets sued
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about how Apple CEO Tim Cook, let Trump get away with lying about being responsi...
Big Tech wants to be your wallet and your healthcare provider. What could go wrong?
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about all the Silicon Valley companies rolling out credit cards and checking acc...
Twitter and the Saudis, Facebook’s 'Switcharoo', and the 2020 digital ads race
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about former Twitter employees who were spying on user data for Saudi Arabia. Th...
Twitter will stop running political ads ... your move, Facebook
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott celebrate Jack Dorsey announcing that Twitter will not be running political ads anymo...
The screw-up-billionaire, quantum computers, and the skewering of Zuckerberg
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott take a victory lap as SoftBank buys out Adam Neumann, the founder of weWork for a coo...
Mark Zuckerberg the free speech jester, and Marc Benioff the class traitor
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott met up at Stanford University (where they were both rejected from) for a live Pivot! ...
LIVE at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC!
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott meet up at the Podcast Upfronts in NYC. And we make a special announcement...wait for...
Going after venture capital culture and the unicorn industrial complex
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about feuds with VC's, billionaires paying fewer taxes than the working class an...
Mark Zuckerberg’s leaky staff and the silver lining to WeWork’s downfall
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Someone inside Facebook secretly recorded Mark Zuckerberg for two hours and sent the audio to The Ve...
LIVE from Toronto, Kara and Scott go international!
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are live at the Elevate in Toronto -- Pivot's first international appearance! They ta...
Uber is 'disruptive and drunk', weWork is 'just drunk', and Pivot turns 1!
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Happy 1st anniversary to Pivot! Kara and Scott talk about weWork's halted IPO (we'll take partial cr...
'I love Amazon. Let's break it up'
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott joins Land of the Giants host, Jason Del Rey, live on stage at the Code Commerce conference in...
LIVE! From the Lesbians Who Tech Summit
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk at the annual Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City. Scott is dubbed a #LezB...
Is Uber super f*cked? Let’s ask “Super Pumped” author Mike Isaac
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott bring on NYTimes reporter, Mike Isaac, to talk about his new book "Super Pumped: the ...
Peloton “sells happiness” and bedbugs take over Twitter
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk Peloton's S-1 ... is it the WeWork of exercise or an innovation in happiness? Th...
DoorDash is still stealing tips. And is Tesla for sale?
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are back in the studio to talk about Trump bringing foreign policy to Twitter, state ...
LIVE! From NYC it's Kara and Scott
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott meet up in New York City for an extra, unfiltered Pivot in front of a live audience. ...
Sharks, WeWork & Tumblr's tumble from grace
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott take on sharks, summer in New England, WeWork's IPO and Tumblr's fall. They also talk...
Hate on 8chan and why Scott's not quitting Equinox
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Cloudfare dropping 8chan after its latest link to domestic terrorism and h...
Facebook wants to read your mind. What could possibly go wrong?
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the debates and how questions about big tech...well, didn't really come up...
The Mueller hearing, Facebook's fine, and revisiting The Case of Al Franken
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, your hosts Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway revisit the democratic presidential nominee ra...
Peter Thiel is Pennywise, Trump's racist tweets, and Kara meets the Yang Gang
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Scott wants to scoop on all of Kara's interviews with presidential candidates. Then, Scot...
Epstein's Out, Rapinoe's In, Plus a Social Media-Less Summit
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway are together in D.C.; we repeat: they are together in D.C....
Fish and Chips and Biden and Harris and Reddit and Twitter
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kara calls in from London! In addition to their excitement for the Women's World Cup, Sco...
TikTok, Time's Up on Facebook's Content Moderation Sites
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Scott Galloway is away, Kara Swisher will play... with The Verge's Casey Newton! This week, Kar...
Facebook's New Money and Slack's New Valuation
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kara is in New York! And Scott's in... France? So close yet so far as usual, our hosts ch...
Pivot LIVE! From the 2019 Code Conference
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Pivot is live from the Code Conference in Arizona. Kara and Scott talk regulations for t...
The FTC and DOJ are Stayin' Alive, and YouTube backtracks on bigotry
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Kara and Scott talk breaking down the big boys (Facebook, Google, etc) and YouTube kickin...
Deepfake takedowns, white supremacy on Twitter, and the companies boycotting anti-abortion states
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pivot takes up the internet-age-old question of Facebook's responsibilities as a media company. And,...
Medium's "Shampoo Effect," and Tesla, coming undone?
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts opine on Medium, L'Oreal, and Quora. Scott critiques WeWork's EBITDA reporting, as well as...
Alabama's big fail, Uber's disastrous IPO, and the Facebook breakup debate
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Recode's Kara Swisher and NYU's Scott Galloway discuss Chris Hughes' Facebook breakup proposal, Away...
Chris Hughes' Case Against Facebook, Strikes on IPO Week, GoT vs Avengers
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Union Scott" shows up to discuss the work stoppages at Uber and Lyft. Kara asks whether tech money ...
Facebook's privacy fakeout, WeWork's reckless IPO, and Reagan the welfare queen
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott discuss Facebook's new focus on privacy; what comes after the Web 3.0 era; and what O...
The FTC & the "Algebra of Deterrence"
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the FTC's fine on Facebook -- it's basically a "parking ticket". They also...
Uber's IPO and, more importantly, Game of Thrones
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Disney breaking into the content streaming business, the Uber IPO and, yes...
Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Washington ... again
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Congressional hearings on tech platforms responsibility for spreading whit...
"It's not a meritocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy"
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about the avalanche of recent Facebook news -- including Zuckerberg's new profes...
Will the rising tide of ride sharing Lyft all boats?
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott and Kara are skeptical of Lyft's IPO. What exactly is the network effect of ride shares? Also,...
Does social media cause terrorism?
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about terrorism against the Muslim community in New Zealand and how social media...
LIVE! From SXSW it's Kara and Scott
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are live in Austin, Texas for SXSW. They talk antitrust, the breakdown of big tech an...
Facebook says it’s all about privacy now. OK, sure.
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are back! They talk about Zuckerberg's supposed shift towards more privacy on Faceboo...
News flash: Facebook’s contractors are people
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara brings on her former co-host, Wired senior staff writer and Gadget Lab co-host, Lauren Goode. T...
DC is old news. “The universe revolves around Silicon Valley”
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara brings on co-host, legendary NYTimes journalist, Maureen Dowd. They talk about how Silicon Vall...
Hot Take: Amazon HQ2 breaks up with NYC
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott pop back into the studio to give their hot takes on Amazon pulling out of their HQ2 d...
Is this the year big tech gets regulated? (Probably not.)
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott blusters in from his breakfast with Congress on how to regulate big tech — so Kara and Scott...
Hot Take: Scott Galloway on Bezos vs. AMI [BOOM!]
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BONUS episode: Scott couldn't wait to tell Pivot listeners what he thinks about Bezos' post accusing...
Happy(ish) birthday, Facebook.
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott (sort of) celebrate Facebook's 15th birthday. With pop-ins and hot takes from a coupl...
Cook vs. Zuckerberg vs. consumer privacy
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about Apple and Facebook's latest gaffes and how Apple might be the only force l...
MAGA teens, Fyre Fest and Twitter wars
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott talk about how Twitter duped us all again. Scott is fresh off a conference where both...
"Woke" is the 2019 business strategy
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kara and Scott are back together again! This week they catch up on Jeff Bezos' divorce and his not s...
Tech addiction and how it might be ruining Gen Z
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scott brings on a guest-host, his NYU colleague and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt. Learn more ab...