Kara Swisher in conversation with Ted Sarandos at Live Talks Los Angeles

Kara Swisher in conversation with Ted Sarandos at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing her book, "Burn Book" A Tech Love Story." The event took place on March 4, 2024.
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
Award-winning journalist Kara Swisher is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway. 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. A former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its Sway podcast, Swisher has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. This is her third book.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech’s most powerful players- the inside story we’ve all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. It’s a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
While tech titans bragged they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of “listening in the heating ducts” and for 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.’”
It’s only a slight exaggeration to say Swisher has interviewed everyone. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few who Swisher made sweat-figuratively and, in one famous case, literally.
Ted Sarandos was named co-CEO of Netflix in July 2020. He has been responsible for all content operations since 2000, and led the company’s transition into original content production that began in 2013 with the launch of the series House of Cards, Arrested Development and Orange Is the New Black among numerous others. Ted was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2013 and received the Producers Guild of America Milestone Award in 2019. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a trustee of the American Film Institute, and on the boards of Exploring the Arts and Spotify.

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One fascinating lady.

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So entertaining and fun - Ted is a great interviewer, and Kara of course is out of everyone's league.

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Where can we get a pair of those sunglasses? 😂

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Mark Cuban should be President one day.

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It's like when TV first became available. Radio had been so influential and very Real even with comedy shows and other entertainment. I remember my parents talking about the educational benefits of TV and what it could do. Under The Fairness Document there were checks and balances, guardrails, guidelines, and accountability. That's gone. Our New Zealand non-profit went online in 2000 prior to Keywords/algorithms. Several years later, keywords/analytics became widely available. we jumped from 10 people/day to over 3,000. Wow. Then analytics could trace back. 99.9% came from porn. We were selling a mixed media VHS, book, cassette in a box-set. I had put in the keywords: pink and video. That was sufficient to be the target of porn! I knew back then ... 'We're in for a boat full of trouble'. It's gotten worse since. Targeting to you and training the internet to yourself so you live in your own world yet marketing can find you because of your data! It's a huge disappointment all of this has happened.