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Episode: Recode Decode: "Zucked" author Roger McNamee
Description: Elevation Partners founding partner Roger McNamee talks with Recodeās Kara Swisher about his new book, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.In this episode: Transitioning from tech optimist to critic; the 1990 crash and rebound; starting Silver Lake Partners; McNameeās health crisis and struggles with office politics; āthen Bono calls upā; meeting and mentoring the 22-year-old CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg; recruiting Sheryl Sandberg to be COO; the Beacon disaster and clashing with Sandberg; the suspicious early warning signs in 2016; speaking out against Facebook and the cost of becoming an activist; why McNamee wrote Zucked; trying t...