The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.
Wait, The Robots Didn't Take Our Jobs? — With Erik Brynjolfsson
35 mins; June 02, 2022
Can The Media Fix Its Trust Problem? — With Nicholas Thompson
56 mins; May 31, 2022
Why Elites Are Losing Trust — With Vivian Schiller
54 mins; May 27, 2022
Do We Need Web3? — With Gavin Wood
60 hours 50 mins; May 25, 2022
Do We Need The Metaverse? — With Nick Clegg
48 mins; May 24, 2022
Optimism In A Tech Downturn — With Packy McCormick and Austin Rief
55 mins; May 18, 2022
A Debate About NFTs — With Jason Stein
62 hours 34 mins; May 11, 2022
Was Tim Cook The Right Choice For Apple? — With Tripp Mickle
62 hours 30 mins; May 07, 2022
Tech Stock Armageddon — With Rich Greenfield
54 mins; May 04, 2022
Elon's Plan to Fix Twitter — With Alex Roetter
52 mins; April 27, 2022
What The Heck Happened To SPACs — With Charles Duhigg
47 mins; April 20, 2022
Emergency Podcast: Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter — With Ranjan Roy
35 mins; April 14, 2022
God, 'The Current Thing,' And Apple — With Antonio Garcia Martinez
69 hours 36 mins; April 13, 2022
Twitter's Elon Musk Era Begins — With Christopher Mims
48 mins; April 06, 2022
Can Apple's Culture Handle Dissent? — With Cher Scarlett
61 hours 47 mins; March 30, 2022
Of Oligarchs and Billionaires — With Teddy Schleifer
55 mins; March 23, 2022
How Apple Upended Digital Advertising — With Orchid Bertelsen and David Herrmann
64 hours 34 mins; March 16, 2022
Russia and The Information War — With Miriam Elder
54 mins; March 09, 2022
What's Next For Our Crazy Economy — With Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey
46 mins; March 02, 2022
Doing Business With Zuckerberg and Bezos — With Donald Graham
69 hours 9 mins; February 23, 2022
Programming The Code of Life With CRISPR — With Trevor Martin, CEO of Mammoth Biosciences
56 mins; February 16, 2022
Crypto Scams, Big Tech Tumult, and Tech Optimism— With Kara Swisher
62 hours 42 mins; February 11, 2022
Meta's Stock Plunge + Market Volatility — With Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management
51 mins; February 09, 2022
Digital Publishing’s Next Evolution — With Brian Morrissey
73 hours 26 mins; February 02, 2022
How Tech Can Actually Help Mental Health — With Ex-National Institute of Mental Health director Dr. Tom Insel
56 mins; January 26, 2022
The Rise Of Conservative Social Media — With The New Yorker's Clare Malone and Stanford's David Thiel
61 hours 22 mins; January 19, 2022
Tech Regulation's Crucial Year — With Sen. Mark Warner
49 mins; January 12, 2022
Web3 And The Future Of The Internet — With Box CEO Aaron Levie
60 hours 46 mins; January 05, 2022
2021 In Review, 2022 Predictions — With Casey Newton
53 mins; December 29, 2021
The Theranos Trial Concludes — With NPR's Bobby Allyn
59 mins; December 22, 2021
Apple Nears $3 Trillion + The Truth About Web3 — With Benedict Evans
76 hours 41 mins; December 15, 2021
Getting AI To Think And Learn Like Humans — With Daniel Kahneman and Yann LeCun
68 hours 54 mins; December 08, 2021
Managing Omicron With Data From Wastewater? — With Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus of Biobot Analytics
59 mins; December 01, 2021
Inflation and The Great Resignation — With SoFi Head of Investment Strategy Liz Young and Margins’ Ranjan Roy
56 mins; November 24, 2021
Inside Spotify's War With Apple — With Spotify Chief Legal Officer Horacio Gutierrez
61 hours 29 mins; November 17, 2021
The Venture Capitalist Who Can't Lose — With Zach Coelius
70 hours 12 mins; November 10, 2021
The Motivations of Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen — With Her Lawyer Lawrence Lessig
60 hours 2 mins; November 03, 2021
Are We Having a Moral Panic About Instagram? — With NYT's Farhad Manjoo
63 hours 59 mins; October 27, 2021
Amazon Rigs Search, Social Media 'Ampliganda,' Netflix Protests — With Adrianne Jeffries, Renee DiResta, and Zoë Schiffer
81 hours 5 mins; October 20, 2021
Is Social Media A Scapegoat For Bigger Problems? — With Charlie Warzel at Unfinished Live
41 mins; October 13, 2021
Why Facebook Will Keep Building For Kids — With Michael Sayman
60 hours 18 mins; October 06, 2021
Amazon Builds a Robot and Threatens Apple — With Wired's Lauren Goode
45 mins; September 30, 2021
Unraveling The Mystery Of Peter Thiel — With Max Chafkin
81 hours 27 mins; September 22, 2021
A Look Into Facebook's Soul — With WSJ's Jeff Horwitz and Ex-FB Exec. Brian Boland
57 mins; September 18, 2021
Inside The Theranos Trial — With Erin Griffith of The New York Times
53 mins; September 15, 2021
How The Music Industry Predicts The Future — With Zack O'Malley Greenburg
60 hours 3 mins; September 08, 2021
The Platform Delusion — With Columbia Business Professor Jonathan Knee
54 mins; September 02, 2021
Are We Actually Addicted To Our Phones? — With Nir Eyal
76 hours 40 mins; August 26, 2021
Can We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman
51 mins; August 18, 2021
The Motivations Of Facebook Reporters, And Their Sources — With Ugly Truth Author Sheera Frenkel
42 mins; August 11, 2021
The Risks of TikTok's Rise — With Bloomberg's Shelly Banjo
56 mins; August 04, 2021
Regime Change In Cuba, Through Internet Access? — With FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr
46 mins; July 28, 2021
The Definitive WeWork Story — With Eliot Brown And Maureen Farrell
73 hours 0 mins; July 21, 2021
Newsletters and The Culture Wars — With Substack CEO Chris Best
62 hours 25 mins; July 14, 2021
She Advocated For Women, Then Microsoft Pushed Her Off Its Board — With Maria Klawe
60 hours 32 mins; July 07, 2021
How Gen Z Dates Online — With Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone
55 mins; June 30, 2021
How Big Tech Influence Shops Shape The Antitrust Conversation In Washington — with Adam Kovacevich
51 mins; June 24, 2021
Crossover With The Realignment: Can Tech Survive Washington’s Onslaught?
67 hours 54 mins; June 22, 2021
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Meme Stocks, Bitcoin, SPACs, and Elon Musk
69 hours 35 mins; June 16, 2021
Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Breaks Goes Independent
45 mins; June 09, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Juul, With The Devil's Playbook Author Lauren Etter
64 hours 48 mins; June 02, 2021
New York Times Reporter Jack Nicas On Apple Vs. Epic Games and Apple In China
51 mins; May 26, 2021
Professor Scott Galloway On Whether Our Economy Is Rigged (And What To Do About It)
49 mins; May 19, 2021
Amazon Unbound Author Brad Stone On How Nerdy Bezos Turned Into Ripped Bezos
43 mins; May 12, 2021
Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
55 mins; May 06, 2021
Facebook Oversight Board Member Julie Owono Takes Us Inside The Trump Decision
41 mins; May 05, 2021
Doge, Bitcoin, NFTs, and Capital Gains: Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk of Margins Demystify Our Economy
69 hours 16 mins; April 28, 2021
Facebook vs. Clubhouse vs. Spotify vs. Apple: Casey Newton Returns
49 mins; April 21, 2021
How Amazon Automated My Job: A Conversation With Elaine Kwon
48 mins; April 14, 2021
The Uneasy Amazon Coalition, With Fulfillment Author Alec MacGillis
54 mins; April 07, 2021
Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on The Criticism of Tech Criticism
69 hours 31 mins; March 31, 2021
BuzzFeed News executive editor Mat Honan on the "Zoom Class," NFTs, and San Francisco
51 mins; March 24, 2021
Why Rest of World wants to change international tech news, with Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis
50 mins; March 17, 2021
Bonus: Senator Amy Klobuchar On How Congress Will Take On Big Tech
19 mins; March 13, 2021
Twitter Product Head Kayvon Beykpour On The Story Behind Twitter’s Revival
55 mins; March 10, 2021
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Jobs? A Conversation with Kevin Roose, NYT Columnist and Futureproof author
53 mins; March 09, 2021
WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart on Privacy, Content Moderation, and Apple
49 mins; March 03, 2021
Arab Spring Leader Wael Ghonim on Modern Social Media's Promise And Peril
72 hours 5 mins; February 24, 2021
Three Mayors On The Future Of Tech in the U.S.
65 hours 27 mins; February 16, 2021
Bonus: India vs. Twitter, with Pranav Dixit of BuzzFeed News
47 mins; February 13, 2021
Will Amazon Be Kinder After Jeff Bezos? A Conversation With Recode's Jason Del Rey
26 mins; February 10, 2021
Glenn Greenwald on Substack, Content Moderation, and Joe Rogan
38 mins; February 03, 2021
Emergency Podcast: The Story Behind Gamestop, A Conversation With Ranjan Roy of Margins
54 mins; January 29, 2021
The U.S. and Tech After Trump: A Conversation With the Realignment's Marshall Kosloff and Saagar Enjeti
67 hours 45 mins; January 27, 2021
Under Biden, Bipartisan Vengeance On Social Media? A Conversation With Bradley Tusk
59 mins; January 20, 2021
Should Facebook and Twitter Have Banned Donald Trump? A Conversation With Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News
72 hours 59 mins; January 13, 2021
Does YouTube Radicalize? A Debate Between NYT's Kevin Roose and Software Engineer Mark Ledwich
60 hours 29 mins; January 06, 2021
Cult Deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross On NXIVM, QAnon, and What Makes Us Vulnerable
52 mins; December 23, 2020
Peloton Instructor Emma Lovewell on At-Home Fitness and Stadium-Sized Rides
51 mins; December 16, 2020
Gary Vaynerchuk and TikTok’s Blake Chandlee on the ‘Ban’ and TikTok’s Future
36 mins; December 09, 2020
Ex-Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael on Autonomous Driving, Saudi Arabia, and Uber’s Culture
58 mins; December 02, 2020
Will the Government Break Up Instagram and Facebook? A Conversation With ‘No Filter’ Author Sarah Frier
58 mins; November 25, 2020
Investor, Activist Swati Mylavarapu: Tech World Must “Get Uncomfortable” With Its Impact On Society
38 mins; November 18, 2020
Homebrew VC Hunter Walk Talks Twitter, TikTok, and Tech in the Time of Biden
58 mins; November 11, 2020
Election Results Breakdown With The Daily Beast Editor In Chief Noah Shachtman
35 mins; November 04, 2020
Lincoln Project Co-Founder Steve Schmidt: “The Pro-Democracy Side Of This Argument Cannot Be Gentle”
51 mins; October 28, 2020
Google Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Tech Activism and the Deep Flaws of ‘The Social Dilemma’
42 mins; October 21, 2020
Emergency Podcast: Department of Justice vs. Google with Yelp's Luther Lowe
27 mins; October 20, 2020
New York Times’ Ben Smith Talks Slack, Newsroom Politics, And Tech Regulation
36 mins; October 14, 2020
Netflix's 'Social Dilemma' Star Tristan Harris on the Film and Its Criticisms
