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Veteran technology journalist and New York Times contributing opinion writer Kara Swisher joined us on May 13 for a Munk Dialogue on the future of Big Tech and Silicon Valley after COVID19. Click the "play" button to the left to watch the conversation.
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The World After COVID19 - The Future of Big Tech and Silicon Valley
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"When this crisis is over, we most certainly should fear Big Tech more because these companies will be freer than ever, with many fewer strictures on them from regulators and politicians."
Kara Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Swisher co-founded Recode and, before that, co-produced and co-hosted The Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference series (now called the Code conference) with Walt Mossberg starting in 2003. It was, and still is, the country's premier conference on tech and media, with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google leadership, Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and many other leading players. She and Mossberg were also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com, founded in 2007.
Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.