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Motion Sketch: "A few things are absolutely clear: More people across the globe get their news and cues from social media, it has a scary ability to generate anxiety and rage, and it is addictive. Expert after expert I talked to over the years has m
Motion sketch for Kara Swisher 's Burn Book, A Tech Love Story: "Everything that can be digitized, will be digitized."   Upon being able to download a whole book for the first time, she discovered: "I knew I had struck gold. I was fully on boa
“Silicon Valley had perfected the image of itself as a meritocracy and touted that as one of its greatest strengths— that anyone could become a billionaire. In fact, tech has always been a mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection
“As it turned out, it was capitalism after all.” The first line in the book highlights what we’ll learn from many examples later on. While interviewing Mark Zuckerberg, Swisher notes: “You can still make choices, I told a man who did not want to mak
“I would consider what I thought were someone’s accomplishments, including innovative products, visionary ideas, management skills, cool inventions, ability to pivot, and general flexibility. Then, I’d match these achievements against my highly subj
“Casual hypocrisy became increasingly common over the decades that I covered Silicon Valley’s elite. With some exceptions, the richer and more powerful people grew, the more compromised they became— wrapping themselves in expensive cashmere batting
"When the truth stands between a man and his next $100 million, the truth is always going to be escorted off the premises. More to the point was that this investor, like so many others, had become morally bankrupt, backing ever more cretinous charac
"I called Facebook, Twitter, and Google “digital arms dealers”, warned of the warping of Twitter by Trump, the glacial panic of Hollywood when it came to digital, the need for an Internet Bill of Rights, and the dangers of Chinese Communist Party su
"What none of these CEOs wanted to admit were the real reasons they flocked to the wolf’s gilded den: There was a heap of money at stake, and to avoid a lot of damage the incoming Trump administration could do to the tech sector. Tech execs wanted v
"I have spent my career being hard on powerful people. I have done so because I think it is respectful to do so and because I believe that with great power comes great responsibility. That line and sentiment go far back in history, although they’re
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