is the leading voice on how Big Tech is colliding more and more with politics, media, and culture. On her podcast, Recode Decode, Swisher grills the most important leaders in America. In the past year, she’s made headlines with her one-on-one conversations with Mark Zuckerberg, Nancy Pelosi, Elon Musk, and Hillary Clinton.
Known for her no-BS, hard-hitting interview style, she pushes for answers to vexing questions. And she has no plans to stop exploring, exposing, and explaining the power dynamics across technology, politics, and media.
Now you can join us for a front-row seat to watch Swisher in action for a live recording of Recode Decode at Made by We.
There will be drinks, networking with other Recode fans, and the chance to meet Kara herself.
is the author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. His other books are The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from death row the white supremacist who tried to kill him, and India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking, about returning to the India his parents left.
He is an editor-at-large for Time, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for the New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly “Letter from America.” He has also written for the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Gabriel Weinberg is the CEO and founder of DuckDuckGo, the internet privacy company that empowers users to take control of their personal information online without any trade-offs. DuckDuckGo offers online privacy tools, including a non-tracking alternative to Google search and a mobile privacy browser and desktop browser extension that allows you to search and browse the web without being tracked.
Since 2008, Weinberg has grown DuckDuckGo from a self-funded operation out of his basement into a business with over $25 million in revenue and 50 employees across multiple continents. He’s the co-author of Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth and a forthcoming book on mental models. Weinberg has been profiled in the Washington Post and Fast Company and is routinely quoted in publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He holds a BS with honors from MIT in physics and an MS from the MIT Technology and Policy Program. He resides with his wife and kids in Valley Forge, PA, and is on Twitter: @yegg.
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