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Its curtains were drawn, but Swisher pushed open the door and strode blithely through. Around a U-shaped table, more than a dozen tech notables enjoying a meal with expensive wine looked up in surprise.

People who are powerful today sought her advice when they were just starting out. She was at the pitch meeting for TiVo. I try to get one really good one a week. Over the past decade, Arrington and Swisher have ostensibly been the two major power brokers of tech reporting, though each would recoil at being lumped together.

This included taking stakes in small companies even as he was writing about them. Many of her subjects are centimillionaires and billionaires who seem typically to operate beyond the reach of press scrutiny, yet Swisher has become a power broker among them, in part by perfecting the art of reporting as hazing. All kinds of powers have been darkly imputed to Swisher. The combination of access and toughness has made Swisher a preeminent arbiter of status in a Silicon Valley where constant turmoil is taken as a sign of innovation and vitality.

People like talking to Swisher. She gives good text. At least I know the history and context. Swisher has always treated the world as a thing to be confronted without apology.

Even when she was a toddler, her mother had named her Tempesta. When she was 5, her year-old father, an anaesthesiologist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and until Swisher reached that age, she was convinced that she was going to die young. Because the internet had grown atop Defense Department infrastructure, many of the early companies seeking to commercialize it were based around D.

How would they know what is it like to be in the body of a young African-American woman? And with podcasts on two of the biggest media properties today, plus a column in the New York Times, and millions of Twitter followers, Swisher plays a unique role in the journalism landscape. You still think of yourself as a journalist, or is that too narrow of a definition for you these days? Kara Swisher: Yes, I was always really sassy with the people I covered.

When we started Recode, I immediately thought voice was critical, and we were the first, not the first, but we were right in there with doing reporting that also included voice. We have the scoop, but let me tell you what it means. And as you think about the medium of podcasts, what do you like about it? Kara Swisher: I get to really draw it out. Because he came out and said the quiet part out loud, not my fault, I asked a question, he just answered it.

And so in that case, how can you not trust me? I just asked the question. Paul Rand: Good. And so do you see your podcasts evolving? Do you see doing additional ones? Where do you take your career? I think of probably doing series. But if I did eight of them, I think that would be good. If you see Netflix, you can see where things are going. Some things are four episodes, some things are eight, some things are seasons, some things are whatever.

And I kind of love what Netflix is doing around global stuff. You can see them all over Really interesting. Some things become articles. In new book, behavior geneticist debates the role genetics play in social inequality.

Examining the 17 goals that could achieve a sustainable global future. UChicago-Argonne scientist explores more sustainable ways to make use of water. UChicago president discusses his field-defining research, how universities can support scientific discovery. Space historian examines our militaristic relationship to the stars, and how it still shapes our future.

By outbidding polluters, Climate Vault nonprofit aims to make net-zero emissions a reality. Presidential inauguration. Top Stories. Paul Rand: And the one that Swisher is most concerned about is Facebook. Kara Swisher: Philippines, and other places, it just decided to come here. Paul Rand: Right out of the University of Illinois. I was running my hands through his chest hair.

We were in a hermetically sealed container, 30 feet below the Martian surface, recognizing that we were about to die a horrific death either from asteroids or increased radiation or gravitational pull that was melting our bones and neurons. But you know what? We had each other, Kara. We had each other. Wait a sec. And my top marginal tax rate is 53 percent. Galloway: Well, okay. But you know what happened?

I thought my Twitter was going to absolutely go crazy and the trolls were going to come for me. But he decided to take another ten milligrams of CBD. And did you see the tweet he put out to Ron Wyden? Swisher: That was something else. Swisher: Which is common among politicians. They do that all the time.

Swisher cited its extensive list of retail partners as one of its advantages for going after new products with Matchbook Capital. Bill Bortzfield can be reached at bbortzfield wjct. Search Query Show Search. Special Sections. Show Search Search Query.