The Information's 411
Summary: A weekly podcast brought to you by The Information, a subscription tech news site doing deep dives and investigative looks at the tech and media industries. Each episode highlights some of the major happenings in tech business world, featuring the reporters at The Information. It's interviews, analysis, and wrap-ups to help give you insights into what the biggest companies in the industry are thinking.
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Podcasts:
Reed discusses SolarCity and whether the company's decades-long agreements for solar panels makes sense. Jessica wades into the controversy surrounding biotech firm Theranos and its prominent CEO Elizabeth Holmes,
Stephen Nellis takes over hosting duties for the week. He talks to intern Sam Lessin about why it's so hard for tech companies to rebound from major struggles. Then Amir joins to talk about the future of Android phones as well as Square's S-1.
Pete Schultz, an Information engineer, makes his debut on the podcast to talk about the Future List and our story about investor diversity in tech. Then Amir joins to talk about his interview with the founders of Airbnb and Zenefits, as well as a discussion about on-demand companies.
It's a Twitter and Snapchat double-feature as Jessica Lessin, The Information's editor-in-chief, sits down to talk about Jack Dorsey's soon to be official announcement as "permanent" Twitter CEO. Then she asks Tom about Snapchat's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan and how he's managed to get along with the company's fickle co-founder.
Amir Efrati drops by the studio to talk about his deep look at Thuan Pham, the CTO of Uber and how he's trying to shape up the engineering team there, which is faced with serious technical problems. Also the ethics of ad blocking
Ace enterprise reporter Stephen Nellis joins in as co-host to talk about Dreamforce and the future of Salesforce. Why does the company care about the Internet of Things? Will Salesforce build more products internally? Then the roles switch up as Stephen asks Tom about his favorite subject: Snapchat.
We go long on two segments this week. The first is a debate between Jessica Lessin and Frank Shaw who heads up communications at Microsoft over the nature of on background conversations. Jessica said companies demand it too frequently, Frank says background is important and companies should have access to it the same as anonymous sources do. And Reed Albergotti walks through the turmoil, struggles, and potential hope for hardware maker Jawbone.
A podcast by tech and digital media news site, The Information, featuring the site's reporters talking about the news of the week. This episode Is about co-working space provider WeWork, the company's ambitious revenue projections to investors and whether they make sense. Also Google's secret plan to reenter China through the app store. Plus a reflection on Summer 2015 and all the silliness that we endured in both tech and beyond. Stories mentioned during the show: WeWork's Gamble on Growth go.theinformation.com/58003e Google's Plan to Reenter Mainland China go.theinformation.com/94c1a9
First episode of The Information's 411. A podcast by tech and digital media news site, The Information, featuring the site's reporters talking about the news they covered during the week. This episode we talk about private market volatility, "Input zero," and the genius of Halt and Catch Fire. Stories mentioned during the show: The Race for Input Zero: go.theinformation.com/af93d6 The New Realities of Private Tech: go.theinformation.com/b450b7 The Rosy Calculations of Employee Stock Options: go.theinformation.com/ff5cf9
