Alex Kantrowitz

Guest

Alex Kantrowitz is the founder of Big Technology, a newsletter and podcast about Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

His first book ALWAYS DAY ONE: How The Tech Titans Plan To Stay On Top Forever debuted in April 2020. His work has been referenced by dozens of major publications, from The New Yorker to The Wall Street Journal to Sports Illustrated.

Kantrowitz is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

July 12, 2023

Wed. 07/12 – Microsoft Wins Big In The FTC Case

A big win for Microsoft leads critics of FTC chair Lina Khan to come out of the woodwork. Anthropic has released its Claude 2 chatbot. Say hello to the Nothing Phone (2). And while the market caps of the big players might ha…

Guests: Brian McCullough , Avi Loeb , Connie Chan , Peter Kafka , Chris Messina , Joshua Schachter , Brady Dale , Josh Constine , Alex Kantrowitz , Rene Ritchie , Bryan Salesky , James McLeod , Alex Wilhelm , Christopher Mims , Steven Levy , Lloyd B. Minor, MD , Sam Rutherford , Angela Strange , Dan Frommer , Will Martin , Christina Farr , Flynn Coleman , Mark Bergen , Mike Murphy , Jay Yarow , Farhad Manjoo , Steve Case , Harry McCracken , Satish Jeyachandran , Gary Marcus , John Voorhees , Julia Alexander , Charles Fishman , Charles Nix , M.G. Siegler , Rafat Ali , Garry Tan , Noah Smith , Katie Roof , Natasha Mascarenhas , Christine Hall , Ilya Rosenberg , Andrew Chen , Kayvon Beykpour , Jackson Dame , SHL0MS , Janine Yorio , Ross Mayfield , Sonal Chokshi , Kaya Yurieff , Gregarious Narain , Nigel Pickles , Reesha Howard , Tony Haile , Ed Zitron , Joseph Flaherty , Chris Fralic , Romeen Sheth , Robert Scoble , Kyle Hilliard , Rob Maurer , Ali Tamaseb , Howard Lindzon , Nick Quah , Peter Linder , Timothy B. Lee , Jacob Ward , Victor Luckerson , Taylor Lorenz , Jason Schreier , Casey Newton , Justin Brookman , Matt Stroud , Harry Campbell , Federico Viticci , Bill Gattle , Alison Griswold , Jason Rowley , Dave Bittner , Dan Keyserling , Dexter Thillien , Shira Ovide , Eric Jackson , Simon Owens , Matt Simon , Brian Heater , Aaron Lammer , Matt Stoller , Joe Fassler , Mike Davidson , Jason Del Rey , Mark Gurman , Benedict Evans , Charlie O'Donnell

July 3, 2021

(SPC CST) The Facebook Antitrust Blowup With @Kantrowitz

Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter comes on to try to help us work out what happened with that Facebook Antitrust case blowup. Also, what does this mean for regulating other companies.

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

Feb. 3, 2021

Wed. 02/03 – Bezos Drops Mic

Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO, to be replaced by Andy Jassy. Google is losing a ton of money on its Cloud, but YouTube is finally hitting its stride. Apple might formally do an Apple Car-related tie-up with Kia i…

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

Sept. 12, 2020

(Bonus) The TikTok Sales Saga With @Kantrowitz

The TikTok saga. It’s gonna end. Or it’s gonna happen. Or it’s gonna… something in the next few days. Will it be sold? Will it not be? Will it be banned in the US. There are so many angles here. So many interesting ways to t…

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz

April 11, 2020

(Bonus) Tech Giant Psychoanalysis With Alex Kantrowitz

I couldn’t tell you the amount of times, over the last two years, I’ve quoted pieces from Alex Kantrowitz on this show. Hundreds of times? Easy? Alex is the senior tech reporter at Buzzfeed News, and, while I don’t have favo…

Guest: Alex Kantrowitz