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 have been boosted by AI, might the need for on premises AI lead to a unique opening for the likes of Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise?
Guests: 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 in a matter of weeks. And why I finally got off the fence and decided to investigate the AR/VR space. Sponsors:Oracle.com/goto/rideMetalab.com Links:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees (Amazon)Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant (CNBC)Amazon.com Announces Financial Results and CEO Transition (Amazon Investor Relations)Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Results (Alphabet Investor Relations)Kia Motors Shares Jump After Report Apple to Invest $3.6 Billion (Bloomberg)Facebook starts rolling out Messenger on Oculus headsets (Engadget)60+ Oculus Quest Apps Made More Than $1 Million (UploadVR)Google Meet’s new ‘green room’ lets you do an audio / video pre-check (The Verge)Zoom adds virtual recepti…
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 tease out something that is unprecedented in the world of Tech. Alex Kantrowitz pinged me to talk about it and he’s a good dude to do so because he wrote a book about the big tech platforms, and, as we get into… this is so rare. A big up and coming platform that is just, for w...
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 favorite people to quote from on this show (I shouldn’t anyway) the sheer number of times I quote from someone should tell you something about the amount of news they break. The insights they have. Alex has an amazing new book out called Always Day One- How the Tech Titans Plan t...
Guest: Alex Kantrowitz