Season 3, Episode 4: Recode (with Kara Swisher)

That's different. That's just a bunch of white guys talking. Apple, apple, apple. Oh that damn Google. Facebook. Welcome to Season 3, Episode 4 of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert, I'm David Rosenthal, and we are your hosts.

We are here today to talk about the acquisition of Recode by Vox Media. And in fact, broadcasting live from the Recode Podcasting Studio in the red chairs nonetheless. We're here with one of the uh the greatest people. Actually probably the greatest person that we could we could imagine to help us tell this story. All right, okay. The one and only Keris Wisher. Nice to meet you. It's not really the recodes, it's just a st stupid. We're not fancy here at Vox Media. That's why I'm here. Listeners don't know that. It's really impressive. We're in suits. We had a really nice view of the Bay uh of the Bay Bridge before in our other office, but it was too expensive. So here we are looking at the trans bay terminal.

Beautiful in a ten, right? No, no, that was before we had the night. So this is much nicer than anything else. Oh, we'll get into that. Yeah. Okay. All right, listeners. Kara needs no introduction, but I'll do one anyway because it was fun to put one together. Kara is the executive editor and co-founder of Recode. She is the illustrious host of the Recode Decode podcast. She's an absolute legend in the technology industry, previously founding the All Things Digital Conference and blog at the Wall Street Journal, which was a pioneer of legitimizing blogging and creating an actually good technology conference. Kara has been called one of the greatest interview of our time by Ezra Klein and once interviewed Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. in their only ever combined interview actually in the chairs we're sitting in.

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