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Billionaire Campaign Spending, Apple's Budget Gamble, and Hegseth vs. CNN

3/17/202657 min

Kara and Scott are live at SXSW! They discuss billionaires' unprecedented influence in recent elections, and the reality of wealth taxes. Then, Apple introduces a budget MacBook — smart market expansion or a risky move for a luxury brand? Plus, Pete Hegseth calls CNN "fake news" and cheers on the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal, and Polymarket's AI deal. Watch this episode on the ⁠⁠Pivot YouTube channel⁠⁠.Follow us on Instagram and Threads at ⁠⁠@pivotpodcastofficial⁠⁠.Follow us on Bluesky at ⁠⁠@pivotpod.bsky.social⁠⁠Follow us on TikTok at ⁠⁠@pivotpodcast⁠⁠.Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email pivot@voxmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clips

Young men versus the algorithm
Level up, not give up
Extremes fuel broken politics
Overturn Citizens United, or spiral
Deficits as a generational tax
Selling down Apple over values
Gambling’s silent devastation
Apple’s luxury brand dilemma
Threats that backfire on speech
Rethinking tax fairness

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Kara Swisher· Host0:00

    Support for this show comes from Odoo. Running a business takes everything you've got, and a lot of the tools out there that are supposed to make your life easier just aren't great at talking to each other, and that means you end up having to toggle between a dozen different apps and services just to keep the lights on. Enough of that. Now there's Odoo, the all-in-one, fully integrated platform that actually might help you get it all done. Thousands of businesses have made the switch, so why not you? Try Odoo for free at odoo.com. That's O-D-O-O.com. Support for this show comes from MongoDB. If you're a developer stuck fixing bottlenecks instead of building the next big thing, then you need MongoDB. Mongo is the flexible, unified platform that gets out of your way. It's ACID compliant, enterprise ready, and built to ship AI apps fast. And it's trusted by so many of the Fortune five hundred with their most critical workloads. Developers have a word for that kind of reliability. Actually, five words. It's a great fucking database. Start building at mongodb.com/build.

  2. Speaker 11:07

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  3. Scott Galloway· Host1:23

    I'm curious what you think because you have sons.

  4. Kara Swisher· Host1:26

    Yeah.

  5. Scott Galloway· Host1:26

    I have sons.

  6. Kara Swisher· Host1:27

    They don't gamble.

  7. Scott Galloway· Host1:28

    Yeah, but you're a better parent than me, so.

  8. Kara Swisher· Host1:29

    Yes.

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