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How Big Tech Betrayed All of Us

In Don’t Be Evil, Financial Times global business columnist Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul, and ate our lunch.

“Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s original corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous.

Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived up to this founding philosophy. 

Today, the utopia they sought to create is looking more dystopian than ever: from digital surveillance and the loss of privacy to the spreading of misinformation and hate speech to predatory algorithms targeting the weak and vulnerable to products that have been engineered to manipulate our desires.

How did we get here? How did these once-scrappy and idealistic enterprises become rapacious monopolies with the power to corrupt our elections, co-opt all our data, and control the largest single chunk of corporate wealth, while evading all semblance of regulation and taxes? 

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The Making of a Manager with Julie Zhuo

Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.

That's exactly how our latest guest, Julie Zhuo, felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. It’s also why she felt compelled to write her first book, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You.

She stared at a long list of logistics, from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching, and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties. How was she supposed to spin teamwork into value? What was the secret to leading with confidence in new and unexpected situations?

Now, having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager.

The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed everyday examples and transformative insights, including:

  • How to tell a great manager from an average manager

  • When you should look past an awkward interview and hire someone anyway

  • How to build trust with your reports through not being a boss

  • Where to look when you lose faith and lack the answers

Whether you're new to the job, a veteran leader, or looking to be promoted, this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.

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Don’t Blow Your Tax Refund

Don’t Blow Your Tax Refund

Syria! Tariffs! Mueller Investigation! Facebook under Fire! Corporate Earnings! All of these headlines have moved markets over the few weeks, leaving investors whipsawed and exhausted. If you’re keeping score, the Dow and S&P 500 are down slightly on the year (-1.5 percent and -0.7 percent, respectively), while the Russell 2000 and NASDAQ Composite are up (+0.9 percent and +3 percent, respectively).

CBS Evening News: Dow Plunges as Much as 700 points

It was a tough day on Wall Street Monday, as the Dow plunged as much as 700 points, hitting it's low for the year, before recovering at the end of the day. The dip was partly due to concerns about a trade war, but that wasn't all.

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Did Chinese Tariffs Alone Cause Market Slide? (Hint: NO)

Did Chinese Tariffs Alone Cause Market Slide? (Hint: NO)

Stocks dropped by nearly 3 percent Thursday and another 2 percent on Friday, closing out the steepest one-week percentage decline for US indexes since January 2016. The proximate cause was President Trump's announcement that the U.S. would levy 25 percent tariffs on up to $60 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports.

CBS This Morning: Amazon, Apple & Google Report Record Earnings

Tech giants including Amazon, Google's parent company Alphabet and Apple are celebrating record-breaking sales. I joined CBS This Morning to discuss what contributed to Amazon's massive increase in sales and why Apple was able to increase their revenue despite lackluster sales numbers.

#350 The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google with Scott Galloway

We started hour one this week with Karen from Kentucky who had a question about my favorite topic...annuities! After Karen we went to Brian in Seattle who was wondering if it makes sense for him to keep his disability insurance policy. We also mixed in plenty of emails as well as touching on the upcoming holiday shopping season.

We started hour one this week with Karen from Kentucky who had a question about my favorite topic...annuities! After Karen we went to Brian in Seattle who was wondering if it makes sense for him to keep his disability insurance policy. We also mixed in plenty of emails as well as touching on the upcoming holiday shopping season.

Maybe I’m dating myself, but there was a time that whenever I would hear the “Big Four,” I would always think of the big four accounting firms...Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC.

Well, it’s now 2017, and the new, much bigger, Big Four are Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple. Given their outsized share of the marketplace, not to mention our lives, are these companies monopolizing our lives in a negative way? Our guest this week in hour two, Scott Galloway, certainly thinks so.

Scott is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. A serial entre­preneur, he has founded nine firms, including L2. In 2012, he was named one of the “World’s 50 Best Busi­ness School Professors” by Poets & Quants.

In his first book, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, Scott explores how these massive companies infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid. Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? As they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal­lenge them? These are just a couple of the fundamental questions Scott asks throughout the book.

Let’s face it, there’s no avoiding them, so we all better figure out how to either compete with them, work with them, or just live in a world dominated by them.

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Ep. 043 - The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google with Scott Galloway

Maybe I'm dating myself, but there was a time that whenever I would hear the "Big Four," I would always think of the big four accounting firms...Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC. Well, it's now 2017, and the new, much bigger, Big Four are Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple.

Maybe I’m dating myself, but there was a time that whenever I would hear the “Big Four,” I would always think of the big four accounting firms...Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC.

Well, it’s now 2017, and the new, much bigger, Big Four are Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple. Given their outsized share of the marketplace, not to mention our lives, are these companies monopolizing our lives in a negative way? Our guest this week, Scott Galloway, certainly thinks so.

Scott is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing to second-year MBA students. A serial entre­preneur, he has founded nine firms, including L2. In 2012, he was named one of the “World’s 50 Best Busi­ness School Professors” by Poets & Quants.

In his first book, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, Scott explores how these massive companies infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid. Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? As they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal­lenge them? These are just a couple of the fundamental questions Scott asks throughout the book.

Let’s face it, there’s no avoiding them, so we all better figure out how to either compete with them, work with them, or just live in a world dominated by them.

“Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment.

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Ep. 022 - Option B with Adam Grant

By now you may have seen or heard an interview with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg discussing her recently released new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. Although she is the headliner, Sandberg had a co-author on the project -- the incredible Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, professor and accomplished author in his own right.

By now you may have seen or heard an interview with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg discussing her recently released new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.

Although she is the headliner, Sandberg had a co-author on the project — the incredible Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, professor and accomplished author in his own right. We were lucky enough to land Adam as this week’s Better Off guest.

Adam, named Wharton’s top-rated professor for five straight years, has already authored two New York Times bestselling books.  Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink and Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success.

His latest project with Sandberg focuses on resilience and how to use it in everyday life to become better off, a core theme of our podcast.

Life isn’t always a smooth ride and inevitably you’re going to have to deal with some bumps in the road.  Whether it’s the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job or a bad financial decision, at some point along the way there are going to be tough times that you will face.

For Sheryl this moment came after the sudden death of her husband Dave Goldberg.  Stuck in a deep void, she felt that she and her children would never again experience joy.  It was Adam who helped her realize that there are concrete steps she could take to recover and rebound from the life-shattering experience.

Adam notes that deep down inside all of us, we all have resilience — and combined with a support system, it’s possible for of us to grow and find even greater appreciation in our lives.  I think this book with help you prepare for the next hurdle you encounter.

Quick side note…it’s always our goal to get our guests with us in-studio but due to conflicting schedules, we conducted this interview on the phone.  Because Adam we was so good and the topic so important, we decided the phone shouldn’t stop us from running it.  We hope you agree!

You can connect with Adam on Twitter for more advice and tips on how to deal with those unavoidable tough times in life.

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