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By founding Recode, co-creating D: All Things Digital, and extracting unguarded interviews from Jobs, Gates, and Zuckerberg, Swisher effectively invented the template for holding Silicon Valley accountable as a power center, not a novelty beat.
Kara Swisher is a technology journalist and Founder of Recode, which she sold to Vox Media.
She co-founded the D: All Things Digital conference with Walt Mossberg, hosting on-stage interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. She now hosts the On With Kara Swisher podcast and co-hosts Pivot with Scott Galloway, and is the author of multiple books and a New York Times contributor.
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