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Kara Swisher

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Technology journalist who has covered the internet business since 1994. Co-founded Recode with Walt Mossberg in 2014 after covering technology at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and wrote Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024). Hosts On with Kara Swisher and co-hosts Pivot with Scott Galloway. Won the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Blogging and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Where to Find Them

Kara Swisher hosts Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) , hosts Decoder with Nilay Patel , hosts On with Kara Swisher , hosts and writes Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway , hosts Recode Media , hosts The Ezra Klein Show , writes The Jim Acosta Show , hosts Masters of Scale , hosts The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway , hosts and writes Your Undivided Attention , hosts Worklife with Molly Graham , writes The Best People with Nicolle Wallace , writes Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast , writes FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary , writes Katie Couric , writes The Burnouts with Phoebe & Sophia , hosts Mostly Human with Laurie Segall , hosts The Daily (NYT) and writes The Jim Acosta Show . They have also been a guest on RiskReversal Pod (5 times) , Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci (3 times) , The Vergecast (3 times) , Uncanny Valley | WIRED (3 times) , Newcomer Pod (2 times) , TruthWorks (2 times) , Hard Fork (NYT) (2 times) , The GaryVee Audio Experience (2 times) , Possible (2 times) , Big Technology (2 times) , HBR IdeaCast , The Chris Cuomo Project , CNBC's "Fast Money" , The Best One Yet , Masters in Business , Prof G Media , CoinDesk Podcast Network , On the Media , Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing , Capitalisn't , Business Wars , The Logan Bartlett Show , So Money with Farnoosh Torabi , The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost , Business History , GZERO World with Ian Bremmer , 3 Takeaways™ , Frank Figliuzzi , The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos , Mixed Signals from Semafor Media , Dan Harris , Acquired , The Bulwark and America, Actually with Astead Herndon . They also write for Kara Swisher on Substack.

Recently: “Reed Hastings on Hollywood’s future, Netflix’s shakeup and knowing when to leave” on Masters of Scale (October 2026); “Trump's War on "Artificial Intelligence," Elon v. Scott, and Google's Wall Street Meltdown” on Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) (October 2026); “Can Elon Musk Buy His Way Out of a Reckoning?” on On with Kara Swisher (October 2026); “High Stakes with HRC: The Midterms Prep Episode” on On with Kara Swisher (October 2026); “Kara Swisher Thinks Elon Musk Is Destroying His Own Empire” on The Chris Cuomo Project (October 2026); “Anthropic's IPO Filing, Elon's Talarico Obsession, and Elizabeth Holmes' Box Office Surprise” on Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) (October 2026).

What They Said

“Here's why I like him. I just was with him actually last week. He is incredibly well-spoken, rich as can be, so he can fund a lot of stuff. He's very well-liked and very pro-business and at the same time, very good at pushback and he's been effective. He also has like a dad vibe.” — Kara Swisher on JB Pritzker, America, Actually with Astead Herndon

Kara Swisher on America, Actually with Astead Herndon, during a fantasy draft of 2028 presidential contenders. She was explaining why she picked Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for her Democratic team.

America, Actually with Astead Herndon · 2026-08-01 Permalink → Listen →
America, Actually with Astead Herndon Around 36:05 into the episode
Kara Swisher

you leave him out?

Speaker 1

That was bad on my part. I was actually thinking about that right now. We're going to say Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois was almost certainly running, has a whole bunch of money behind him. I say I

Kara Swisher

would have put him before Ramando. Here's why I like him. I just was with him actually last week. He is incredibly well-spoken, rich as can be, so he can fund a lot of stuff. He's very well-liked and very pro-business and at the same time, very good at pushback and he's been effective. He also has like a dad vibe.

Don Lemon

But he's like a normal.

John Feiner

He's not like a rich

Don Lemon

guy. He's got a dad. He's

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