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The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 578 posts collected by Sputnik

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“I have a conspiracy theory on that. They had the longest risk factor section I've ever seen in my whole life. … I think what they did was they wanted to bury the existential risk factor in the most boilerplate stuff imaginable, so you would miss that and just be like, oh, well, they had all these other capital risks.” — Alex Kantrowitz, Big Technology
Alex Kantrowitz · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't really think this is a spending issue. I think Wall Street has basically given these companies the green light to spend and spend with abandon. But we're getting to the point where free cash flow is going from positive to negative, as we saw again with Google, two quarters in a row of negative free cash flow. And when that happens, the questions about the core business emerge. And so this isn't a question about AI spending. It's really a question about is your core business going to stay around long enough?” — Alex Kantrowitz, Big Technology
Alex Kantrowitz · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There's a lot of systems like the banking system and the customer service system that depend on friction. It's hard to make a phone call. It's annoying to file something. It takes effort to find that there's a problem and gather your paperwork, even lawsuits, things like that. And now we got those done at scale.” — Ethan Mollick, Big Technology
Ethan Mollick · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You don't get organizational productivity gains instantaneously from individual productivity gains. You can produce 100 times more code than you did before. … If you're an organization that's doing two week-long sprints and has to coordinate with marketing and has stand-up meetings every day, which is a rational way to organize work, that 100 times productivity gain can be a barrier. No one has time to deal with all of that code.” — Ethan Mollick, Big Technology
Ethan Mollick · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I just think everyone's going to still buy into this because everybody is buying a story more than anything else. … I think investors will look at this and say, all right, we're going to be wrong about one of these, but we need to take the basket because the basket as a whole is going to be extraordinary for us. And if one of the groceries falls to the floor and splats like a tomato, we'll take that hit.” — Dan Primack, Big Technology
Dan Primack · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“No, because I don't think Oppenheimer went public.” — Dan Primack, Big Technology
Dan Primack · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We lived through this era where people just kind of assume things were secure. That was never true, but it kind of worked because the number of attackers that was active was finite. And so, if you just kind of blissfully walk down the street through a bad neighborhood, you just got lucky over and over again. Well, the neighborhood's gone really bad.” — Alex Stamos, Big Technology
Alex Stamos · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“That number in our world today is like meaningless, in the sense that every part of code we now touch is influenced by AI deeply.” — Sundar Pichai, Big Technology
Sundar Pichai · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think our cloud business is at any given moment in time foregoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development.” — Sundar Pichai, Big Technology
Sundar Pichai · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What is the purpose of sidewalk signage? To grab your attention. And do you know what this just did? This grabbed people's attention like nothing else. There'd be some creative agency that would charge you like 250K, and there'd be a grand Don Draper style pitch, and they'd be like, listen, the ultimate sidewalk signage, a sign of a sign in a sign. And everyone would just be like, holy shit, you're amazing.” — Ranjan Roy, Big Technology
Ranjan Roy · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Google had all of the resources, all of the talent. They made all of the breakthroughs. They had all the ingredients except for belief… If you don't have the belief, or you only kind of halfway have it, you don't make the kind of crazy sounding bets that you need to make.” — Kevin Roose, Big Technology
Kevin Roose · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Why are restaurant reservations so easy? It's because they're centralized platforms that have already aggregated and cleaned the data very well… If it is a data set that is not cleaned and kind of centralized, you got to double check, man, otherwise you're going to end up on the train getting yelled at… Flights and restaurants, that's why everyone loves to talk about them, because they got the cleanest data sets in the world. Doctor phone numbers, local business phone numbers, not even a chance.” — Ranjan Roy, Big Technology
Ranjan Roy · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Big Technology is hosted by Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy .

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Guests

M.G. Siegler (21 episodes), Aaron Levie (11 episodes), Reed Albergotti (8 episodes), Casey Newton (6 episodes), Brian McCullough (6 episodes), Demis Hassabis (4 episodes), Louise Matsakis (4 episodes), Dan Primack (4 episodes), Ben Smith (4 episodes), Ryan Petersen (4 episodes), Sridhar Ramaswamy (3 episodes), Greg Brockman (3 episodes), and 337 more.