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Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)

With great power, comes great scrutiny. Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 825 posts collected by Sputnik

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“I think the headline a couple decades ago and definitely 40 or 50 years ago would have been Microsoft laying off 60,000 people. Instead, the headline is top and bottom beat from Microsoft. … The God we pray to now is shareholders.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This is the nightmare for politicians and for citizens and for college grads and the dream for shareholders. They don't employ that many people. And their revenue is up 1,400%. Their employee count wasn't up 1,400%.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think democracy is compatible with social media. And I actually, many years ago, I tried to speak to all the heads of the tech companies to warn them about that, thinking, oh, they would realize that and they would care. And then I realized actually they were completely disinterested in protecting democracy.” — Sacha Baron Cohen, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Sacha Baron Cohen · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“That's the way you change American politics is you talk to your neighbors and not say you're an idiot or you need to change the way you vote. You say, hey, are you aware that there is a private prison going in next to our elementary school? And I've got a real issue with that. And that's what makes people show up.” — Heather Cox Richardson, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Heather Cox Richardson · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the things that we are suffering from in this particular moment is the conversion of wealth, that is the things that make a life worth living, you know, family, church, if that's your thing, open spaces, time with friends, education, libraries, whatever, that that is essentially being turned into cash. And that, you know, we're liquidating it and turning it into cash and then giving it to a very few people.” — Heather Cox Richardson, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Heather Cox Richardson · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Your happiness and general sense of well-being is the delta between what you have and your expectations. And because of social media vomiting 105 times a day, how well everyone else is doing, the expectations, especially amongst young people, is that if they don't have a boyfriend with a six-pack and they haven't made $3 million on the SpaceX IPO, that they're failing.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I once described him as somebody who can jump off the edge of a cliff and invent a parachute on the way down. I think he thrives on chaos.” — Justine Musk, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Justine Musk · 11 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Netflix pays $20 billion a year for content. YouTube pays creators on a revenue share basis and gets 20 million uploads a day for free. It's just, it's difficult to compete against that cost.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“YouTube can launch a million drones and just see which one works, right? Netflix is committing to B1 bombers. Like they spend a lot of money on series. Live sports is weird. It's like a gym membership. Right now, nobody uses it much, but they don't want to stop paying for it.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The Ukrainians and the Russians are creating the only two modern armed forces in the world. And this is a problem for everybody else, which I don't think everybody else is necessarily recognizing. The Ukrainians innovate, the Russians copy, and pretty much everything Ukrainians do, the Russians can do a few months later, but at scale.” — Timothy Snyder, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Timothy Snyder · 4 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This may be the first IPO where the risk factor is not our business might fail, but our business model might succeed beyond our ability to control it. I've never read that before. … This doesn't feel like an S1. It feels like a hostage note with a cap table.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The problem isn't that these people are evil. The problem is that they're capitalists. And we shouldn't build a regulatory architecture that requires CEOs to choose humanity over market share every Tuesday morning.” — Scott Galloway, Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway)
Scott Galloway · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Pivot (Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway) is hosted by Kara Swisher , Scott Galloway , Casey Newton , Stephanie Ruhle , Preet Bharara , Nilay Patel , Peter Kafka , Ellis Hamburger , Alex Heath , Robin Arzón , Astead Herndon and Erica Anderson .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    Trump's War on "Artificial Intelligence," Elon v. Scott, and Google's Wall Street Meltdown

  2. 27 Oct 2026

    Anthropic's IPO Filing, Elon's Talarico Obsession, and Elizabeth Holmes' Box Office Surprise

  3. 25 Oct 2026

    Pivot Extra: From ‘Trump Curious’ to ‘Trump Furious’: Inside the Midterm Odds

    With Kristen Soltis Anderson , David Wasserman and Terrance Woodbury

  4. 23 Oct 2026

    Elon v. Kara, Tesla’s SpaceX Lifeline, and Sacha Baron Cohen on Satire

    With Sacha Baron Cohen

  5. 20 Oct 2026

    Trump's Putin Play, Elon's SpaceX Stock Pledge, and Netflix's Staffing Shakeup

  6. 18 Oct 2026

    Pivot Extra: America at 250 — with Heather Cox Richardson

    With Heather Cox Richardson

  7. 16 Oct 2026

    Elon Musk's Midterm Spending Spree, Trump's Press Secretary Debacle, and OpenAI Gets Bugged

  8. 13 Oct 2026

    Kara Swisher Says the #1 Longevity Tool Isn't Sleep, Food, or Exercise | Project Swagger with Robin Arzón

  9. 11 Oct 2026

    Pivot Extra: Inside “Musk”: Power, Family and the Making of a Tech Demagogue

    With Justine Musk and Alex Gibney

  10. 9 Oct 2026

    Camp Donald, Bezos's AI Fantasy, and Desperately Seeking Kara Swisher

    With Jessica Tarlov

  11. 6 Oct 2026

    Ellison's Rebrand, Netflix's Struggles, and Elon's Breakup

  12. 4 Oct 2026

    Pivot Extra: Timothy Snyder on America’s Superpower Suicide

    With Timothy Snyder

Guests

Baratunde Thurston (6 episodes), George Hahn (6 episodes), Jeffrey Swisher (6 episodes), Andrew Ross Sorkin (6 episodes), Aminatou Sow (5 episodes), Anthony Scaramucci (5 episodes), Ro Khanna (4 episodes), William D. Cohan (4 episodes), Nicole Perlroth (3 episodes), Esther Perel (3 episodes), Kristen Soltis Anderson (3 episodes), Don Lemon (3 episodes), and 364 more.