“I say it on occasion, just wanting a little bit more love than my brothers got. Just a teeny bit on occasion. And that's a hell of an engine.”
On with Kara Swisher · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026
Swisher was asking Emanuel about growing up as the brother his family thought of as "the other one", and suggested his career had been a lifetime of proving himself to them. Her reply to this line was that it is often not a great engine.
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they think they finally got it at the end. They kind of realized between all this. So
it was a lifetime of proving to them. Yeah.
And, you know, I say it on occasion, just wanting a little bit more love than my brothers got. Just a teeny bit on occasion. And that's a hell of an engine.
Yeah, it is. It's often not a great one, actually.
But it's, you know. You
know, one of my premises about a lot of people in tech is they didn't get hugged enough as children. And unfortunately, we're living their pain. All of us are. This is
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