Well, you know, I certainly blame myself and so I had this moment of epiphany where I realized I had to stop doing what I was doing and commit myself to seeing if I couldn’t help repair some of the damage.Īll right. When you spend 34 years being a tech optimist, and all of a sudden you wake up one morning and you realize that everything you have done has basically gone off the rails, off the cliff. And this book is getting a lot of attention. Roger McNamee: It is so cool to be here, Kara. He’s always been the most enthusiastic venture capitalist I know. Roger, why is this a surprise that you are out there? I’ve known Roger for so long. He was an early investor in Facebook before the company went public and is now speaking out against the company in a new book called Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Today in the red chair is someone I know very, very well, I’ve known for a very long time, Roger McNamee, the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. You may know me as the bassist in the band Moonalice, but in my spare time I talk tech and you’re listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network. I’m Kara Swisher, editor-at-large of Recode. You can listen to Recode Decode wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and Overcast.īelow, we’ve shared a lightly edited full transcript of Kara’s conversation with Roger.
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