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Walt Mossberg, Bill Gates and the late-night Taco Bell run that never happened

(Also: Dick Costolo interviews the world’s best tech reviewer.)

Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg
Asa Mathat
Peter Kafka
Peter Kafka covered media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast.

Walt Mossberg has spent the years peppering the world’s most powerful people with tough questions from a red leather chair.

Now the tables have been turned: On Wednesday night at the Code Conference, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo interviewed Mossberg.

Topics covered: Everything. Also: Mossberg’s relationship with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and every other significant person in the personal tech industry.

This is a one-time-only interview, so you’ll want to watch the whole thing. And if you get to the end, you get to hear a great story about Gates offering to buy Mossberg a taco.

Here you go:


This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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