Code Conference
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri and Facebook AR/VR lead Andrew Bosworth will talk about the future of the social network at Code Conference 2019.
Harley-Davidson CEO Matthew Levatich will speak at Code Conference 2019 about his company’s plans to shift some production outside the US.
Vox’s editor-at-large Ezra Klein will talk with the head of the Long-Term Stock Exchange at Code Conference 2019.
Leaders from Medium, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services, Netflix, and more join us next week in Arizona.
Recorded onsite in Rancho Palos Verdes, host Kara Swisher asks what they thought of the Code Conference speakers.
On Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings: “I thought, ‘Oh God, they’re going to leap to it.’ Then I was saying, ‘Oh my God. This is an embarrassment.’”
“It’s not been a level playing field. I think we all now acknowledge that it has not been, so what are we going to do about it?”
“How do you balance out what’s essentially still blue-collar labor — which is cooking — which is now glamorized to the point where it now has white-collar values?”
Sheryl Sandberg, Brad Smith, Senator Mark Warner, James Murdoch, Daniel Ek and more
Evan Spiegel, Sheryl Sandberg, Daniel Ek, Dara Khosrowshahi and more.
Spiegel pours salt on the wound in his long-simmering fight with Instagram.
“As time goes on, I think it will become clear to more and more people that our values are really hard to copy.”
“To this day, we still don’t actually know what data Cambridge Analytica had.”
The food delivery business is also growing 200 percent, Khosrowshahi said at Code Conference.
“It’s up to them whether they want to do it or not.”
“Just like Amazon sells third party goods, we are going to also offer third party transportation services. So, we wanna kinda be the Amazon for transportation.”
“Fundamentally, they’re having a really hard time changing the DNA of their company.”
“We can use these improvisational exercises to help people understand their own behavior,” Libera said.
High-tech fireworks.
Instagram gave Facebook unfair reach, Thompson argues.
Who’s growing up — and who’s lagging behind — was a recurring question this week at the Code Conference.
Eric Rosenbach asks us to role-play.
The entrepreneur discusses his moonshots at Code University.
“We didn’t want to get into a position about talking about who gets to do exactly what or what the situation is on Spotify.”
It’s all about transparency.
Did the Trump campaign have suspicious-looking data sets? “No, not really.”
“There are a lot of people in America that want to stop China from” upgrading its manufacturing sector, Tsai says.
On whether he would have fired Roseanne Barr: “I can’t imagine how you would not.”
“I still don’t understand it.”
The three were challenged to identify a single solution.
“There will probably be a massive economy of experiences and we’ll just be one player in that economy, but I think it will be really really big.”
Vox.com’s senior video producer Estelle Caswell explains it all.
“We’re not promoting the restaurant — we’re trying to promote our ideals.”
“When you have rising monetization, rising growth and rising data collection, it drives a lot of regulatory scrutiny whether it’s related to data privacy, competition or safety in content.”
“In some ways we can look like a retailer, in other ways we look more like a technology company.”
Think Netflix.
Illumina CEO Francis deSouza’s company makes machines that let companies like 23andMe understand their customers’ DNA.
Crypto versus the feds, and crypto versus crypto.
Chesky’s vision? To be a “global travel community.”