Kara Swisher

Several times a week, award-winning journalist Kara Swisher gets to the heart of the story through no-holds-barred interviews with power players across business, tech, media, politics and beyond. Swisher is the host of hit podcasts, such as On[as in “It’s on!”) with Kara Swisher. Swisher co-hosts Pivot, a podcast with thought leader, Scott Galloway, appears as a regular panelist on CNN’s “The Chris Wallace Show,” has worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times,and hosts another hit, the NY Times podcast, Sway. 

Swisher recently authored the instant NY Times Bestseller, BURN BOOK:

Described by the WSJ’s Walt Mossberg as “part memoir, part history [and] a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players from the ‘queen of all media.’” Booklist describes Swisher as “the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley who takes no prisoners in [her] highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world. Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles;” it’s a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders – who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.

Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few whom Swisher made sweat — figuratively and, in Zuckerberg’s case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools is poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone.