Has the Silicon Valley Bubble Burst? A Conversation w Jessica Lessin & William Cohan

Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'Rapid-fire layoffs, activist investors at the gate and tumbling stock prices \\u2014 tech has had a bad year. But Kara tells Nayeema she\\u2019s seen it all before and that the industry, if not all its captains, will survive this shake-up, too. In the panel interview, Kara is joined by two other journalists: Jessica Lessin, founder and CEO of The Information, a scoop-laden tech news platform covering Silicon Valley, and William Cohan, a former M&A banker and a founding partner at Puck, another excellent source for scoops.\\xa0\\nThey tackle what\\u2019s behind the long decline, and recent rally, of tech stocks, and when and how the Valley will bounce back. Then they zoom in on what Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Netflix will need to zoom in on to survive the storm. And Jessica offers a theory: the time is ripe for a changing of the old tech guard. Sorry, Elon \\u2014 it may be time to step aside.\\xa0\\nYou can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'