I think for the cspan audience, we first need to put the burn book in context. Can you give us can you give us the background . Sure. Burn book is an expression actually mean girls is out now, which is kind of too. It is for me, but its a book you write things you really think about people and youre not. People are supposed to see it. And of course, thats the whole premise of that movie and you have fun with it and its sort of gossipy and mean a little bit, but funny and so i decided thats what i was doing in my memoir and of what my 30 years covering Silicon Valley. The same time that subhead is a tech love story because i love tech. Yeah. So i dont want this idea that, you know, theres a lot of tropes out there. You know, tech is terrible. Its not terrible. Its how how its being used essentially. And so i want to say i love tech, but let me tell you what happened. Yeah. Yeah. Journey to do these people becoming the worlds richest, most powerful people. And youve been there since the
Kara swisher i am delighted to be here with you. Its a real honor to talk about fern book, which you we have to i think for the cspan audience, we first need to put the burn book in context. Can you give us can you give us the background . Sure. Burn book is an expression actually mean girls is out now, which is kind of too. It is for me, but its a book you write things you really think about people and youre not. People are supposed to see it. And of course, thats the whole premise of that movie and you have fun with it and its sort of gossipy and mean a little bit, but funny and so i decided thats what i was doing in my memoir and of what my 30 years covering Silicon Valley. The same time that subhead is a tech love story because i love tech. Yeah. So i dont want this idea that, you know, theres a lot of tropes out there. You know, tech is terrible. Its not terrible. Its how how its being used essentially. And so i want to say i love tech, but let me tell you what happened. Yeah. Yea
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