Big Technology Podcast - Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy is the co-founder of Neeva, SVP at Snowflake and former SVP at Google. He joins Big Technology Podcast to reflect on the strange year Google’s had in 2023, working on the fly to reimagine search and ship faster than it was initially comfortable with. In this episode, Ramaswamy delivers deep insights on the future of search, generative AI, and how his former employer will adapt in these times. Stay tuned for the second half where Ramaswamy candidly discusses his search competitor Neeva, why he sold it to Snowflake, and what the two companies hope to accomplish together.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Will Temporary Casino Medinah Temple Open Its Doors Soon?

We’re back with another update on the Johnson administration. This week, we’re taking a look at the long-awaited Medinah Temple temporary casino. WBEZ’s city government and politics reporters Tessa Weinberg and Mariah Woelfel give us the latest updates on what’s left to be done before opening day.

CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Friend.tech | The Legal and Tax Ins and Outs of This Year’s Hottest Crypto App

Friend.tech, a decentralized social media platform in which you can buy and sell “keys” in your friends on X (formerly known as Twitter) whose value can go up and down, has become a viral sensation, racking up as many as 100,000 users since launching on August 10. 

Should keys be considered securities and thus regulated by the SEC? How should gains and losses be taxed? And how private should users assume their communications and transactions on the platform are? Securities and banking law professor at George Mason Law School JW Verret, and tax partner and co-head of the Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice at Fried, Frank Jason Schwartz, share their thoughts. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Show Highlights | 

  • How Friend.tech works and how the price of keys is determined
  • How Friend.tech is different from many other past attempts at creating a decentralized social media platform
  • Whether the keys offered by Friend.tech could be deemed securities by the SEC
  • What wrapped Friend.tech tokens are and whether these could be considered securities
  • Why the traditional approach to crypto taxation is bad for most Friend.tech taxpayers
  • What the tax implications of Friend.tech airdrops are
  • What Friend.tech users should assume about their privacy on the app
  • What the future holds for Friend.tech


GUESTS | 

J.W. Verret, Associate Professor of Law at George Mason Law School

Previous appearance on Unchained: Coinbase's Legal Action Against the SEC: How It Will Likely Unfold

Jason Schwartz, tax partner and co-head of the Digital Assets and Blockchain Practice at Fried, Frank

Friend.Tech Shows How Complicated Taxing Crypto Transactions Can Be by Jason Schwartz


Links | 

Unchained: 

Friend.tech Threatens to Penalize Users That Move to Copies or Forks

Friend.tech Clarifies That Database of 100,000 Users Was Not Leaked

What Is SocialFi? A Beginner’s Guide

The ‘Howey Test’ and the Debate Over Crypto's Legal Status - Crypto Security vs Commodity

CoinDesk: 

Friend.tech Attracted NBA Influencers. So Why Does Everyone Think Crypto’s Latest Trend Will Die?

Decrypt:

Friend.tech Renames Its Token—But Is It Even Legal?


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Time To Say Goodbye - Testing our politics through K-fine dining and “The Retrievals”

Hello from British Columbia! 

This week, [4:15] we start with the latest concerning video of Mitch McConnell and whether the conversation around fitness for office can (and should) cut across party lines. [21:45] Next, we talk about the Korean fine-dining wave in NYC, the effect of soft power, and why you won’t see us at Naro anytime soon. [45:05] In our final segment, we discuss the Serial podcast “The Retrievals,” which explores questions of gendered pain and corrupt healthcare through the true stories of women deprived of pain medication during IVF. Jay takes us BTS of this caliber of narrative podcast. 

In this episode, we ask: 

Is it reasonable to expect basic verbal competency from our elected officials?

If you’re a leftist, are there some luxuries (like dining at $$$$$ restaurants) that should be off-limits? Or is that a needlessly moralistic stance? 

Why is women’s pain continually dismissed, and what’s the right punishment for the infliction of non-lethal harm? 

For more, see: 

* The older and more recent videos of Mitch McConnell, and some doctors’ hypotheses about the cause

* Pete Wells’s article about How Korean Restaurants Remade Fine Dining in New York 

* The Times investigation into A Deadly Epidural, Delivered by a Doctor With a History of Mistakes 

* Books on pain and how it’s addressed: Sick: A Memoir, by Porochista Khakpour, and The Body in Pain, by Elaine Scarry

* Past TTSG episodes we refer to: 

* A recent discussion on Asian food trends in the U.S., from June

* Lux magazine and lockdowns with Sarah Leonard, from December 2020

We’ll be off next week as our hosts attend to other business (their full-time jobs), but watch out for a non-audio note! 

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: David Hurwitt, Troove

David Hurwitt lives in Burlington, Vermont, and is a married father of 3. And, those kids hav already grown and flown, per Dave's words. Their journey out of the nest into college was a driver behind starting his current venture. Outside of current venture, he is an avid photographer and really enjoys taking pictures, but ensuring there is people in them - cause, he states it's just better that way.

Dave spent some time in college admissions in the past. And, as his kids grew up, he started to look into the process again. He found that when visiting a school in person, there wasn't solution that utilized preferences of the graduates, helping them identify patterns to help match them to their perfect school.

This is the creation story of Troove.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Show and sell: Amazon v Hollywood

The retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpressed with the outcomes. But Amazon may have the best business model going. Statisticians in Britain appear to have found about 2% of GDP hiding in their data—we ask how it got lost (8:24). And how the pocket calculator ushered in the digital age (15:52).


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Money Girl - How Many Retirement Accounts Can You Have?

Contributing to more tax-advantaged retirement accounts can help you create a secure financial future—but how many can you have? Laura reviews the rules for qualifying and contributing to multiple retirement accounts.

Money Girl is hosted by Laura Adams. A transcript is available at Simplecast.

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The Best One Yet - 🎸 “Eras Tour: The Movie” — T-Swift’s windowing strategy. Airbnb’s NYC crackdown. Credit Cards’ swipe tax.

Taylor Swift is turning her concert into a movie and it already broke a pre-sale ticket record — But every medium requires a different methodology.

Airbnb was just effectively banned in NYC — We’ll tell you why New York is enforcing its Anti-Airbnb position.

And credit card companies are about to raise a secret fee charged every time you swipe — Technically the stores pay it, but in reality we all do: So we call it the “Swipe Tax.”

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 9.6.23

Alabama

  • Response of AL leadership to judges' rejection of new congressional map
  • AG Marshall talks to Newsmax about DOJ blocking access to discovery
  • Governor asking questions of AL public library service re: book controversy
  • State lawmaker Dubose calls out AL Library association for being "woke"
  • Firefighters arrive in Hoover today for 2023 Challenge Championship

National

  • Congress returns to DC, GOP already beating the drum on impeachment
  • House Oversight subpoenas docs within DHS and S.S. over Hunter Biden case
  • Donald Trump responds to question over Covid vaccine injuries
  • TX state legislature proceeds with impeaching their AG Ken Paxton
  • FL Senator releases report on US men dropping out of labor force