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Make Me Smart

Daily Business News & Culture podcast
Kimberly Adams
Kai Ryssdal
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Mar 13, 2017

Episodes 1371 - 1380 of 1384

  • 7: Lyft co-founder says the company could be profitable by 2018
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    Lyft’s co-founder and president, John Zimmer, won’t mention his company’s main competitor by name. Spoiler alert: It’s Uber. But he is willing to say, “We’ve talked about being profitable next year, we feel very confident in that. We even think there’s the likely scenario that we will be the first U.S. ride-share player to be […]

  • Kai and Molly return to follow up on the President's address to Congress and Travis Kalanick's apology to Uber employees

  • Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood interview Steve Huffman, the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social sharing platform where more than 200 million users share everything from wholesome memes to “ask me anything” sessions with newsmakers and celebrities to topics we couldn’t possibly describe. Huffman also has the “most Reddit answer” to our Make Me Smart question, and […]

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  • Why reputation matters abroad, at home and at Uber. Also, we dig into the protest economy and what that means for the yarn industry.

  • This week, the one thing the Trump administration isn't talking about, David Frum answers our Make Me Smart question, and Part 2 of how to trust government numbers

  • Young people playing 'Pokemon Go' on July 15, 2016 in Hanover, Germany.
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    Kai and Molly talk with author Tim Wu about net neutrality and his new book "The Attention Merchants."

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  • People walk out of a Starbucks coffee shop January 22, 2004 in San Francisco, California. 
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    An update on moral capitalism, business as an unofficial part of American checks and balances and the right to eat waffles on this mini episode.

  • Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court demanding President Donald Trump reverse executive orders on immigration in Washington, D.C., January 30, 2017.
    JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

    Business as a check and balance? Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood talk about the reaction to President Trump's executive order on immigration.

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  • U.S. President Donald Trump poses with labor leaders on January 23, 2017 in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC.
    NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images

    President Donald Trump, the TPP and so much more on our first full episode.

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About the show

Every weekday, Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams break down the news in tech, the economy and culture. How do companies make money from disinformation? How can we tackle student debt? Why do 401(k)s exist? What will it take to keep working moms from leaving the workforce? Together, we dig into complex topics to help make today make sense. Because none of us is as smart as all of us.

Ryssdal has been a trusted broadcaster for two decades and received an Emmy for investigative journalism for “Big Sky, Big Money,” a PBS Frontline documentary about money in politics.

Before coming to Marketplace, Adams reported on the political, social and economic upheaval in Egypt following the Arab Spring. While reporting in Cairo, she received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Religion Communicators Council, and the Association for Women in Communication. She was also competitively selected for the International Women’s Media Foundation “Great Lakes” Reporting fellowship to Uganda, where she reported on environmental, economic and LGBT issues.

“Make Me Smart” is “a podcast to keep up with, even in quarantine,” Vanity Fair says.

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