Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2019-08-12
Chris Williamson & Roger McNamee: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #093
Is Facebook Zucked? - Roger McNamee - #093
Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, musician and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Roger has had a front seat to the biggest developments in Silicon Valley for the last 30 years and this culminated with his time as an early investor and key advisor to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook.
Roger McNamee recommended The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and discussed The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Chris Williamson recommended Zucked by Roger McNamee.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Recommended“earlier this year a professor from Harvard Business School names Shoshanna subha published a book called the age of surveillance captain it actually came out in Europe in the fall of last year but it came out in the States in January and it changed our lives because Shoshanna has been studying Google for more than a decade and she”
Where to get it
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The Wealth of Nations
Discussed“I really feel strongly about this that this book is to the 21st century what Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was to the 18th and 19th”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Zucked
“and I've written a book called sucked waking up to the facebook catastrophe which has been a platform for activism”