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Every book Roger McNamee recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Roger McNamee appears on, in one place — not just one.
Roger McNamee is an American businessman, investor, venture capitalist and musician. He is the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Prior to co-founding the firm, McNamee co-founded private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and headed the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund. On Modern Wisdom, Roger McNamee strongly recommended reading or listening to the audiobook of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, citing it as the most important resource for understanding the root economic systems behind tech addiction and data collection, comparing its monumental economic importance in the twenty-first century to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. Later, during an appearance on The Book Review, McNamee discussed his own book, Zucked, explaining that he wrote it to demystify complex technological transitions, shift the focus from technology to people, and show readers and parents of teenagers that individuals actually possess much more power as users than they might realize.
Books recommended by Roger McNamee
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Zucked
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Crisis by Roger McNamee is a revealing insider account that exposes the hidden societal, political, and psychological costs of the platform's unprecedented growth.
Discussed“and I wrote this book because I realized that this transition is so complicated that it needed someone to step forward and say it's not really about technology it's really about people”
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff is a profound economic and sociological study examining how major technology corporations harvest human experience as behavioral data for profit and control.
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”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text by the Scottish thinker often regarded as the father of modern economics, exploring free markets, capitalism, and the mechanics of national wealth.
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”
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Books Roger McNamee wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is Facebook Zucked? - Roger McNamee - #093 | Modern Wisdom | 2019-08-12 | 3 |
| Assessing the Facebook Problem | The Book Review | 2019-02-01 | 4 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and I've written a book called sucked waking up to the facebook catastrophe which has been a platform for activism”