Before I begin today I wanted to ask a question of the audience. This is our seventh

show today we've had some incredible guests on Inside the Hive including Bob Iger, Conan

O'Brien, Patty Jenkins, and many more.

But I wanted to ask you, the listener,

who else you'd like to hear from in the future

and topics you'd love to hear about.

The best way to contact us and let us know

is on Twitter, using either my Twitter handle at Nick Billton, that's N-I-C-K-B-I-L-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-N-T-O, and the best, and let us know is on'd like to hear about we'd love to hear from you.

Now on to my guest today. Kara Swisher started covering tech when I was getting into

trouble in middle school and has been a force of nature ever since. She's broken hundreds of

stories on some of the biggest companies in the industry. She's also become

known for her incredible interviews on stage at the All Things D conference

which later became the Recode conference. There sitting in those big red chairs, Kerr has

interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, from Steve jobs to

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, and also politicians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

As I'm sitting here today, I'm actually sitting in one of those iconic red chairs, which is actually

pretty comfortable.

And Kara is about to tell me some of her deepest darkest secrets about covering this industry

and what happens backstage with some of these abrasive and overly confident personalities.

Kara, thank you so much for joining me today.

Well, thank you, Nicholas.

What does it feel like to be on the other side of the table?

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