Sudhir Breaks the Internet

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4.9 (15)
TECHNOLOGY

The Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies exclusive worlds by embedding himself — with a crack-selling gang, sex workers, the teenage children of billionaires, and most recently, at the highest levels of companies at the vanguard of the digital revolution, including Facebook and Twitter. And now he’s hosting a podcast. In each episode, Venkatesh will reveal what he learned in Silicon Valley and talk with the people he met along the way who are building and running the digital world, and those who are using it in a signal way, digging deep into their motivations and challenging their priorities. Sudhir Breaks the Internet is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.

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Introducing “Sudhir Breaks the Internet”

Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist who has studied crack gangs, sex workers, and gun runners, suddenly found himself working at Facebook, and later at Twitter. Now he’s back from Silicon Valley to explore and explain our overheated digital universe. “Sudhir Breaks the Internet” is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.

16/02/2021

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3 min

Sudhir Venkatesh

Host
Jade Magnus Ogunnaike

Guest

4.9

out of 5

15 Ratings

First four episodes good then goes a bit nuts

22/05/2021

TTxr

Excellent, accurate reflection of the decisions being made inside the company. Then the last episode starts with saying that the campus is overwhelmingly white. This is untrue unless you count Chinese, Eastern European and Indians as white. It then peddles “social justice” completely uncritically. Which also tells you a bit about the way things work there.

The Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studies exclusive worlds by embedding himself — with a crack-selling gang, sex workers, the teenage children of billionaires, and most recently, at the highest levels of companies at the vanguard of the digital revolution, including Facebook and Twitter. And now he’s hosting a podcast. In each episode, Venkatesh will reveal what he learned in Silicon Valley and talk with the people he met along the way who are building and running the digital world, and those who are using it in a signal way, digging deep into their motivations and challenging their priorities. Sudhir Breaks the Internet is a production of the Freakonomics Radio Network.