KARA SWISHER Mother of (4) Dragons. Future resident of Hawaii. Occasional podcast lady.

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 KARA SWISHER Mother of (4) Dragons. A future resident of Hawaii. Occasional podcast lady. an American technology-business journalist who has a strong reputation in Silicon Valley for breaking down barriers and preconceptions. Swisher is well-known for her coverage and reporting style.

She has a massive Twitter following. Swisher covers topics such as technology, politics, social issues, and current events.

Kara Swisher previously covered digital feeds for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. Swisher, a passionate believer in feminism, is not afraid to speak her heart, which is why she receives so much love on social media.

Kara Swisher hosted "Sway," a New York Times Opinion interview podcast about power. From 2018 to 2022, she was a contributing Opinion writer.

Ms. Swisher has hosted hundreds of high-profile interviews with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Stacey Abrams, Kim Kardashian, and President Barack Obama. Her no-holds-barred technology industry coverage earned her the moniker "Silicon Valley's most feared and well-liked journalist."

In a recent event, she said that Facebook was intentionally ignorant of the data breach incident and chastised its founder for supposedly failing to take direct responsibility for user information on its site.

Swisher's frank interviews with tech and media titans have left a lasting impression on viewers. We put Kara Swisher's net worth on our list of the top ten most influential persons in technology without hesitation.

Ms. Swisher attended Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she authored her first technology piece for the school paper (in 1980 when pay phones were the technology). She later earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, worked as an editor at The City Paper in Washington, D.C., and interned at The Washington Post, where she worked her way up to the reporter and covered emerging digital companies such as AOL.

Ms. Swisher began her famed "Boom Town" column in The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco office in the 1990s as one of the first writers on the internet beat.

She co-produced the technology conference "D: All Things Digital" with her longtime collaborator Walt Mossberg, where they interviewed significant tech personalities such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The pair then established Recode, which was purchased by Vox in 2015.

Ms. Swisher is also the co-host of the "Pivot" podcast and the Code Conference's executive producer (Kara Swisher code). She is the author of "aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web," as well as the co-author of the sequel, "There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere," and is now working on a memoir. She previously appeared and consulted on HBO's "Silicon Valley," which is now owned by WarnerMedia, and she also produced a companion podcast for Season 3 of HBO's "Succession."

She currently resides in Washington, D.C., with her wife, children, and several cats and dogs.

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