Hollywood Insider Exposes Big Tech's Real Business Model

About this episode

In this episode, Adrian interviews Steve Puri about the business model of major tech companies and its implications on personal life.

Send us Fan Mail What if the business model of the world's most powerful companies could be summarised in five words? Steal your life. Sell it. That's not a metaphor. That's what happens every time you open Instagram, scroll TikTok, or double-tap your way through another hour of your existence. In this episode, I sit down with Steve Puri — a man with a genuinely unusual vantage point. Former senior executive at DreamWorks and Fox. Part of the visual effects team on Independence Day, which wo...

People in this episode

Host: Adrian

Guest: Steve Puri

Topics covered

• Big Tech
• business model
• social media
• digital life
• media industry

Keywords

• Big Tech
• business model
• social media
• Instagram
• TikTok
• digital privacy
• media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DreamWorks, Fox

Books & works: Independence Day

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