Burn Book: A Conversation with Kara Swisher (SFS’84)
Join us for a conversation moderated by Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, about Kara Swisher’s new book “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.”
When tech titans crowed that they would “move fast and break things,” Kara Swisher (SFS’84) was moving faster and breaking news. While still at Georgetown, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post as one of the few people in journalism interested in covering the nascent internet. She went on to work for The Wall Street Journal, joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking “D: All Things Digital” conference, as well as pioneering tech news sites. Swisher has interviewed everyone who matters in tech over the past three decades, including Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Meg Whitman, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg, right as they presided over an explosion of world-changing innovation. Part memoir, part history, Burn Book (2024) is a chronicle of tech’s most powerful players by award-winning journalist Kara Swisher.
Steve Case, an esteemed entrepreneur and co-founder of AOL who pioneered making the internet a fixture of modern life, will join Swisher in conversation. They will not only discuss Burn Book, but also share their optimism about tech’s potential to help solve problems and not just create them.
Doors will open at 3 p.m. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Current GU students, faculty, and staff will be asked to show a GUID. Alumni, parents, and guests please register here.
Copies of Burn Book will be available for purchase.
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About the Speakers:
Kara Swisher is the host of the podcast On with Kara Swisher and the cohost of the Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, both distributed by New York magazine. She was also the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, host of the Recode Decode podcast, and coexecutive producer of the Code conference. She was a former contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and host of its Sway podcast and has also worked for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024) is her third book.
Steve Case is one of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists, and a pioneer in making the internet part of everyday life. Case co-founded AOL in 1985 and under his leadership and vision, AOL became the largest and most valuable internet company driving the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. Case is currently the chairman and CEO of Revolution, a Washington, DC-based investment firm that backs entrepreneurs at every stage. Case was the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Case is also the author of two bestselling books.