#1600 – Roger McNamee

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Mar 19 2019 | 00:25:00

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Show Notes

Roger McNamee is former mentor to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and then reluctantly became a critic of the way big tech companies like Facebook and Google are abusing their users’ trust. His new book is: “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.”

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