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Molly Wood

Host and senior editor

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Molly Wood is the former host and senior editor of "Marketplace Tech," a daily broadcast focused on demystifying the digital economy, and former co-host of "Make Me Smart," where she and co-host Kai Ryssdal would try to make sense of big topics in business, tech and culture.

What was your first job?

Grocery store checker (but I also drove an ice cream truck once).

Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______.

Time, the most precious thing of all.

What is something that everyone should own, no matter how much it costs?

A pet!

What’s the favorite item in your workspace and why?

My electric fireplace! It is both cute and cozy.

 

Episodes by Molly (3,464)

Make Me Smart

Let’s do the numbers on a $15 minimum wage (rerun)

Jan 4, 2022
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Our mental “surge capacity” is maxed out (rerun)

Dec 28, 2021
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Critical race theory has been around for decades — why’s it a powder keg now? (rerun)

Dec 21, 2021
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40 years later, is this the end of Reaganomics? (rerun)

Dec 14, 2021
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Make Me Smart | Episode 569

What's the deal with stadium naming rights?

Dec 1, 2021
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Make Me Smart | Episode 568

Ethereum 101

Nov 30, 2021
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Make Me Smart | Episode 567

OMG omicron

Nov 29, 2021
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How We Survive | Season 1 | Episode 8

How We Change

Nov 24, 2021
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Make Me Smart | Episode 564

What will Covid-19 cases in America look like this winter?

Nov 19, 2021
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Make Me Smart | Episode 563

Crypto lovers go all in on the Constitution

Nov 18, 2021
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Marketplace Tech Blogs

The Source Code: Ellen Pao

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 15, 2017
Our conversation with Ellen Pao on the pervasive sexual harassment problem in venture capital.
Ellen Pao leaves the San Francisco Superior Court Civic Center Courthouse during a lunch break from her trial on March 25, 2015, in San Francisco. Pao, Reddit's interim CEO, is suing her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million alleging she was sexually harassed.
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How venture capital works

Why discrimination in venture capital runs deep

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 15, 2017
Ellen Pao on why it's going to take more than a few leaders stepping down to solve the problem.
Ellen Pao, the interim CEO of Reddit, sued her former employer, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, for $16 million, alleging she was sexually harassed by male officials.
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The powerful hold of Silicon Valley's venture capital priesthood

by Kai Ryssdal , Molly Wood and Shaheen Ainpour
Nov 14, 2017
Marketplace Tech's Molly wood tells how a small, influential group of mostly men have a tendency to fund ... mostly men.
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How venture capital works

A startup that's capitalizing on the untapped hair extensions market

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 13, 2017
Mayvenn, an e-commerce platform, allows stylists to sell the accessories directly to their clients.
Hair extensions and wigs are a $5 billion market in the U.S.
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Weekly Wrap

What could the future hold for the GOP tax bill?

by Molly Wood
Nov 10, 2017
It might need a bit of tinkering in order to move forward.
Chairman Kevin Brady, (R-TX) (C), conducts the House Ways and Means Committee markup of the Republicans tax reform plan titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act., on Capitol Hill November 9, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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Marketplace Tech Blogs

Silicon Valley once sold little more than microchips. How did it become the capital of tech?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 7, 2017
Historian Leslie Berlin's new book explores Silicon Valley's transformation into a tech hub.
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Will China's brand-obsessed consumers shell out 2 months' salary for an iPhone X?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 3, 2017
The country is important to Apple's growth.
New iPhone X sits on a dock at an Apple showroom in Sydney on November 3, 2017
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How social media exacerbates the racial divide

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Nov 1, 2017
Facebook's general counsel told Congress that Russian propaganda remains a problem.
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Can technology make the census more accurate?

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 31, 2017
The census influences how hundreds of billions of dollars are spent. Will reaching out online improve the response rate?
Forms for Census 2010 are displayed during an event April 1, 2010 in Washington, DC.
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How to protect your business from the latest cyber attack

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 26, 2017
Bad Rabbit ransomware has started spreading in the U.S.
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