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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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A young digital media company sees an opportunity in black millennials

by Molly Wood
Nov 14, 2018
The AfroTech conference in San Francisco is part of Blavity's events strategy.
Blavity’s Morgan DeBaun and Jeff Nelson on stage at AfroTech 2018.
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An argument against Big Tech being so big

by Molly Wood
Nov 13, 2018
A former senior advisor to the FTC makes the case.
An Apple laptop sits on a podium with the Google logo during a Google special event in 2010 in San Francisco.
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Can apps help veterans suffering from PTSD?

by Molly Wood
Nov 12, 2018
Experts, and vets themselves, say yes.
Robert Wake, an Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, talks to physical therapist Nicole Bormann before a session in the VA Medical Center August 10, 2009 in St Louis, Missouri. 
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How the midterm elections could shape tech policy

by Molly Wood
Nov 9, 2018
Congress is changing. And so is its attitude toward tech.
Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, who won a Senate seat in Tuesday's election, has ties to the telecom industry. 
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A 20-year-old digital copyright law is still being fought about (and copied) today

by Molly Wood
Nov 8, 2018
Critics say the law is too broad, and that's had unintended consequences.
Demonstrators picket the U.S. embassy for the freedom of Russian computer programmer Dmitry Sklyarov Aug. 8, 2001 near the U.S. embassy in Moscow.
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Google offers email with extra security for journalists, politicians, activists ... and you?

by Molly Wood
Nov 7, 2018
What difference could it make for people with valuable info in their inbox?
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That time it was illegal to fix your own electronics ... for almost 20 years

by Molly Wood
Nov 6, 2018
"I think you're going to really see an explosion in the repair economy," the CEO of iFixit says.
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Why it's so hard to stop all those spam calls

by Molly Wood
Nov 5, 2018
Hint: It's complicated.
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Britain to major tech companies: You do business here, you pay taxes here

by Molly Wood
Nov 2, 2018
What a "digital services" tax means for Facebook and Google.
 Google's UK Headquarters on November 01, 2018 in London, England. 
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Should Big Tech pay more to help the homeless in San Francisco?

by Molly Wood
Nov 1, 2018
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks so.
Andrew Loy begs along a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco, California on Tuesday, June, 28, 2016. Homelessness is on the rise in the city irking residents and bringing the problem under a spotlight.
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