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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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Tesla faces turmoil at the top ... and stiff competition

by Molly Wood
Oct 1, 2018
The company made electric cars exciting, but can it make them ubiquitous?
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at the 2015 Automotive News World Congress in Detroit.
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Unpacking this week's news at Tesla and Facebook

by Amy Scott and Molly Wood
Sep 28, 2018
There are two big stories swirling around two of the tech world’s biggest names at the end of this week: Tesla and Facebook. Tesla’s leadership is up in the air after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday it’s suing CEO Elon Musk for making what it called “false and misleading statements” on Twitter about […]
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AT&T aims to bring more targeted ads to your TV screen

by Molly Wood
Sep 28, 2018
"It's absolutely about competing with Google and Facebook," an Ad Age reporter says.
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Apple: It's time to turn iMessage into a social network

by Molly Wood
Sep 27, 2018
The tech giant is sitting on the Facebook killer. When will it give iMessage to the world?
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Would you leave Facebook if you could take all your friends and photos with you?

by Molly Wood
Sep 27, 2018
Tech companies are trying to figure out how to make it easier to move your data.
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A melting Arctic could be key to faster global internet

by Molly Wood
Sep 26, 2018
With the rise of big data, the internet of things and automated factories, existing internet infrastructure's getting clogged.
Jussi Pekka Joensuu, an adviser for Cinia, holds up a piece of internet sea cable at Cinia's offices in Helsinki. Most global internet communications travel on the 745,000 miles of sea cables buried beneath the ocean floor.
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If you lead people to a more private search engine, will they care?

by Molly Wood
Sep 25, 2018
"People talk a big game here when it comes to privacy, but they don't actually do very much," one venture capitalist says.
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This former political operative now helps tech companies wrangle government

by Molly Wood
Sep 24, 2018
Bradley Tusk's new book "The Fixer" is about breaking the rules while respecting regulation.
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What else can Big Data do? Pick stocks.

by Molly Wood
Sep 21, 2018
Credit card swipes, satellite data, media subscriptions ... all kinds of information fuels data-driven investing.
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Private money rules Silicon Valley, so where does that leave Wall Street?

by Molly Wood
Sep 20, 2018
Private funding, like venture capital, can now grow companies as big as an IPO can. Small investors might get a slice, too.
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