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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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New novel imagines tech industry "solving" childbirth

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
Jun 4, 2018
Are there some things that just shouldn't be made easier?
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Are we trading security for emojis on Venmo?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Jun 1, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission found the app's security and privacy protections disclosures lacking.
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Are traders messing with the price of bitcoin? And why should you care?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 31, 2018
The U.S. is reportedly investigating price manipulation in digital currencies.
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Diverse startups could get traction from chip giant Intel

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
May 30, 2018
Intel Capital has been funding diverse startups for a few years. Now it's broadened its definition of diversity.
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The Craig behind the internet's most famous list

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 29, 2018
Craig Newmark founded Craigslist, Inc. in 1995; the site has changed little since then.
Craig Newmark at an event in New York City on March 11, 2016.
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Venture capitalist John Doerr on the virtues and perils of setting goals

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 28, 2018
The legendary venture capitalist talks about his new book on measuring the right goals.
John Doerr of the venture firm Kleiner Perkins, author of the new book "Measure What Matters."
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What's the risk when a company is identified with its CEO?

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
May 25, 2018
Celebrity founders can be a burden sometimes.
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at the Tesla Design Studio in Hawthorne, California, in 2015.
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5 things you need to know about the GDPR

by Molly Wood
May 24, 2018
Yeah, we'll tell you what the acronym stands for.
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The problem of governments using facial recognition software

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 24, 2018
"They know both the question and the answer," one CEO says.
A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
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Should a machine have to tell you if it's a machine?

by Molly Wood and Stephanie Hughes
May 23, 2018
Can a robot make a dinner reservation? Google is working on it, but should they?
The Shadow Robot company's dextrous hand robot holds an Apple at the Streetwise Robots event held at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on May 6, 2008 in London, England. 
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