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Dec 2018

31m 11s

Microsoft Trending Up, Apple Trending Do...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

About this episode

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate whether Microsoft is trending up while Apple is trending down, before discussing the Marriott (Starwood) data breach. They also share their After Hours picks for the week.

Some recent picks:

Robert Stavins (follow on Twitter)
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
RBG (Documentary on Amazon Video)
The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Video)
The Ringer website
Janesville (Amy Goldstein)
Airtable (software)
Small Fry (Lisa Brennan-Jobs)
Educated (Tara Westover)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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