Speaking & Media
I regularly speak to public, business, and academic audiences and appear on national and international broadcast television, radio, and podcasts. Here are some selected links.
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Television appearances
"Silicon Valley's Future as China Rises," NHK-World Japan, February 2022
"What Elizabeth Holmes' Conviction Means for Tech Entrepreneurs,"" PBS NewsHour, January 2022
Valley of Hype, Yahoo Finance, September 2021
The Dark Side of the 90s, Vice TV, August 2021
"Amazon Workers' Push to Unionize Is Over for Now," PBS NewsHour, April 2021
"How Might President Donald Trump Be Remembered?," BBC Newsnight, January 2021
"Q&A," CSPAN, September 2019
"The Code," MSNBC Morning Joe, July 2019
"Was 2016 a Pivotal Election?" PBS American Forum, November 2016
Radio & Podcasts
"The Making of Silicon Valley," The Prof G Podcast, February 2022
"A History Lesson that Shatters the Myth of Silicon Valley" The Big Tech Podcast, March 2022
"The Elizabeth Holmes Trial," WBUR On Point, January 2022
"How State Funding Built Silicon Valley," Tech Won't Save Us, May 2021
"What You Should Know About The Defense Production Act" WBUR On Point, April 2020
"Silicon Valley doesn't understand its own history," Recode/Decode with Kara Swisher, December 2019
"Silicon Valley's Journey from Obscurity to Global Powerhouse," KCRW Press Play, August 2019
"The End of Privacy," Future Tense, ABC Radio (Australia), February 2019
"Q&A: Margaret O'Mara on the History of Innovation and What Makes a Tech Hub Tick," Geekwire Radio, April 2014
Media commentary
"Everything Is Innovative When You Ignore the Past," Vice, March 2020
"Why Silicon Valley and big tech don't innovate anymore," The Atlantic, January 2020
"Can Donald Trump Win Reelection in 2020?" Fortune, January 2020
"From Sputnik to Brexit: the case for public research spending," The Financial Times, December 2019
"A Decade of Promise and Peril," Silicon Valley Business Journal, December 2019
"L'armée a joué un rôle central dans la Silicon Valley," Les Echoes, August 2019
"Silicon Valley's Journey from Obscurity to Global Powerhouse," KCRW Press Play, August 2019
"Why we need history majors to understand our future," Crosscut, April 2019
"How does this year's wave of IPOs compare to 1999's?" Marketplace, April 2019
"Amazon's Hard Bargain Extends Far Beyond New York," The New York Times, March 2019
"Real Estate Brokers Despair Over Amazon's Abrupt Reversal," Bloomberg Businessweek, March 2019
"Boomtown Seattle," The Seattle Times, February 2018
"Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon, Steps Out," The New York Times, January 2018
"How Steve Case Became Washington's Tech Whisperer," Politico, June 2017
"How America's Two Tech Hubs are Converging," The Economist, May 2017
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