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MARGARET O'MARA

Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair and Professor of American History, University of Washington
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  • 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.

    Interested in having me speak at your event? Visit my page at Chartwell Speakers.

  • Television and radio

    "Why the '996' schedule is capturing the attention of Silicon Valley leadership," NPR Weekend Edition, November 2025

    "Will DeepSeek Disrupt American AI's First-Mover Advantage?" Marketplace, February 2025

    "Tech's History With the White House," Bloomberg TV, January 2025


    "Tech News and Trends that Shaped 2024," KQED Forum, December 2024

    "Rise of the Billionaires," Paramount+ (USA) and worldwide, 2023

    "Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Finance and Tech Industries," KQED Forum, March 2023

    "Why Are So Many People Being Fired in Tech?" ABC Radio National (Australia), January 2023

    "Tech Layoffs Are Happening in a Stormier Economy Than a Year Ago," NPR Morning Edition, January 2023

    "Silicon Valley's Future as China Rises," NHK-World Japan, February 2022


    "The Elizabeth Holmes Trial," WBUR On Point, January 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

    Podcasts

    "Is AI the new electricity?" Booming, July 2025

    "Beyond the Myth of Silicon Valley's Origins," UnSILOed, May 2025

    "The Broligarchy," Close All Tabs, April 2025

    "Revisiting Microsoft's Startup Years, In Search of New Insights (Microsoft @ 50 Series)," Geekwire Radio, November 2024

    "The Original Valley Boys," 60 Minutes: A Second Look, October 2024

    "The Rise and Fall of the Tech Lobby's Influence in DC," Your Undivided Attention, September 2024

    "Margaret O'Mara Starts with the People," Drafting the Past, January 2024

    "What We Can Learn from History," Remarkable People with Guy Kawasaki, July 2023

    "The Code," in conversation with Niall Ferguson, Hoover Institution, January 2023

    "The Changing Ideology of Silicon Valley," The Economist Money Talks Podcast, December 2022

    "Silicon Valley Booms and Busts," The Odd Lots Podcast, November 2022

    "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

    Print media

    "Peter Thiel Doubles Down on Patriotism in the Trump Era," The Economist, April 2025

    "The Luxury Bunkers of the Superrich," Handelsblatt, April 2025

    "Elon Musk Brought a Silicon Valley Mindset to DC. It's Been a Disaster," The Los Angeles Times, March 2025

    "What Kind of World Do Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to Create?" Inc., February 2025

    "How Silicon Valley Bank's Failure Will Affect the Tech Industry," Vox, March 2023

    "Should the Tech Industry Be Blamed for SVB's Collapse?" NBC News, March 2023

    „Ich habe seit 2015 darauf gewartet, dass die Tech-Blase platzt,“ Capital, February 2023

    « Dans la tech, il y a une longue histoire de succès et de flops » Le Monde, December 2022

    "Why the World Fell for Sam Bankman-Fried," WIRED, December 2022

    "Survival Lessons from Past Tech Downturns," The Wall Street Journal, December 2022

    "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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