Land of the Giants Creators & Guests

Jason Del Rey is a senior correspondent at Vox Media. He has spent the last six years reporting on Amazon, the e-commerce industry, and how technology is transforming brick-and-mortar retail. He is the host of the podcast Land of the Giants, and he is the producer of Code Commerce, an event series featuring unscripted interviews with the most influential entrepreneurs and executives working at the intersection of technology and commerce.Jason Del Rey has been a business journalist since 2007, and has previously covered media and startups for Advertising Age and Inc. magazine. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Alex Kantrowitz is a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News and author of Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever.

Rani Molla is a senior data reporter at Recode and co-host of the podcast Land of the Giants.

Shirin Ghaffary is a reporter for Recode. Prior to that, she worked for BuzzFeed News and Elementum, an enterprise software startup, and interned for the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch.

Peter Kafka is senior correspondent at Recode. He hosts the podcast "Recode Media". He has been reporting on media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. In 2007 he became the managing editor of Silicon Alley Insider, which went on to become Business Insider. In 2008 he moved to AllThingsD.com.

Matt Frassica is an independent radio & podcast producer. He also produced Freakonomics, M.D. podcast.

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DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist, podcaster, and former school administrator. He currently hosts the Crooked Media podcast Pod Save the People.

Maggie Haberman is a journalist. She is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN.

Cher Scarlett is a software engineer and social justice advocate.

Ben Smith is a former BuzzFeed editor and New York Times media columnist.

Yoel Roth is a technology executive. Roth served as the head of Twitter's trust and safety department, a position he stepped down from in November 2022, following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Currently, he is a technology policy fellow at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a technical advisor on the Commission on Information Disorder at the Aspen Institute and a board member at Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media.

Studying Bridge Between Digital and IRL Relationships | First Director of Workplace Connection at WeWork | Ex Match.com, Quoted and Featured in Vanity Fair, NYT and CNBC | Co-Host Season 7 Vox's Land of The Giants

Sangeeta Singh Kurtz is a senior writer at New York Magazine and The Cut.