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Last week, Kara and Scott kicked off Pivot Schooled with “Media’s Overnight Chaos,” their razor-sharp analysis on how Covid-19 has upended TV, sports, social media, and more. Here are some highlights:

Are the TikTok security fears misplaced?

• They pressed TikTok General Manager for North America Vanessa Pappas on the Chinese-owned company’s tumultuous week.
  

• Scott gave one of his trademark lightning-speed data-packed presentations on the future of ad-supported media and recurring revenue bundles (rundles!).
  
• Columbia Journalism School’s Emily Bell chimed in to discuss the weaponization of social media.
  
• Casey Newton, Liz Plank, and comedian Kathy Griffin all made guest appearances.
  

Couldn’t make it? Watch the video on demand and register to tune in live for the next four events!

TOMORROW: “The New Generation of Innovators”

Featuring unscripted interviews with:

Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar
How she’s navigating the platform’s core functions in the wake of America’s racial reckoning

Balderton Capital General Partner Rana Yared
She led crypto investments for Goldman Sachs and is now focused on emerging market opportunities

Plus:

More Prof G insight on which startups will die and and which will thrive during this tumultuous time

Reigning quiz champion Casey Newton will go head to head with New York Times’s Taylor Lorenz in the second installment of Silicon Valley’s favorite game show, No Pressure!!

Audience questions, celebrity guest appearances, predictions, bingo, swag, and more!

PS: $20 from every Pivot Schooled ticket sold between June 29 and September 2, 2020, will be used to support communities in crisis.