Dead Cat with Ellen Huet

Eric Newcomer1h 4min

Eric Newcomer

00:05

Welcome

Eric Newcomer

00:13

Alright everybody, welcome to dead cat, Tom do Tom here. And then I'm Eric newcomer, author of newcomer. And with us we have Ellen Hewitt, my old colleague at Bloomberg, do you see your former colleague at Bloomberg? I always say old I don't mean the old like she's not your Andrew Lila, older than you, Eric, but not by that much. Oh, you are by like months, we used to sit next to each other at the office back when people used to go to the office. Oh, that must have been a nightmare. It was I mean,

Ellen Huet

00:44

you know, what happened is I would be on the phone with like, you know, source or talking to somebody, Eric would get on the phone at the same time having his own phone conversation. And the person I would be talking to me on this phone would be like, did someone else just join our call? I hear a voice so loud that he would sound like someone who had dialed into our call rather than sort of sitting next to me.

Tom Dotan

01:05

Yeah, is this a secure line? It sounds like someone else is listening

Eric Newcomer

01:09

to the other thing that would drive me crazy about that. I'm loudest when I'm getting the best information like I loudest when I'm getting real scoops. So all of a sudden everybody starts criticizing me. I'm like, I'm doing great work right now. You know what I mean? It was fucking Bloomberg is open office. But anyway, you know, me not sitting next to Elon was certainly a path that led down to me leaving bloomer financially. It's like, well, you know, I love San Francisco. But then once you don't have to go the office anymore. It's like, Oh, why why I should work for myself. Anyway. Yeah, we're Ellen is one of the foremost experts on we work having written about it as a B reporter. And then creating,

Ellen Huet

01:47

I guess, you say, reporting and hosting a seven part podcast about we were called foundering. So Bloomberg has a like, award winning, right, I have this award winning award winning contest. Yeah, Bloomberg has a podcast series called foundering, where each season tells a different story. First one was that we work. And I'm the host of that. And then second one's not like tick tock and other stuff. It's really good. And I highly recommend you check it out.

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