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Rest of World Wants to Set a New Path for International Tech Coverage

Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis tell Big Technology Podcast that North America and Europe must look outside to fix their problems inside

Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero
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25 min readMar 17, 2021

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Sophie Schmidt and Louise Matsakis

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In 2019, Sophie Schmidt founded Rest of World, a news site dedicated to telling technology stories about what’s happening outside of North America and Europe. After watching her father, Eric Schmidt, run Google for 10 years, she became convinced that the rest of the globe would drive tech’s next era. And so understanding how it was developing there was imperative. Schmidt joins Big Technology Podcast this week with Louise Matsakis, a senior editor at Rest of World, to discuss the site’s work to date, and where it’s heading from here.

Alex Kantrowitz: Welcome, Sophie and Louise. Companies use the term “Rest of World” to

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Alex Kantrowitz
OneZero

Veteran journalist covering Big Tech and society. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://bigtechnology.com.