Interviews with tech founders and innovators
Today's guest is Polina Marinova Pompliano, writer and founder of The Profile –a newsletter and media company that profiles the world’s most successful people from founders to athletes, actors to au…
Today’s guest is Jennifer Phan - co-founder of Passionfroot - a platform empowering creators to partner directly with brands and agencies to monetise their product and services, be it a podcast, a ne…
Dr Alvy Ray Smith is the co-founder of Pixar, a computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer graphics.
After starting his career in academia, Alvy had an epiphany following a serious skiin…
Today’s guest is Michael Gibson, co-founder of 1517 – a venture fund he started in June 2015 with Danielle Strachman which backs, and I quote, “dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists, …
Interview with Dean Forbes - hugely successful turnaround tech CEO who has led several companies to massively successful exits.
But let’s go back in time. Dean experienced hardship growing up and his…
Steve Furber is a seminal computer scientist, mathematician and hardware designer whose work includes the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor which can be found in over 100 billi…
Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.
I wanted to come o…
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, co-founder of Stemettes an award-winning social initiative focused on getting girls, young women and non-binary people excited about, and encouraged into STEM fields throu…
Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz is a serial tech entrepreneur and visionary. He co-founded Mako Surgical in 2004 — a robotics company specialising in manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance tec…
Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.
I wanted to try something a…
Today’s guest is John Maeda – famed artist, designer, technologist, author, ex MIT professor, and once President of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, among many other accolades - most re…
Today’s guest is Chris Sheldrick, co-founder and CEO of what3words – the startup which is quite literally mapping the world.
Chris Sheldrick grew up as a gifted musician who thought his music career w…
Today’s conversation is with Donna Auguste and I wanted to replay her episode from Series 2 because it’s actually Ada Lovelace Day today which is an international celebration of the achievements of w…
Something I don’t tell many people is that when I was seven years old, two of my school friends and their family were shot dead. As you can imagine, it has had a long-lasting impact on me and all tho…
Today’s guest is Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value, a media and product business that I like to say takes complex ideas and makes them digestible through visual design.
He also sells incredible…
Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.
If you are a new l…
Today’s guest is Deb Liu – CEO of Ancestry.com, the billion dollar genealogy company. Deb also serves on the Board of Intuit and is the co-founder of Women in Product.
In this interview, Deb talks me…
What can I say about today’s guest? He started life in London before being sent to live with his grandmother in Ghana at a just a few months old. He was a young boy when he returned to live on a Lond…
50 years ago today, Atari was born! So I am celebrating with a REPLAY of Series 2 episode with the legendary Atari founder Nolan Bushnell – serial entrepreneur and a pioneer of the video games indus…
This is a re-released episode from Series 1 with Second Life founder and High Fidelity co-founder Philip Rosedale.
As a child, Philip Rosedale dreamed of creating a fully-fledged virtual society and t…