Interviews with tech founders and innovators
Today’s guest is Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen – serial entrepreneur, inventor, pioneer in VR, medical imaging and telepathic technology, former professor at MIT Media Lab and currently, founder of Openwater.
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Today’s special guest is Dex Hunter-Torricke, a speechwriter and Communications leader who has had the unique experience of working closely with top tech leaders including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg,…
Today’s guest is Brit inventor Tom Lawton who has married the skill of design and engineering to create some really special products including BubblePix which would allow you to take 360 degree panor…
Today’s guest is Ayah Bdeir, a Lebanese engineer, interactive artist, social activist, and founder and inventor of littleBits. Pioneering in the open source hardware space, littleBits is the easy-to…
Today’s guest is Jane Metcalfe, co-founder of WIRED and founder of NEO.LIFE.
In 1993, Jane and Louis Rossetto founded WIRED leading the charge in informing, education and exciting the world about the …
Today’s guest is Ken Miller who was employee number twenty two at PayPal. Having originally joined Elon Musk’s X.com, Ken was in charge of anti-fraud which was a difficult job at the best of times, n…
Today’s guest is Gil Perry, Co-Founder and CEO of D-ID the technology company behind the viral MyHeritage clips where old photos have been brought to life.
A former Commander in the Special Forces uni…
Firstly, huge apologies for saying Juicero wrong during this episode - I should have looked up the pronunciation beforehand! I thought the company was called Juiceroo!
Right, apology out of the way an…
Today’s guest is Kevin Bethune – designer, innovator, founder, engineer and author.
Kevin has had a multi-faceted career, starting out as a mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry before foc…
It’s hard to believe it but has been a year now since I kicked off the show and as I have gained tens of thousands of new listeners since then, I thought it might be nice to head back in time and re-…
Today’s guest is Noor Shaker – a Syrian serial biotech entrepreneur, computer scientist and inventor.
Noor started life in Syria where she fell in love with technology and the potential of Artificial …
Today’s guest is designer, founder and CEO, Cat Noone.
Cat grew up with her grandparents in Brooklyn, New York. She started her career in web design and then worked in special education before foundi…
As it’s International Women’s Day, I wanted to do something a little different and hand the episode over to some of the amazing women I have had on the show and I will link to each of their original …
Today’s guest is Sherell Dorsey, founder and CEO of The Plug – an online news and insights platform covering black tech founders, companies and ecosystems.
She is also author of the book, Upper Hand:…
"It was hard and we succeeded." This is a quote from David Sacks, entrepreneur, investor and an early PayPal employee and I think it sums up the PayPal story well.
PayPal is a unique and pivotal compa…
Today’s guest is Brendan Dawes - an award-winning artist whose career has focused on using generative processes involving data, machine learning and algorithms, to create interactive installations, e…
What does the future of education look like? This is a question I have pondered for the last ten years or so and today’s guest - Josh Dahn – has the answer.
Seven years ago, Josh was teaching Elon Mu…
Today’s guest is Joe Fernandez – A Cuban American entrepreneur, probably best known for being the co-founder of Klout which launched in August 2008. Klout was years ahead of its time because it measu…
Today’s guest is entrepreneur and investor Soraya Darabi.
Soraya started her career as the New York Times’ first-ever Manager of Digital Partnerships and Social Media, right at the dawn of social medi…
Today’s guest Adam Wiggins, probably most well known for being co-founder of Heroku – a platform as a service that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications in the cloud.
On his websi…