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The Times Tech Podcast

From Silicon Valley to The City, tech journalists Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott bring you the inside track on the new industrial revolution.


Co-hosted from San Francisco and London, this weekly podcast delivers the latest news and freshest interviews with the people creating the future.


As West Coast Correspondent for The Sunday Times, Danny is on the ground to witness the technological whirlwind that first roared out Silicon Valley. From London, working as The Times' Technology Business Editor, Katie has seen the waves of boom and bust rolling through one of the world's financial capitals. Together they explore this strange new world of high finance and tech giants, explaining how we got here and what is just around the corner.


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Business News Ai Business News Tech Technology Interviews
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
44 minutes
Episodes
416
Years Active
2017 - 2025
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Parler's George Farmer:

Parler's George Farmer: "Hate speech is subjective"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Farmer, chief executive Parler, to talk about how he started there (5:40), growing up in London (9:15), backing Brexit (14:40), get…

01:01:49  |   Fri 21 Jan 2022
Celsius’ Alex Mashinsky: “This is a fight for all the money in the world”

Celsius’ Alex Mashinsky: “This is a fight for all the money in the world”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, to talk about creating a crypto fund manager (3:25), managing risk (8:40), growing up in Israel (11:50…
01:09:40  |   Fri 14 Jan 2022
SeedInvest’s Ryan Feit: “The best founders are drop-outs and criminals”

SeedInvest’s Ryan Feit: “The best founders are drop-outs and criminals”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Feit, co-founder of SeedInvest, to talk about creating the Robinhood for private startups (3:45), working at Lehman Brothers before t…
00:52:25  |   Fri 07 Jan 2022
Glorify's Ed Beccle:

Glorify's Ed Beccle: "James Corden, Michael Bublé and God"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ed Beccle, co-founder of Glorify, to talk about his being a teenage entrepreneur (3:30), moving to London (8:00), his other businesses (10…
00:48:58  |   Wed 22 Dec 2021
Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans

This week Danny speaks with Benedict Evans, a technologist. In this episode they cover a range of things including web 3.0, cryptocurrency regulating tech and the future of tech as a whole.  

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00:53:23  |   Fri 17 Dec 2021
Cambrian Biopharma's James Peyer:

Cambrian Biopharma's James Peyer: "70 will be the new 50"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on James Peyer, co-founder of Cambrian Biopharma, to talk about the unique structure of his startup (6:30), the goal (8:45), alighting on longevity as a 15…
00:50:57  |   Fri 10 Dec 2021
Genomic Prediction’s Elizabeth Carr: “Scoring embryos”

Genomic Prediction’s Elizabeth Carr: “Scoring embryos”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Elizabeth Carr, America’s first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization and patient advocate at Genomic Prediction, to talk about the new…
00:50:35  |   Fri 03 Dec 2021
Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving!

We take a break this week in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Back next week with a new episode!

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00:01:18  |   Fri 26 Nov 2021
Cruise’s Oliver Cameron: “The Everest of self-driving tech”

Cruise’s Oliver Cameron: “The Everest of self-driving tech”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Oliver Cameron, founder of Voyage and VP of product at Cruise, to talk about the arrival of self-driving cars (3:40), dropping out of uni …
00:45:26  |   Fri 19 Nov 2021
Think Better's Heath Jansen:

Think Better's Heath Jansen: "Riding the millennial super cycle"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Heath Jansen, founder of Think Better Group, to talk about his start running an aluminium smelter (3:30), coming to London (7:00), his ‘Je…
00:38:43  |   Fri 12 Nov 2021
A taste test of lab-grown chicken with Upside Foods' Uma Valeti

A taste test of lab-grown chicken with Upside Foods' Uma Valeti

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Uma Valeti, founder of Upside Foods, to talk about creating “cultivated meat” doing a taste test (4:00), the process (6:00), why he is working on this (…
00:32:53  |   Fri 05 Nov 2021
Bessemer’s David Cowan: “The more off-the-wall the better”

Bessemer’s David Cowan: “The more off-the-wall the better”

The SundayTimes’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on David Cowan to talk about Bessemer Venture Partners' anti-portfolio (4:00), missing Google (6:05), why tech is accelerating (7:25), why he …

00:46:11  |   Fri 29 Oct 2021
Twilio’s Jeff Lawson: “Build or die”

Twilio’s Jeff Lawson: “Build or die”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Jeff Lawson, founder of Twilio, to talk about what the company does (3:15), starting out in 2008 (9:15), running an extreme sports retailer (11:40), tap…
00:59:54  |   Fri 22 Oct 2021
Open Philanthropy's Holden Karnofsky:

Open Philanthropy's Holden Karnofsky: "Artificial intelligence and the most important century"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, to talk about philanthropy (3:30), teaming up with Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz and hits-ba…
00:49:01  |   Fri 15 Oct 2021
Planet's Will Marshall:

Planet's Will Marshall: "Taking care of spaceship earth

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Will Marshall, founder of Planet, to talk about going public (4:20), sneaking smartphones onto a rocket (5:40), starting Planet (9:30), photographing ea…

00:51:39  |   Fri 08 Oct 2021
Sila's Gene Berdichevsky:

Sila's Gene Berdichevsky: "The world's going 100% electric"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Gene Berdichevsky, founder of Sila, to talk about the sudden global decision to electrify transport (4:30), his history at Tesla (7:50), creating a new …
00:51:09  |   Fri 01 Oct 2021
Colossal's George Church:

Colossal's George Church: "Elephants in Alaska"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Church, co-founder of Colossal, to talk about genetically bringing back the wooly mammoth (3:40), what has made this possible (7:00…

00:34:37  |   Fri 24 Sep 2021
Kettle's Nat Manning:

Kettle's Nat Manning: "Insuring the 'biblical stuff'"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Nat Manning, founder of Kettle, to talk about how climate change is upending insurance (5:00), the role of reinsurers as “the second parac…
00:56:17  |   Fri 17 Sep 2021
High Fidelity's Philip Rosedale:

High Fidelity's Philip Rosedale: "The trouble with building the metaverse"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on High Fidelity’s Philip Rosedale to talk about virtual worlds before the Internet (4:00), founding Second Life (8:00), capturing the zeitge…

01:04:55  |   Fri 10 Sep 2021
Houzz's Adi Tatarko:

Houzz's Adi Tatarko: "From nightmare project to home-improvement unicorn"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Adi Tatarko, founder of unicorn Houzz, to talk about the home improvement boom pandemic (2:45), the pandemic (5:15), ending up in California from Israel…
00:44:17  |   Fri 03 Sep 2021
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