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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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 416
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
IndieBio’s Arvind Gupta: “Recoding life”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Arvind Gupta, founder of IndeBio, to talk about why he founded his laboratory-venture capital hybrid (4:00), putting all the world’s knowl…
00:40:13 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Houseparty’s Ben Rubin and Sima Sistani: “An epidemic of loneliness”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Rubin and Sima Sistani, founders of video chat app Houseparty, to talk about trying and failing multiple times (3:00), why live stream…
00:52:34 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Five Questions with... Louis Hyman
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Louis Hyman, Cornell University professor and author of the book Temp, to answer five big about the present and future of work in the age …
00:38:27 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
Index Ventures' Danny Rimer and Jan Hammer: "Quinoa-bots and sneaker heads"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer and Jan Hammer to scooters (3:05), flying cars (6:), self-driving cars (7:00), why Deliveroo will stay indepen…
00:43:30 |
Fri 02 Nov 2018
89up's Mike Harris: "Hiding in plain sight"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Mike Harris, founder of 89up, to talk about his work uncovering Russia’s election meddling in Brexit (2:25), the importance of Facebook groups in spread…
00:26:14 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Mick Batyske: "DJing is like angel investing"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mick Batyske, to talk about becoming Big Tech’s chosen DJ (4:30), paying his way through grad school (5:30), moving to New York (8:05), bid…
00:44:28 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Naveen Jain: "Moon babies and optional illness"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on tech tycoon Naveen Jain to talk about solving bigproblems (2:30), turning the moon into the “eighth continent” with his company Moon Expre…
00:52:27 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Longevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Laura Deming, a 24-year-old longevity investor to talk about young scientists (3:05), the goal of the Longevity Fund (4:30), her incubator…
00:43:35 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Former Google PR chief Jessica Powell: "Light-sabre aerobics"
TheThe Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jessica Powell, former Google communications chief, to talk about her new satire of Silicon Valley, The Big Disruption (2:35), how at h…
00:44:06 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
Lambda School's Austen Allred: "Go to university - if you can pay for it in cash"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Austen Allred, founder of Lambda School, to talk about how he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in his car (2:50), getting his first job (5:05), his fir…
00:43:05 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
Five Questions with... Amazon's former chief scientist Andreas Weigend
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a "Monks to Metallica" tour of the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco before sitting down with Andreas Weigend, Amazon's first chief scien…
00:59:13 |
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Babylon Health's Ali Parsa: "A doctor in your pocket"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ali Parsa, founder of Babylon Health, to talk about ending healthcare as we know it (4:00), doing to medicine what Google did to informati…
00:32:15 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Five Questions with.... Adam Fisher
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Adam Fisher, author of Valley of Genius: the Uncensored History of Silicon Valley as told by the Hackers, Founders and Freaks who Made it …
00:48:15 |
Fri 03 Aug 2018
HVMN's Geoff Woo and Brianna Stubbs: "Metabolic Dominance"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Geoff Woo and Dr Brianna Stubbs of HVMN, developer of a synthetic ketone drink to “optimise humans,” to talk about Woo's his early days ti…
00:45:22 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Calm's Michael Acton Smith: "Dopamine-frazzled zombies"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Michael Acton Smith, co-founder of Calm, the hit meditation app, to talk about starting out with the idea five years ago (4:40), the rise …
00:46:46 |
Fri 20 Jul 2018
Five Questions with... Jason Calacanis - PART 2
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jason Calacanis, prominent angel investor, for the second part of their interview, in which he answers the final two of five big tech ques…
00:40:06 |
Tue 17 Jul 2018
Five Questions with... Jason Calacanis - PART 1
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jason Calacanis, prominent angel investor, to answer five big questions. In part 1 of a two-part podcast, he answers: 1. Can Facebook be d…
00:54:09 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Color Genomics’ Othman Laraki: “A crystal ball for cancer”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Othman Laraki, founder of Color Genomics, to talk about taking genomics to masses by reducing the cost by an order of magnitude (4:45), the…
00:47:17 |
Fri 06 Jul 2018
What3words' Chris Sheldrick: "Driver, take me to 'Table Chair Spoon'"
The Sunday Times’ Danny Fortson brings on Chris Sheldrick, founder of what3words, to talk about the problem with addresses (4:25), why we need a new system (5:10), the challenge of convincing people …
00:37:45 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
WeTransfer's Damien Bradfield: "The future of the paid Internet"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Damian Bradfield, co-founder of file-sharing company Wetransfer, to talk about setting up near Muscle Beach (3:30), being the alternative …
00:38:30 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
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