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
SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Sens Research Foundation, to talk the possibility of turning humans into a "multi-century species" (1:40), …
00:44:05 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Hooked’s Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia: “We went from zero to 40 million users"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia to talk about remaking reading for millennials (4:00), on reaching 40m people in a year (5:10) creating “ch…
00:40:36 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
Finless Foods’ Mike Selden: “We brew fish meat”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mike Selden, founder of Finless Foods, to talk about growing fish flesh without the fish (3:15) how it works (4:30), turning mush into fil…
00:39:57 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
Tim O'Reilly: "It's our brains that are being hacked"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim O’Reilly, oracle of the tech industry, to talk about why 2017 may go down as a watershed year (3:00), how Facebook is like Microsoft (4…
00:39:54 |
Fri 26 Jan 2018
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to talk about his plan to save the news industry with his latest startup Wikitribune (3:15), what’s wro…
00:35:04 |
Fri 19 Jan 2018
ROBOTS SPECIAL: Inside the rise of the machines
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a deep dive into the world of robots to chart the the beginnings of the machine age (2:30), the creation of the now-ubiquitous (ROS) robot ope…
00:38:16 |
Sat 09 Dec 2017
Trulia founder Pete Flint: “Either the world was ending, or we had an opportunity”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pete Flint, founder of Trulia and partner at NFX, to talk about his plans to remake the venture capital industry (3:15), growing up in Esse…
00:42:43 |
Sat 02 Dec 2017
Comma.ai's George Hotz: "Computers don't get drunk"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai to talk about how he plans to "win" the race to develop self-driving cars (2:45), improving autonomy (5:3…
00:26:08 |
Sat 25 Nov 2017
Baroness Beeban Kidron: "Kids are more than clickbait"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Baroness Beeban Kidron talk about her crusade against Big Tech, “age appropriate” design (1:40), turning 50 pages of terms and conditions …
00:36:53 |
Sat 18 Nov 2017
Tanium’s Orion Hindawi: “This is a snake-oil industry”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Orion Hindawi, cyber-security billionaire and founder of Tanium, to talk about how the world is waking up to the security problem (1:50), how criminals …
00:32:00 |
Sat 11 Nov 2017
Martha Lane Fox: “A Geneva Convention for the web”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Martha Lane Fox, dotcom pioneer and Twitter board member, to talk about the tech industry’s hubris (2:00), joining Twitter (5:45), explain…
00:41:59 |
Sat 04 Nov 2017
NYU's Scott Galloway: "Being an innovator doesn't make you Jesus"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Galloway of NYU's Stern School of Business and author of The Four, to talk about how the big Internet companies Amazon, Apple, Faceb…
00:38:38 |
Sat 28 Oct 2017
SPECIAL: inside the cryptocurrency craze
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson talks to cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and investors about the boom in initial coin offerings, or ICO’s, (1:45), why the underlying technology may be…
00:33:35 |
Sat 21 Oct 2017
Scribd’s Trip Adler: “In the future, we won’t buy or own anything.”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Trip Adler, founder of Scribd, to talk about creating the “Netflix of reading” (2:00), teaming up with newspapers (4:30), the evolving att…
00:35:56 |
Sat 14 Oct 2017
Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew: “People aren’t sneaking out of class to sext”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, the first investor in Snapchat, to talk about moving to America from Australia (2:10), working…
00:39:35 |
Sat 07 Oct 2017
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: “You’re selling attention”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ev Williams, chief executive of online publisher Medium and Twitter co-founder, to talk about upping Twitter’s character limit (2:20), the…
00:36:33 |
Sat 30 Sep 2017
Plenty's Matt Barnard: "You’re eating year-old apples”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Barnard, co-founder of indoor-farming startup Plenty, to talk about building a ‘global agricultural utility’ (4:25), America’s outsiz…
00:35:29 |
Sat 23 Sep 2017
Plug and Play's Saeed Amidi: "We invest a little money, then pray a lot"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Saeed Amidi, founder of Plug and Play, one of the world’s largest startup accelerators, to talk about how he invests in 150 companies each…
00:39:31 |
Sat 16 Sep 2017
Uber's Frances Frei: "Culture can kill a company, full stop"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Uber’s new head of leadership and renowned company doctor Frances Frei to talk about what she found when she walked into Uber (2:30), its …
00:38:10 |
Sat 09 Sep 2017
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Make Data Great Again"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and one of the world’s richest men, to talk about retiring with a $33bn fortune (1:55), launching his …
00:33:32 |
Sat 02 Sep 2017
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