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
Marc Andreessen: "Darwin has kicked in"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marc Andreessen, founder of Internet pioneer Netscape and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about the early days of the In…
00:47:00 |
Sat 26 Aug 2017
SPECIAL: inside Silicon Valley's quest to defeat ageing
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson talks to the scientists and executives pledging to redefine life as we know it about why we may be finally on the cusp of an age revolution (2:00), …
00:44:21 |
Sat 19 Aug 2017
Boxed.com's Chieh Huang: “1999 called, they want their business model back”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Chieh Huang, founder of Boxed.com, to talk about setting up the “Costco for millennials” in a two-car garage (1:30), why Brexit and small houses make co…
00:41:27 |
Sat 12 Aug 2017
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: "You just bankrupted the company."
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, the video doorbell company, to talk about about getting rejected on national television (2:00), turning f…
00:43:07 |
Sat 05 Aug 2017
Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Oren Jacob, former CTO of film studio Pixar and founder of computer conversation startup Pullstring to talk about the new age of voice tec…
00:52:32 |
Sat 29 Jul 2017
Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace, the popular meditation app, to talk about how it started in London nine years ago (6:30), meeting h…
00:36:43 |
Sat 22 Jul 2017
Evernote founder Phil Libin: “I sold my first company for $500”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Phil Libin, founder of Evernote, one of the first companies to be labelled a “unicorn”, to talk about his plan to create the Netflix of art…
00:37:33 |
Sun 16 Jul 2017
Planet CEO Will Marshall: "We swept the leaves out of the garage and started building satellites"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Will Marshall, founder of Planet, a billion-dollar startup that operates the world’s largest constellation of satellites, to talk about ta…
00:33:04 |
Sat 08 Jul 2017
True Ventures' Jon Callaghan: 'You've got to fail with class'
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jon Callaghan, founder of True Ventures, on investing in things before there is a market (3:15), finding Fitbit (6:00), backing big ideas (…
00:44:44 |
Sat 01 Jul 2017
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"
The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dollar startup, getting rejected 42 times by venture…
00:36:55 |
Sat 24 Jun 2017
Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Silicon Valley power couple and investors Mitch and Freda Kapor to talk about publicly challenging Uber, on Freada's pioneering work on wo…
00:34:21 |
Sat 17 Jun 2017
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, the wildly popular business messaging platform, on founding photo sharing company Flickr (2:30…
00:35:22 |
Sat 10 Jun 2017
Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to talk about traveling at airline speeds over land, why the idea ha…
00:57:28 |
Sat 03 Jun 2017
Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Pamplin of Meta, developer of augmented reality glasses, to talk about the next paradigm in computing and why it won't be the another …
00:49:40 |
Sat 27 May 2017
Jason Calacanis: "A cacophony of idiots"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent brings on Jason Calacanis, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific "angel" investors, to talk about being one of the first investors in Uber (3:00), being the Cesc …
00:43:53 |
Sat 20 May 2017
Comet Labs' Saman Farid: "Let's be friends with the robots"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Saman Farid, a investor who specialises in all things robotic to talk about how artificial intelligence is making machines smart (6:00), robots that pick…
00:44:12 |
Fri 12 May 2017
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