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
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capabili…
00:33:45 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!
Happy July 4th! Running back one of our favorite episodes from last summer - Fred Lalonde of Deep Sky, who speaks eloquently about the need to bury every ton of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revol…
01:15:26 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
PagerDuty's Jennifer Tejada: "Going public is the wedding, staying public is the marriage"
When a website goes down, companies lose an average of $500,000 per minute. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jennifer Tejada, chief executive of PagerDuty, a company found…
00:33:45 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”
The world is aflutter with talk of "AI doctors". A UK company has actually built one. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dr Ross Harper, co founder and chief executive of Li…
00:46:53 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"
The climate fight is going far better than you realise. So says this week’s guest, Tom Steyer, former presidential candidate and founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions. He comes on to talk with Sunda…
00:55:21 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"
Do you want to talk to your whales? Monkeys? Your dog? AI will make it possible. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter Diamandis to talk about why he set up an $111m long…
00:59:21 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
Renaissance's Tom Kalil: "Transforming philanthropy"
There are about 1,200 billionaires in Europe and America. Why don't they do more good with their money? This week's guest reckons he can get them to do just that. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent…
00:44:33 |
Fri 31 May 2024
Tortus' Dom Pimenta: "AI is the answer to NHS doctor burnout"
AI will save the NHS - but not the wya you think. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dom Pimenta, a cardiologist and co-founder of Tortus, to talk about the potential of its…
00:49:17 |
Fri 24 May 2024
Gigascale's Mike Schroepfer: "From building Meta to investing in climate"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on MIke Schroepfer, Meta’s former CTO, to talk about why he left Meta (3:00), growing up working his parents’ radio station (9:00), going to …
00:57:54 |
Fri 17 May 2024
Openwater’s Mary Lou Jepsen: “We'll save your mind - then read it”
Imagine if you shrunk all of the machines in a hospital and crammed them into a single device the size of an iPhone that could diagnose and treat hundreds of diseases. That is what this week’s guest …
01:04:21 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”
Would you watch an Olympics where everyone was doping? The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aron D’Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, to talk about launchi…
00:43:59 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Rainmaker's Augustus Doricko: "Cloud seeding is a risk worth taking"
The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Augustus Doricko to talk about becoming a Thiel fellow (3:15), looking for the proof of God (5:45), starting his first company (9:30) clo…
00:41:47 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "We need laws to protect AI's"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on DoNotPay's Josh Browder to talk about how artificial intelligence is changing his business (4:20), paying a dividend (8:15), blowing up th…
00:31:01 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Arbol's Sid Jha: "Insurance in the era of climate calamities"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sid Jha of Arbol to talk about the importance of insurance (3:45), using data to change how it works (8:20), how climate has scrambled th…
00:47:40 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Orchid's Noor Siddiqui: "Super-babies"
The Sunday Times correspondent brings on Noor Siddiquui, founder of Orchid, to talk about screening embryos (5:00), starting the company (9:30), hiring people as a first time founder (13:00), targeti…
00:56:14 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda: “Your AI soulmate”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eugenia Kyuda, founder of Replika, to talk about AI friends (4:00), growing up in Russia (6:45), her dad’s experience at Chernobyl (9:00),…
00:43:55 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Perplexity.ai’s Dmitry Shevelenko: “The battle for the front page of the Internet”
The Sunday Times; tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dmitry Shevelenko of Perplexity.ai, to talk about finding the company though the Uber mafia (5:00), taking on Google (6:30), the founders'…
00:43:05 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Eion's Ana Pavlovic Hans: “Rocks that clean up the planet”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ana Pavlovic Hans to talk about using rocks to cut carbon (3:00), coming up with the best “recipe” (8:00), the measurement breakthrough (1…
00:44:01 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon: "Back to the future of the Internet"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about writing a book on blockchain and crypto (4:00), why it’s still early (9…
00:50:45 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Pachama's Diego Saez Gil: "Building software to save nature"
The Sunday Times; tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Diego Saez GIl, founder of Pachama, to talk about carbon reduction (4:00), hist first startups (6:10), Pachama’s start (12:00), building t…
00:38:34 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
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