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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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Precision Neuroscience's Ben Rapoport:

Precision Neuroscience's Ben Rapoport: "Write an email with your thoughts"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Rapoport to talk about his plan it implant his first brain-computer interface in a human this year (5:00), his background in neurosurg…
00:48:36  |   Fri 14 Apr 2023
Fixie.ai's Matt Welsh:

Fixie.ai's Matt Welsh: "The 12-cent engineer"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Welsh, founder of Fixie.ai, to talk about how artificial intelligence will replace human programmers (3:25), its growing capabilities…
00:55:28  |   Fri 07 Apr 2023
Interlude: Back next week

Interlude: Back next week

Danny in the Valley will back next week. Jury duty forced me to cancel all meetings and pods this week!

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00:01:29  |   Fri 31 Mar 2023
Rippling’s Parker Conrad: “We raised $500m in one day to survive the SVB collapse”

Rippling’s Parker Conrad: “We raised $500m in one day to survive the SVB collapse”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Parker Conrad, founder and chief executive of Rippling, to talk about getting caught in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (3:30), receiving a call at …
00:50:55  |   Fri 24 Mar 2023
Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”

Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson things on Sean Gourley, founder of Primer AI, to talk about how he got into the industry (3:45), and then getting into counterintelligence (6:40), t…
00:51:59  |   Fri 17 Mar 2023
Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”

Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Harries to talk about his previous cremation startup (3:20), how he got into human composting (5:00), the problems with burial and cre…
00:42:25  |   Fri 10 Mar 2023
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”

UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stuart Russell, professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI), to talk about working in …

00:58:05  |   Fri 03 Mar 2023
Character.ai's Noam Shazeer:

Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.ai, to talk about his work at Google (4:00), joining the search giant in 2000 (6:50), what is deep lear…
00:39:37  |   Fri 24 Feb 2023
Forum Mobility’s Matt LeDucq: “Electrifying trucking”

Forum Mobility’s Matt LeDucq: “Electrifying trucking”


The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt LeDucq, founder of Forum Mobility, to talk about drayage (4:25), its health impacts (6:20), starting out in renewable energy twenty ye…

00:44:09  |   Fri 17 Feb 2023
Giant's Cameron McLain:

Giant's Cameron McLain: "Buddhism, music and venture capital"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cameron McLain, co-founder of Giant, to talk about why he chose the name (3:05), what he did before starting a venture fund (7:00), moving…
00:45:58  |   Fri 10 Feb 2023
Now's Lara Hodgson:

Now's Lara Hodgson: "Don't follow your passion"

The Sunday Times’ correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Lara Hodgson, founder of NOW, to talk about her previous companies (3:15), how a payment problem led to the launch of Now (8:55), meeting US po…
00:44:50  |   Fri 03 Feb 2023
Mammoth’s Trevor Martin: “Programming the code of life”

Mammoth’s Trevor Martin: “Programming the code of life”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Trevor Martin of Mammoth Biosciences, to talk about “programming biology” (4:10), the slow grind of innovation (7:25), CRISPR (10:20), the…
00:49:01  |   Fri 27 Jan 2023
Formic’s Saman Farid: “A robot arm can do the work of eight humans”

Formic’s Saman Farid: “A robot arm can do the work of eight humans”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Saman Farid, founder of Formic, to tlak about why we need more robots (3:40), the labour shortage (7:20), the growing universe of jobs tha…
00:44:27  |   Fri 20 Jan 2023
TrueMed’s Calley Means: “Sugar, kids, and the crime of the century”

TrueMed’s Calley Means: “Sugar, kids, and the crime of the century”

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Callery Means, founder of TrueMed, to talk about his early days in politics (4:20), how the food industry avoided sugar taxes (7:45), the l…
00:51:38  |   Fri 13 Jan 2023
Frore's Seshu Madhavapeddy:

Frore's Seshu Madhavapeddy: "Centuries-old tech and the tyranny of heat"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Seshu Madhavapeddy co-founder and chief executive of Frore Systems, to talk about why our devices underperform and we don;t know it (4:20)…
00:48:28  |   Fri 06 Jan 2023
Akili's Eddie Martucci:

Akili's Eddie Martucci: "The world's first prescription video game"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eddie Martucci, co-founder and chief executive of Akili Interactive, to talk about making the first prescription video game (3:40), the or…
00:51:04  |   Fri 16 Dec 2022
Benedict Evans: “What Chat GPT is - and isn’t”

Benedict Evans: “What Chat GPT is - and isn’t”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem…
00:47:13  |   Fri 09 Dec 2022
Kernel's Bryan Johnson: “Dinner at 11:00 am and reversing age”

Kernel's Bryan Johnson: “Dinner at 11:00 am and reversing age”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Bryan Johnson, tech entrepreneur and Kernel founder, to talk about reversing his biological age with “the blueprint” (4:50), eating dinner at 11:00 am (…

01:02:44  |   Fri 02 Dec 2022
SciFi Foods' Joshua March:

SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Brewing a $1 lab-grown burger”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Joshua March, founder of SciFi Foods to talk about why he is trying to brew burgers (3:30), mixing meat and plants (6:00), the cost challe…
00:44:04  |   Fri 25 Nov 2022
Neoplants' Lio Mora & Partick Torbey:

Neoplants' Lio Mora & Partick Torbey: "A houseplant that eats carcinogens"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Torbey and Lio Mora about engineering plants (3:45), the age of biology (6:15), their $180 houseplant (11:25), indoor pollution (1…
00:51:55  |   Fri 18 Nov 2022
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