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
Gitlab’s Sid Sidbrandij: “Meetings are expensive”
Cade Metz: “The human didn’t have a chance”
Larva Labs’ Matt Hall: “Creating cryptopunks"
Terraformation’s Yishan Wong: “Forest as a service”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Yishan Wong, founder of Terraformation, to talk about his plan to plant a trillion trees (3:30), his days running Reddit (8:10), on whethe…
Alchemy's Nikil Viswanathan: "NFTs are the future"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Nikil Viswanathan, co-founder of Alchemy, to talk about the boom in non-fungible tokens (NFT’s) (3:00), his first app (7:50), what Alchemy does (10:10),…
Tim O'Reilly: "Silicon Valley: turning idealists into monopolists"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Tim O’Reilly to talk about the end of Silicon Valley as we know it (3:30), how the markets were designed to give us monopolies (6:30), his history in te…
Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "We just had to wait it out"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pat Romano, chief executive of Chargepoint, to talk about taking a company public in a pandemic (4:20), the electric car revolution (7:30)…
Timnit Gebru: "Google's ethical AI fig leaves"
Zeus Living’s Kulveer Taggar: “It was all unravelling before my eyes”
Nurx’s Varsha Rao: “The simplest things were incredibly hard”
Varda’s Delian Asparouhov: “The space gold rush”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Delian Asparouhov, founder of Varda Industries, to talk about manufacturing in space (3:00), the collapse in launch costs (6:45), SpaceX’s Starship (8:5…
Jason Calacanis: Silicon Valley v the media
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jason Calacanis, to talk about the de-platfroming of Trump (4:45), the revelation that is Trump-less Twitter (9:15), Silicon Valley v the …
Shift4's Jared Isaacman: "Commanding the first civilian mission to space"
Cover’s Alexis Rivas: “Lego houses”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Alexis Rivas of Cover to talk about rebuilding home-building (3:45), starting small (7:40), using software to automate the process (9:00), the original …
Economist Eli Dourado: "City lights on the moon and living past 130"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Eric Goldman, law professor at Santa Clara University, to talk about what tech regulation will look like under Joe Biden (4:00), Congressional gridlock …
Neeva's Sridhar Ramaswamy: "We can do better than Google"
Investing in US's Dmitri Mehlhorn: “The business of making Trump a one-term president”
Substack's Chris Best: "We knew we were walking into a firestorm”
Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"