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The Times Tech Podcast

 Will Morley

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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Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: “Replumbing the financial system”

Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: “Replumbing the financial system”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brad Garlinghouse, to talk about remaking the global financial system (2:45), when it could happen (5:30), the cross-border payment challe…
00:37:21  |   Fri 27 Nov 2020
Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”

Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Renee DiResta of the Stanford INternet Observatory to talk about how Twitter handled 2020 (3:30), mainstream media getting a pass (40), Facebook groups …

00:45:19  |   Fri 20 Nov 2020
Plenty's Nate Storey:

Plenty's Nate Storey: "Kale outta Compton"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Nate Storey, co-founder of indoor farming unicorn Plenty, to talk about tearing down and rebuilding farms (3:40), the problem he’s trying to solve (6:40…
00:49:48  |   Fri 13 Nov 2020
Ruben Harris:

Ruben Harris: "A backwards version of the Wu-Tang clan”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ruben Harris, co-founder of Career Karma, to talk about starting out as a cellist (3:10), why music convinced him to get into business (6:…
00:39:28  |   Fri 06 Nov 2020
Mmhmm's Phil Libin:

Mmhmm's Phil Libin: "Hospital clowns to investment bankers”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Phil Libin, founder of Mmhmm, to talk about fasting (3:35), starting the company (5:00), what it does (9:15), the end of the social media …
00:52:58  |   Fri 30 Oct 2020
Avalanche Insights' Michiah Prull: “Measuring oomph”

Avalanche Insights' Michiah Prull: “Measuring oomph”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Michiah Prull, founder of Avalanche Insights, to talk about setting up a company after the 2016 election (3:00), starting as a community o…
00:41:34  |   Fri 23 Oct 2020
Parler's John Matze:

Parler's John Matze: "Hate speech is free speech"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on John Matze, founder of Parler, to talk about starting a social network (4:10), its first viral moment (7:05), reacting to the banning of people online (…
00:48:14  |   Fri 16 Oct 2020
Standard Cognition's Jordan Fisher:

Standard Cognition's Jordan Fisher: "Cashierless stores are coming"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jordan Fisher, founder of Standard Cognition, to talk about creating a video game (5:00), being rejected from venture capitalists (7:20), …

00:51:39  |   Fri 09 Oct 2020
Higher Ground Labs' Shomik Dutta:

Higher Ground Labs' Shomik Dutta: "Nothing clarifies the mind like losing”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Shomik Dutta, founder of Higher Ground Labs, to talk about funding democracy tech (3:30), what happened after 2016 (5:30), losing the tech…
00:40:24  |   Fri 02 Oct 2020
NYU's Paul Romer:

NYU's Paul Romer: "An evil decision"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Paul Romer, the Nobel prize-winning economist, to talk about the choice between killing people and killing the economy (3:00), the policy …
00:42:30  |   Fri 25 Sep 2020
DoNotPay’s Josh Browder: “A bot to build bots”

DoNotPay’s Josh Browder: “A bot to build bots”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Josh Browder to talk about building a robot lawyer DoNotPay (3:40), raising money (7:10), overturning parking tickets (10:10), targeting p…
00:34:17  |   Fri 18 Sep 2020
Bollinger Motors’ Robert Bollinger “I've spent tens of millions on a childhood dream”

Bollinger Motors’ Robert Bollinger “I've spent tens of millions on a childhood dream”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Robert Bollinger to talk about hiss previous career selling shampoo (4:25), moving to Detroit (7:05), why he wanted to founded an electric car company (…
00:43:40  |   Fri 11 Sep 2020
Paypal's Dan Schulman: “The best way to win a fight is to avoid one”

Paypal's Dan Schulman: “The best way to win a fight is to avoid one”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Schulman, chief executive of Paypal, to talk about how the smartphone has changed everything (3:10), the evolution of Paypal (6:00), s…
00:32:28  |   Fri 04 Sep 2020
Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”

Color of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Arisha Hatch, head of campaigns at Color of Change, to talk about organising the Facebook ad boycott (5:00), why she chose to focus on the…
00:39:13  |   Fri 28 Aug 2020
Blendjet’s Ryan Pamplin: “I’ll never sell out again”

Blendjet’s Ryan Pamplin: “I’ll never sell out again”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Ryan Pamplin, founder of Blendjet, to talk about living the Silicon Valley dream (2:45), suffering a traumatic brain injury (6:00), post-concussive synd…
01:03:06  |   Fri 21 Aug 2020
Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave: “Throwing virtual tomatoes”

Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave: “Throwing virtual tomatoes”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Paddy Cosgrave, founder of Web Summit, to talk about the big virtual conference experiment (3:00), random online meetings (6:00), why 24 h…
00:37:30  |   Fri 14 Aug 2020
Bonus Episode; Stories of our times - Tik Tok and the data war

Bonus Episode; Stories of our times - Tik Tok and the data war

A special extra episode for you from the daily podcast from The Times;


President Trump has ordered firms to stop doing business with social media giant TikTok over security concerns. Microsoft was the…

00:29:26  |   Tue 11 Aug 2020
Flexport's Ryan Petersen:

Flexport's Ryan Petersen: "Plan for the unimaginable"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, to talk about being a canary in the coalmine (3:00), where the economy is recovering (5:00), what happ…
00:40:44  |   Fri 07 Aug 2020
DuckDuckGo's Gabriel Weinberg:

DuckDuckGo's Gabriel Weinberg: "Google's privacy washing"

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, to talk about the early days of starting the search engine (3:30), the erosion of Google’s results…
00:40:51  |   Fri 31 Jul 2020
Tradeshift's Christian Lanng: “Covid-19 has created a generation of zombie companies”

Tradeshift's Christian Lanng: “Covid-19 has created a generation of zombie companies”

The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Christian Lanng, founder of Tradeshift, to talk about relocating to Alaska (3:30), remote working (6:30), creating Tradeshift (9:30), becoming a unicorn …
00:45:58  |   Fri 24 Jul 2020
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