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
Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo: “Teleporting medicines”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Keller Rinaudo, founder of Zipline, to talk about using drones to deliver medical supplies (3:25), dropping blood from the sky (6:10), the…
00:26:56 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
NYU's Paul Romer: “Killing people or killing the economy”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Paul Romer, Nobel Prize-winning economist, to talk about making our way out of the coronavirus crisis (2:15), the two key investments (5:3…
00:35:08 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Fifty Years‘ Seth Bannon: “When a bear chases you into a tree, how do you get down?"
The Sunday Times’ tech corespondent brings on Seth Bannon, co-founder venture capital firm Fifty Years, to talk about fighting the coronavirus (3:25), the coming destruction of Silicon Valley’s start…
00:25:11 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Coronavirus Special: Dr John Ioannidis: "Minimal evidence, monumental decisions"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dr John Ioannadis to talk about why the coronavirus response could be an “evidence fiasco" (0:00), the China model (3:20), the importance …
00:44:25 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Stephen Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story, to talk about the moment he decided to write the book (3:30), the first time he met Zuck (8:10), the…
00:56:48 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
Beeflow's Matias Viel: "Building better bees"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson travels to an almond orchard in central California to talk to Matias Viel, founder of Beeflow, to talk about bees (4:00), creating an insect superfoo…
00:44:03 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
Stanford’s Matthew Jackson: “You’re not as popular as you think”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matthew Jackson, Stanford professor and author of The Human Network, about why you live matters (2:20), the universal basic income illusio…
00:48:11 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Expensify's David Barrett: “Any good idea has to sound bad”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on David Barrett, founder of Expensify, to talk about competing for talent with unicorns (2:00), the odd reason for the company’s founding (5…
00:56:19 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
Shorter's Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: "Arguing for the four-day work week”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Shorter, to talk about why we work 40 hours per week (2:30), why he wrote the book (4:50), why working le…
00:47:28 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Virgin Galactic’s George Whitesides: “Democratising space”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic, to talk about the new space race (3:00), doing more with less (4:15), rethinking sp…
00:29:08 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Zeus Living's Kulveer Taggar: "The Greek god of corporate housing"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Kulveer Taggar, founder of Zeus Living, to talk about the Greek god of corporate housing (3:00), growing up in London (5:15), getting into…
00:49:12 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon: “Passing the Mr. Burns test”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Seth Bannon, founder of venture capital firm Fifty Years, to talk about targeting the truly big problems (1:00), why it took 18 months to r…
00:45:29 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
Caliva's Dennis O'Malley: "We're simple farmers - of cannabis"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dennis O’Malley, head of cannabis startup Caliva, to go from the buttoned-up corporate world to the weed industry (2:45), the ‘green rush’…
00:57:39 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
Socos Labs' Vivienne Ming: “I want to build better people”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vivienne Ming, founder of Socos Labs, to talk about ethics in artificial intelligence (2:25), passing on a job at Amazon (7:55), why its h…
01:17:29 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Atari’s Al Alcorn: “The dog who caught the car”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Al Alcorn, video game pioneer and co-founder of Atari, to talk about when he first met co-founder Nolan Bushnell (2:30), breaking into a w…
01:08:46 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Tulip's Tom Harries: "Ashes to airmail"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Harries, founder of Tulip, to talk about disrupting the cremation industry (0:30), starting with an obituary app (2:20), selling it an…
00:46:34 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Openwater's Mary Lou Jepson: "Telepathy is inevitable"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mary Lou Jepsen, founder of Openwater, to talk about how her near-death experience (3:05), and how it inspired her to start Openwater (5:5…
00:58:51 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Pinscreen's Hao Li: "Deepfakes have been democratised
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hao Li, the world’s top deepfake artist and founder of Pinscreen, to talk about the role of the Fast and Furious in the rise of deepfakes …
00:33:47 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
Square Roots' Kimbal Musk: “Working in tech was like chewing sawdust”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk and found of Square Roots, to talk about going to culinary school after selling his first company with El…
00:47:40 |
Fri 29 Nov 2019
Lily.ai’s Purva Gupta: “Why do these shorts make me sad?”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Purva Gupta, founder of Lily.ai, to talk about algorithms of emotion (5:40), creating psychographic profiles of shoppers (7:45), drawing o…
00:52:57 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
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