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
GoCardless' Hiroki Takeuchi: "We thought about quitting once a week"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hiroki Takeuchi, founder of GoCardless, the payment processor and biggest fintech company you have never heard of, to talk about starting …
00:38:18 |
Fri 26 Apr 2019
Clara Foods' Arturo Elizondo: "Eggs - without the chicken"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Arturo Elizondo, the 27-year-old founder of Clara Foods, to talk about his plan to make eggs with the chicken (3:25), how eggs are produce…
00:34:23 |
Fri 19 Apr 2019
Arch Mission Foundation’s Nova Spivack: “Humanity's billion-year backup”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Nova Spivack, founder of the Arch Mission Foundation, to talk about the lunar library (3:10), how is started in 2015 (6:40), doing a test …
00:38:12 |
Fri 12 Apr 2019
UC Berkeley's Alison Gopnik: "Babies are the ultimate supercomputers"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Dr Alison Gopnik, a developmental psychologist, to talk about why babies could be the key to artificial intelligence (3:45), the limits to current syste…
00:44:29 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
Humu's Laszlo Bock: "Nudge, nudge"
Humu’s Laszlo Bock: “Nudges”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Laszlo Bock, founder of Humu, to talk about the fish that inspired him (3:00), coming to America as a refugee …
00:40:02 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Dr Phyllis Gardner, Stanford professor and Theranos critic: "I'll only really feel good if she's convicted"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Dr Phyllis Gardner, the Standord medical professor who came across Elizabeth Holmes before she started Theranos and then worked behind the scenes to exp…
00:41:35 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
Troy Carter: "There was no Plan B"
The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent brings on Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s former manager and music executive, to talk about the importance of radio (3:40), why streaming is still evolving (6:10), the …
01:05:19 |
Fri 15 Mar 2019
Jon Vlassopulos: "We're all nano-influencers"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Jon Vlassopulos to talk about the early days of digital music (3:30), investing in Napster (4:55), when ringtones were big business (10:20), getting int…
00:52:05 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
BeeFlow's Matias Viel: "Bionic Bees"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matias Viel, founder of Beeflow, to talk about why bees are a big deal (3:05), why they need him (4:50), the almond industry (7:20), the b…
00:40:54 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
Renee DiResta: "Information gone haywire"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Renee Diresta, expert in online propaganda, to talk about the 2016 election as the web’s Lehman Brothers moment (3:45), why Facebook got r…
00:57:08 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Patreon's Jack Conte: “People used to pay for things”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Jack Conte, founder of Patreon, to talk about busking as a business model (2:10), the web’s weird love triangle (4:40), sending $500m to creators this y…
00:43:38 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Academia.edu's Richard Price: "The end of the paywall"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Richard Price, founder of Academia.edu, yo talk about how academic publishing works today (4:00), doing to publishing what Napster did to …
00:51:27 |
Fri 08 Feb 2019
Uber's Mark Moore: "Don't call them flying cars"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mark Moore, head of engineering at Uber Elevate, to talk about flying cars (2:05), starting out at NASA (2:35), why air taxis are inevitab…
00:28:37 |
Fri 01 Feb 2019
Five questions with... Benedict Evans
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz to answer five big tech questions. 1. The smartphone era is over, now what? (1:50), 2. What is the s…
00:45:56 |
Fri 25 Jan 2019
Credit Karma's Nichole Mustard: "Self-driving finance"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Nichole Mustard, co-founder of fintech unicorn Credit Karma, to talk about credit scores as a means to an end (2:20), the evolution of the credit score …
00:45:43 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "Your very own robot lawyer”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Josh Browder, the 22-year-old founder of robot lawyer Donotpay, to talk about the end of the legal profession as we know it (2:25), getting…
00:39:29 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: "Stupidity or genius"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Michael Seibel, chief executive of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup bootcamp, to talk about why chaotic markets are good for startups (3…
00:52:47 |
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Pioneer's Daniel Gross: “Everything big starts small”
The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, to talk about growing up as an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem (2:40), applying to Y Combinator (3:40), escap…
00:49:09 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pat Romano, chief executive of Chargepoint, the world’s largest electric car charging company, to talk about the rise of the electric car …
00:45:29 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Five Questions with... Tim Draper
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Draper, co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to answer five big questions. Question 1: Why does he hold $140m in bitcoin? (3:05), Qu…
00:50:14 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
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