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
EVelozcity's Stefan Krause: "Skateboards, top hats and the future of the car"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stefan Krause, founder of $1bn electric car startup Evelozcity, to talk about why cars look like they do (5:40), why electric vehicles wil…
00:44:50 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Boris Sofman: "Engineering emotion"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Boris Sofman, founder of Anki, a maker of AI-powered toys, to talk about why he chose toys (2:45), convincing investors to back him (5:25)…
00:41:45 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Five Questions with... cyber-security expert Dan Woods
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Woods, cyber security expert at Shape Security, to answer five big question about hacking and online crime. 1. How likely is it that y…
00:32:50 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Beyond Meat's Ethan Brown: "Burger 2.0"
The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat, on why he got into “clean meat” (4:15), treating the problem like climate change (6:00), the four bu…
00:47:26 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
Sir Richard Branson: "Moon hotels"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sir Richard Branson to talk about how he chooses ideas (4:40), investing in Memphis Meats (7:00), bringing billionaires together on Necker…
00:47:12 |
Fri 25 May 2018
Jaron Lanier: "The bummer machine"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer, computer scientist, and author, to talk about being a “traitor” to Silicon Valley (3:40), the “bumm…
00:41:42 |
Fri 18 May 2018
PlateJoy’s Christina Bognet: “Healthy-eating algorithms”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Christina Bognet, founder for PlateJoy, to talk about changing how people eat (3:10), combating diabetes virtually (5:35), weighing in onl…
00:44:55 |
Fri 11 May 2018
SPECIAL: Inside the world of Esports
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a deep dive into the esports world, starting in Los Angeles, home of the new Overwatch League, (4:00). We examine how gaming could become a sp…
00:34:52 |
Fri 04 May 2018
TheBoardlist's Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: "Women are the new unicorns"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Suhkinder Singh Cassidy, founder of theBoardlist, to talk about the lack of women in tech (3:00), why that’s a problem (4:05), how scandal has created u…
00:38:19 |
Fri 27 Apr 2018
Five Questions with.... NYU's Scott Galloway
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent brings on Scott Galloway, NYU professor and author of The Four, to answer five big tech questions in 2018. 1. Is the (ad-based) Internet broken? (2:00), 2. Should…
00:20:37 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Vicarious founder Scott Phoenix: "Humanity's last invention"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Phoenix, founder of artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, to talk about the dawn of the robot age (4:30), the “last invention” …
00:38:27 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Bill Gates: "The report card of humanity"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Bill Gates to talk about being the world’s biggest philanthropist (3:00) eradicating malaria (1:40), saving Africa’s children (6:10), wipin…
00:43:38 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
Zipline's Keller Rinaudo: "Blood from the sky"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Keller Rinaudo, founder of drone developer Zipline, to talk about air-dropping blood in Rwanda (5:35), whether this can be used in the dev…
00:27:56 |
Fri 06 Apr 2018
Five questions with... Benedict Evans
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Benedict Evans, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to answer five big questions about tech: One, How long will it be before self-driving cars…
00:46:17 |
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Antonio Garcia Martinez, one of the architect’s of Facebook’s ad system, to talk about his days at the social media giant (2:15), what Cam…
00:29:57 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: “Building a crypto-Google”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on billionaire entrepreneur Joe Lubin, co-founder of cryptocurrency ethereum, to talk about his pre-crypto career (4:05), producing reggae in Jamaica (5:00…
00:30:18 |
Fri 23 Mar 2018
Groupon founder Andrew Mason: “I may not be Jeff Bezos or Jesus Christ, but I've done ok”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Groupon founder Andrew Mason to talk about his new company Descript, launching his first startup in Chicago in the late 1990’s (4:30), tur…
00:38:38 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Sophia Mahfooz: “It’s torture or an adventure, depending on your perspective’”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sophia Mahfooz, entrepreneur and former operations chief at Girls in Tech, on sharing a house with other Silicon Valley hopefuls (3:00), w…
00:50:18 |
Fri 09 Mar 2018
Stripe's Patrick Collison: "I'm petrified of getting too confident"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Collison, founder of $9bn payments startup Stripe to talk about building the financial plumbing of the Internet (2:45), why the we…
00:42:27 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
AirBnb's Brian Chesky: "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, to talk about the home-sharing giant’s tenth birthday (3:00) aiming for a billion guests (4:30), how he pl…
00:45:03 |
Fri 23 Feb 2018
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