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
Wired’s Steve Levy on Meta and What3words’ founder Chris Sheldrick on mapping the world
Starling's Anne Boden: "The banks have lost their confidence"
Arrival's Avinash Rugoobur: "No one has ever made vehicles this way"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Avinash Rugoobur, president of Arrival, to talk about the challenge of creating an electric vehicle company from scratch (3:30), micro-fac…
Miss Excel's Kat Norton: "How I made millions doing Tiktok videos - about Microsoft Excel”
Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vivas Kumar, founder of Mitra Chem, to talk about batteries (4:00), starting out at Tesla (8:10), launching his company (9:50), the race f…
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid and James Currier of NFX on Musk’s Twitter takeover and the state of social media
Spring Free EV's Sunil Paul: "I've been trying to give away this idea for 10 years"
Second Life's Philip Rosedale: "Metaverse millionaires"
Bimble’s Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby: “We launched a travel startup in Covid”
Kraken's Jesse Powell: "Currencies have a finite life"
Powerhouse's Emily Kirsch: “Investing in saving our species”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Emily Kirsch, founder of Powerhouse, to talk about starting the company in 2013 (2:50), launching a pilot venture capital fund (5:50), wor…
Aeromobil's Patrick Hessel: "This is a car that flies"
Cana's Matt Mahar: "The world's first beverage 'printer'"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Mahar, chief executive of Cana, to talk about the problem with the $2 trillion drinks company (5:55), the science of Cana (8:00), how…
Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stephen Hsu, co-founder of Genomic Prediction, to talk about the plummeting price of genomic sequencing (5:00), predicting height and canc…
Baroness Beeban Kidron: "A generational injustice"
Bessmer's David Cowan: A primer on quantum computing
Better Meat's Paul Shapiro: "Where's the beef? In the fermented mushroom roots"
Kernel's Bryan Johnson: "Measuring the mind and reengineering society"
Pivot Bio's Karsten Temme: "Microbial factories"