The Times Tech Podcast
Episodes
SPECIAL: Inside the world of Esports
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a deep dive into the esports world, starting in Los Angeles, home of the new Overwatch Leag...
TheBoardlist's Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: "Women are the new unicorns"
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Five Questions with.... NYU's Scott Galloway
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Vicarious founder Scott Phoenix: "Humanity's last invention"
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Phoenix, founder of artificial intelligence startup Vicarious, to talk about the ...
Bill Gates: "The report card of humanity"
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Bill Gates to talk about being the world’s biggest philanthropist (3:00) eradicating mal...
Zipline's Keller Rinaudo: "Blood from the sky"
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Keller Rinaudo, founder of drone developer Zipline, to talk about air-dropping blood in...
Five questions with... Benedict Evans
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Benedict Evans, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to answer five big questions about tech...
Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Antonio Garcia Martinez, one of the architect’s of Facebook’s ad system, to talk ab...
Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: “Building a crypto-Google”
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on billionaire entrepreneur Joe Lubin, co-founder of cryptocurrency ethereum, to talk about his pre-cryp...
Groupon founder Andrew Mason: “I may not be Jeff Bezos or Jesus Christ, but I've done ok”
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Groupon founder Andrew Mason to talk about his new company Descript, launching his firs...
Sophia Mahfooz: “It’s torture or an adventure, depending on your perspective’”
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sophia Mahfooz, entrepreneur and former operations chief at Girls in Tech, on sharing a...
Stripe's Patrick Collison: "I'm petrified of getting too confident"
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Collison, founder of $9bn payments startup Stripe to talk about building the fi...
AirBnb's Brian Chesky: "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, to talk about the home-sharing giant’s tenth birthday (...
SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Sens Research Foundation, to talk the possibility of tur...
Hooked’s Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia: “We went from zero to 40 million users"
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia to talk about remaking reading for millennials (4:00), o...
Finless Foods’ Mike Selden: “We brew fish meat”
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mike Selden, founder of Finless Foods, to talk about growing fish flesh without the fis...
Tim O'Reilly: "It's our brains that are being hacked"
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim O’Reilly, oracle of the tech industry, to talk about why 2017 may go down as a water...
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, to talk about his plan to save the news industry wit...
ROBOTS SPECIAL: Inside the rise of the machines
09 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson takes a deep dive into the world of robots to chart the the beginnings of the machine age (2:30),...
Trulia founder Pete Flint: “Either the world was ending, or we had an opportunity”
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pete Flint, founder of Trulia and partner at NFX, to talk about his plans to remake the ve...
Comma.ai's George Hotz: "Computers don't get drunk"
25 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai to talk about how he plans to "win" the race to develop ...
Baroness Beeban Kidron: "Kids are more than clickbait"
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Baroness Beeban Kidron talk about her crusade against Big Tech, “age appropriate” d...
Tanium’s Orion Hindawi: “This is a snake-oil industry”
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Orion Hindawi, cyber-security billionaire and founder of Tanium, to talk about how the world is wakin...
Martha Lane Fox: “A Geneva Convention for the web”
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Martha Lane Fox, dotcom pioneer and Twitter board member, to talk about the tech indust...
NYU's Scott Galloway: "Being an innovator doesn't make you Jesus"
28 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Scott Galloway of NYU's Stern School of Business and author of The Four, to talk about ho...
SPECIAL: inside the cryptocurrency craze
21 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson talks to cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and investors about the boom in initial coin offerings, or IC...
Scribd’s Trip Adler: “In the future, we won’t buy or own anything.”
14 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Trip Adler, founder of Scribd, to talk about creating the “Netflix of reading” (2:0...
Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew: “People aren’t sneaking out of class to sext”
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, the first investor in Snapchat, to talk abo...
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: “You’re selling attention”
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ev Williams, chief executive of online publisher Medium and Twitter co-founder, to talk...
Plenty's Matt Barnard: "You’re eating year-old apples”
23 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt Barnard, co-founder of indoor-farming startup Plenty, to talk about building a ‘...
Plug and Play's Saeed Amidi: "We invest a little money, then pray a lot"
16 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Saeed Amidi, founder of Plug and Play, one of the world’s largest startup accelerator...
Uber's Frances Frei: "Culture can kill a company, full stop"
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Uber’s new head of leadership and renowned company doctor Frances Frei to talk about ...
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Make Data Great Again"
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and one of the world’s richest men, to talk about...
Marc Andreessen: "Darwin has kicked in"
26 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marc Andreessen, founder of Internet pioneer Netscape and venture capital firm Andreess...
SPECIAL: inside Silicon Valley's quest to defeat ageing
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson talks to the scientists and executives pledging to redefine life as we know it about why we may be ...
Boxed.com's Chieh Huang: “1999 called, they want their business model back”
12 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Chieh Huang, founder of Boxed.com, to talk about setting up the “Costco for millennials” in a two...
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: "You just bankrupted the company."
05 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, the video doorbell company, to talk about about gettin...
Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”
29 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Oren Jacob, former CTO of film studio Pixar and founder of computer conversation startu...
Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”
22 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace, the popular meditation app, to talk about how it...
Evernote founder Phil Libin: “I sold my first company for $500”
16 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Phil Libin, founder of Evernote, one of the first companies to be labelled a “unicorn”...
Planet CEO Will Marshall: "We swept the leaves out of the garage and started building satellites"
08 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Will Marshall, founder of Planet, a billion-dollar startup that operates the world’s ...
True Ventures' Jon Callaghan: 'You've got to fail with class'
01 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jon Callaghan, founder of True Ventures, on investing in things before there is a market (...
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"
24 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dol...
Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"
17 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Silicon Valley power couple and investors Mitch and Freda Kapor to talk about publicly ch...
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'
10 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, the wildly popular business messaging platfor...
Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”
03 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to talk about trave...
Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"
27 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Pamplin of Meta, developer of augmented reality glasses, to talk about the next parad...
Jason Calacanis: "A cacophony of idiots"
20 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent brings on Jason Calacanis, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific "angel" investors, to talk about being one of th...
Comet Labs' Saman Farid: "Let's be friends with the robots"
12 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Saman Farid, a investor who specialises in all things robotic to talk about how artificial intelligence ...