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The Future of Energy Resilience: How Pila Is Making Backup Power Accessible to Everyone with Cole Ashman
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhat happens when the lights go out? For most of us, it’s just an inconvenience. But for millions of households and small businesses, out...
The Sound of Safety: How Voice AI Can Save Lives at Work
11 Aug 2025
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Send a textWhen Fatigue Becomes Fatal: Voice AI and the Future of Worker SafetyFatigue isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a $400 billion problem. ...
How AI is Redefining Legal Workflows with Bryan Lee, Co-Founder of Ruli AI
09 Dec 2024
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Send a textToday, more than ever, industries are turning to tech to address inefficiencies that plague day-to-day operations. The legal industry, ofte...
Storytelling That Sells: How to Build a Product Everyone Wants to Share - with Selim Benayat, Bento
09 Sep 2024
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Send a textIn this episode of Things Have Changed Podcast, we sit down with Sélim Benayat, co-founder of Bento and now Director of Product at Linktre...
Unveiling AI's Role in Content Creation with Originality AI's John Gillham
05 Aug 2024
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Send a textHave you ever stumbled upon an article or a piece of content online and wondered, "Did someone actually write this, or is it the work ...
How Cling Systems is Transforming Battery Supply Chains with William Bergh
24 Jun 2024
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Send a textRevolutionizing Battery Recycling: The Future of Sustainable Energy ManagementAs the world embraces the electric vehicle (EV) revolution, w...
How Companies Can Supercharge Their Brand Visibility with Sneha Saigal's Geeks&Experts
10 Jun 2024
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Send a textThe Power of PR: Navigating Today’s Media Landscape with Sneha SaigalIn our hyper-connected world, the stakes for corporate reputation ar...
Is Prompting The New Programming? with Filip Kozera and Robert Chandler, Wordware AI
20 May 2024
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Send a textBringing Coding to the Masses with AI.Can programming become accessible to all? This week on Things Have Changed podcast we have Filip C. K...
How Brevdev Is Making AI Development Accessible and Simple for Everyone with Nader Kahlil
22 Apr 2024
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Send a textWhen ChatGPT was launched in December 2022, few could have predicted the rapid transformation the world would undergo in the following mont...
How Swyft Cities Is Revolutionizing Urban Mobility with Jeral Poskey
08 Apr 2024
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Send a textTech companies today are building bigger and bigger campuses. Think about Google's sprawling complex in Mountain View, Facebook's...
How Starlink Is Rewriting Connectivity and Its Global Implications
25 Mar 2024
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Send a textPicture this: You're kicking back, watching one of those jaw-dropping SpaceX rockets launch into the cosmos, carrying astronauts or to...
How Stellar Is Perfecting the Internet while on the Go with Damien Garot & Hassan Aouisse
12 Feb 2024
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Send a textWe've all been there: mid-conversation or deep into a work session, only for our digital lifeline to suddenly drop, leaving us strande...
From Uganda to Mexico: Asaak's Inspiring Journey Unveiled with Dylan Terrill
05 Feb 2024
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Send a textEver wondered how startups grow by buying other companies? Today on Things Have Changed, we're delighted to host returning guest, Dy...
Drones, Data, and Dollars: Anduril's Disruptive Play in the Defense Industry
29 Jan 2024
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Send a textPalmer Luckey, once synonymous with the virtual reality revolution through the Oculus Rift, catapulted into tech stardom when Facebook acqu...
Why Tech Is Going After the Next Trillion Dollar Opportunity - Defense
22 Jan 2024
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Send a textIn the past two decades, technology has dramatically reshaped numerous industries, from newspapers to travel agencies. Once thriving sector...
How Bikes Are at the Forefront of Future Urban Mobility with Mikko Ampuja, Vapaus
15 Jan 2024
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Send a textE-bike sales outpaced EVs and hybrid cars in both 2021 and 2022. In fact, research shows that by 2030, E-Bike sales are expected to 3x, out...
Taste the Revolution: The Wild Foods' Impactful Journey with Patrick Hardy
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThere is an alarming trend taking place in South America : the steady rise in obesity rates. Despite all the ads and talk about eating heal...
How Dubai Emerged From the Desert to Become One of the World’s Leading Metropolises!
13 Nov 2023
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Send a textJoin us on a captivating journey to the heart of the Middle East as we unravel the extraordinary transformation of Dubai. In this episode, ...
Revolutionizing Nigeria: How Silicon Valley Dreams Are Transforming an Oil Giant
23 Oct 2023
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Send a textOver the past few weeks, we've delved deep into the stories of remarkable companies, visionary founders, and dynamic landscapes of eme...
GPS: The $100 Billion System That Transformed Aviation, Travel, and Exploration
09 Oct 2023
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Send a textTech Journey Time Capsule:From the nostalgic dial-up buzz to today's quick digital clicks, this section reflects on the monumental mom...
AI in Healthcare: Uncovering Future Breakthroughs with DeepMirror and Dr. Max Jakobs
02 Oct 2023
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Send a textImagine compressing a decade of research into mere weeks or turning a failure rate of 90% in clinical drug development on its head. That&ap...
Connecting Continents: Journey with the Pioneers of the Internet
25 Sep 2023
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Send a text🌐 Embark on a Digital Odyssey with “Things Have Changed”! 🌐Ever wondered how the maze of the internet came to be? Join us in our ...
Transforming the Job Landscape: Insight from Dr. Seth Benzel
18 Sep 2023
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Send a textAre you prepared for the future? What if we told you that philosophers will play a key role in it? We had a fascinating conversation with t...
How Vietnam Transformed into a Global Manufacturing Powerhouse
11 Sep 2023
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Send a textEver wondered how a nation transforms from a war-torn past to a thriving economic powerhouse? Vietnam's transformation has been nothi...
Behind Brazil's Booming Economy: Agriculture, Tech, and Trade
04 Sep 2023
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Send a textReady to embark on an enlightening journey exploring the economic evolution of Brazil? Strap in as we navigate through dramatic GDP growth,...
From East to West: How Mexico Is Forging the Next Chapter in Global Manufacturing
28 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn the past few decades, it's been like watching the world shrink right in front of us. Globalization has turned our planet into this ...
The Startup Game Changer: How Carta Is Powering Startups to Triumph - with Peter Walker
10 Jul 2023
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Send a textImagine navigating the often-complex world of equity management with ease. Picture illuminating the path to growth opportunities that you w...
Unraveling the Crash of the BNPL Revolution
12 Jun 2023
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Send a textOn our previous episode, we spoke about the Buy Now Pay Later industry and the players that rode the pandemic to all time highs! But what w...
From Credit Cards to BNPL: Inside the Trend Shaping the Future of Shopping
22 May 2023
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Send a textImagine this: you're browsing through an online store, eyeing that perfect item you've had your heart set on like the new iPhone ...
How JP Morgan Grew From America's Biggest Bank to Even Bigger
15 May 2023
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Send a textIn today's episode, we delve into the remarkable story of how JP Morgan Chase became the largest bank in the world. From its humble be...
Inside Apple's Financial Empire: From Apple Pay to the Apple Card and Beyond
01 May 2023
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Send a textIn episode 2 of the Company Spotlight series we explore the world of tech companies invading the finance industry, and specifically Apple, ...
How Microsoft for Startups Is Helping Companies Scale - with Lahini Arunachalam
24 Apr 2023
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Send a textStarting and scaling a successful startup has never been easy, but in today's climate, it's more challenging than ever. With rece...
Should Tech Companies Be Paying Us for Our Data? - with Nick Vincent
10 Apr 2023
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Send a textEvery minute, 990,000 Tinder profiles are swiped, 156 million emails are sent, and 16 million text messages are sent out.Moreover, Google p...
Powering the Future: How Governments are Supporting Battery Production for Electric Vehicles
13 Mar 2023
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Send a textGovernments are going BIG on batteries! As the world transitions towards cleaner energy sources, Governments have recognized the importance...
How About:Energy is Revolutionizing Battery Research & Development - with Gavin White
06 Mar 2023
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Send a textIt seems like every electronic device these days involves some type of battery - your phone, your laptop, and even your CAR! We had another...
How Technology Is Transforming the $2 Trillion Shipping Industry - With Martin Verhaegen
13 Feb 2023
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Send a textTransporting people and cargo across the globe is almost as old as time itself! With shipping accounting for 90% of World Trade, it was sur...
Why Using Credit Cards Is Getting More Expensive
06 Feb 2023
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Send a textIn the past 2 years, inflation has been making headlines all over the world! To add to the higher grocery and utility bills, payments proce...
How Visa Became the Biggest Financial Company in the World
30 Jan 2023
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Send a textIn the previous episodes, we’ve chatted about currencies and how cash was increasingly playing a smaller role, even in fast growing count...
How UPI Revolutionized India's Economy
23 Jan 2023
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Send a textTechnology is changing finance in developing countries. The Pandemic turbocharged it. With a staggering 650 million Internet users, India h...
The End of U.S. Dollar Dominance?
16 Jan 2023
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Send a textThe dollar tumbled to a nine-month low against the euro this past week, after data showed U.S. inflation was easing, prompting bets that th...
Why the Pound Fell to a Record Low and What That Means for the UK Economy
02 Jan 2023
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Send a textTwo months ago, the British government released a “Growth Plan” that talked about tax cuts worth about $45B. That led to a series of ev...
How the U.S. Dollar has Become a 'Wrecking Ball' for the Global Economy
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn early 2021 the dollar was near its lowest level in more than five years against a broad basket of currenciesFast forward to July of 2022...
How This Robot Will Make Your Dinner - with Rajagopal Natarajan
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDuring the pandemic, the way you’ve eaten has likely changed. Either you ate out less, you cooked more, or you wholeheartedly embraced fo...
How Sustainable Data Centers Can Help Us Achieve Our Climate Goals - with Dr. Bharath Ramakrishnan
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textOne of the highest consumers of electric power are data centers. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the data center indust...
How Data Centers Are Guzzling up the World’s Electricity - with Dr. Bharath Ramakrishnan
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWhether you’re streaming "House of the Dragon" on HBO or just chatting with your friends on Whatsapp, both cause a chain reacti...
What Is Moore’s Law and Are We Coming to the End of It?
24 Oct 2022
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Send a textAs of 2022, approximately 95% of organizations are using cloud computing for their work and nearly 85% of companies have deployed their wor...
👋🏽 Hey It's Jed & Shikher.
10 Oct 2022
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Send a textHey THC Listeners! Jed has had a family emergency come up and had to fly to the Philippines to take care of family.As a result we at THC ar...
Amazon AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud
19 Sep 2022
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Send a textIt’s happening. AWS is no longer the only cloud heavyweight doing business with the US Government. Azure has recently signed a $10 Billio...
How Cloud Computing Changed Business & Technology Forever
12 Sep 2022
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Send a textIBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all taking the helm for the cloud renaissance. Gartner says that in 2021, spending on public cloud s...
Gaming Is Bigger Than You Think.. And Its Growing!
29 Aug 2022
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Send a textHappy Labor Day Weekend for our American listeners! We hope you have a long and restful weekend!We're revisiting some of our episode f...
Why Batteries Are Extremely Important for the Renewable Energy Transition?
29 Aug 2022
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Send a textWe're revisiting some of our favorite deep dives with industry experts from past episodes.A global transition to clean energy is under...
We Just Turned 2! So Do You Want a Free Pumpkin Spice Latte?
15 Aug 2022
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Send a textTHC Turns 2 🎉🎉🎉Hey THC listeners!Its been 2 years since we started Things Have Changed, and we just wanted to take this time to ...
How TikTok Is Eating up All of Social Media
08 Aug 2022
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Send a textSince the start of the pandemic, there has been one app that has taken over Social Media. Tiktok is the most downloaded app in the App stor...
From Feast to Famine: Why Tech Is Preparing For Hiring Freezes And Layoffs
01 Aug 2022
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Send a textWith a historically tight labor market, why are some tech companies laying people off?With Inflation not slowing down and the economy showi...
Why Are Thousands of Flights Being Cancelled Right Now?
25 Jul 2022
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Send a textAirlines globally have cancelled hundreds of flights, citing labor shortages. They blame COVID-19, uncertainty, and the tight labor market ...
Summer Break.. See You Soon!
11 Jul 2022
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Send a textHey THC Listeners! Jed and Shikher will be taking a super short summer break to build the next pipeline of guests for Things Have Changed. ...
Why Are So Many Leaving Their Jobs Right Now?
04 Jul 2022
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Send a textAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 47 million Americans quit their jobs in 2021. So.. During the Pandemic, the def...
How to be More Efficient at Imposing Sanctions with Professor Seth Benzell
27 Jun 2022
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Send a text32 years ago, Mcdonalds opened a restaurant in Moscow. Many people interpretted it as a soft integration to the west. In 1990, 30,000 peopl...
How Effective are Western Sanctions with Professor Seth Benzell
20 Jun 2022
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Send a textAs one of the worlds most televised conflict rages on in Ukraine, western countries, not directly involved, look to utilize a weapon that i...
Is the Global Housing Market Heading for a Downturn?
13 Jun 2022
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Send a textThe Great Deceleration in housing might just be bigger than a seasonal cooldown.The economic shock of higher mortgage rates means borrowers...
How Can We Solve the Nation’s Affordable Housing Crisis?
06 Jun 2022
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Send a textNearly three-quarters of Americans say owning a home is a higher measure of achievement than having a successful career, raising a family o...
Should I Buy a House in 2022?
30 May 2022
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Send a textAt the closer end of 2021, inflation started to scare the average person. Prices getting higher was something that not only worries the ave...
How Rising Rent Prices Will Displace Millions of Americans
23 May 2022
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Send a textAs cities come back to life with the influx of people returning from their COVID getaways, the rise of rent prices are hurting us all. Some...
Why Universal Basic Income Can Help Battle Inequality With Prof. Seth Benzell
16 May 2022
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Send a textIn our previous episode, we talked to Dr. Seth Benzell about How the Pandemic Changed Global Labor Markets and in this episode, we talk abo...
How the Pandemic Has Changed Global Labor Markets with Prof. Seth Benzell
09 May 2022
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Send a textAutomation has been a recurring theme in corporations quest to improve their bottom line and stay competitive. So what has changed post the...
How Would the Economy of the Metaverse Work?
02 May 2022
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Send a textIn the past few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about gaming, the big trends shaping this massive and growing industry, and how Metaverse fits ...
Could Gaming Lead Us to the Metaverse?
25 Apr 2022
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Send a textIn our last episode, we spoke about how big tech was looking at gaming as a growth strategy. And the way to own the future. The metaverse f...
Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting Facebook’s Future on the Metaverse
18 Apr 2022
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Send a textSo... 6 months ago, Facebook did something that very few companies in the world of business has ever done. They changed their entire busine...
Why The Future of Gaming is Subscription
11 Apr 2022
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Send a textIf you’ve ever played games on a console before like the xbox, playstation, nintendo, or even the game boy, you probably remember how exp...
Spring Breakers! We're Doing Video!
28 Mar 2022
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Send a textThe Things Have Changed Podcast Team is exploring video!Support the showThings Have Changed
How Nations Are Driving Towards Newer Battery Energy Economies
21 Mar 2022
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Send a textIn 2020, Out of 3.4 million electric cars sold in the world, only 328K was in the US... Compared to 1.39 million in Europe and 1.33M in Chi...
The Dirty Truth about the EV Revolution - A Peak into Battery Pollution and Recycling
14 Mar 2022
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Send a textThe growth of EV’s have gotten a lot of people excited... but has gotten environmentalists torn. Think about it... the more important mat...
Why Is It So Hard To Make Batteries?
07 Mar 2022
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Send a textAs the world leans more into electrification, people learn the importance of energy storage. In our previous episode with battery people, Y...
How Batteries Will Power the Next Technology Era - with Nicholas Yiu and Yen Yeh
28 Feb 2022
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Send a textA global transition to clean energy is underway. What technologies will be essential to this zero emission future?Governments and Compani...
Inflation Is at 40 Year Highs. Why Should It Matter to You?
21 Feb 2022
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Send a textFor most of your life, borrowing has been relatively easy. Think about it.. It’s been rather easy to get a credit card, get a loan for a ...
The Gaming Industry Is Now Bigger Than Movies And Music.. Combined
14 Feb 2022
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Send a textGaming makes a lot of money. Now, Tech wants a piece of it 🎮In the last decade, the gaming industry has been smashing Hollywood’s earn...
How Data Analysis Is Changing The Sport of Badminton
07 Feb 2022
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Send a textThere's been a data revolution in sports in the past few years.From the Oakland A’s & Houston Rockets in American sports to Euro...
How Companies Are Being Forced to Pay Millions in Ransoms to Hackers
31 Jan 2022
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Send a textCyber Attacks were shockingly brazen in 2021, targeting everything from hospitals, schools, to critical infrastructure at an alarming rate....
Why 2021 Was Crypto's Breakthrough Year
24 Jan 2022
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Send a text2021 was a breakthrough year for crypto assetsWe’ve seen Bitcoin hit multiple new all-time high prices and more institutional buy-in from...
Food, Fuel, Rent... Why is Everything Getting More Expensive?
17 Jan 2022
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Send a textThroughout 2021, a lot has changed. But one thing has been constant: Inflation. As COVID still continues to take a toll on global supply ...
2021 Was a Huge Year for Restaurants, Space Exploration, and the Cloud
10 Jan 2022
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Send a textA lot of our favorite stories from 2021 revolve around the fact that the continued public health crisis have pushed technology companies, c...
Happy Holidays! ☃️
27 Dec 2021
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Send a textHey! The Things Have Changed Podcast Team is taking a winter break! We hope that you have the time to do the same!We're going to use t...
How to Break Into the Most In-Demand Job in Tech - with Diego Granados
20 Dec 2021
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Send a textThese days nearly every company is, or is in the process of becoming, a tech company. Retailers have mobile apps and e-commerce platforms. ...
Could Dutch Agricultural Technology Feed the World Sustainably?
13 Dec 2021
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Send a textIn a world of extreme climate change, the traditional way of producing food is simply not enough to feed the world of the future. As less a...
How Blockchain Technology Can Enable Global Financial Inclusion - with Hossein Azari
06 Dec 2021
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Send a textClose to a third of the world's adults are unbanked. Crypto aims to solve this disparity!The mission of the blockchain is not all abou...
How Crypto-Based DeFi Will Disrupt the Financial Industry - with Hossein Azari
29 Nov 2021
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Send a textInnovation is exciting! And all of us have witnessed new technology entering every major industry, none more so that the traditional financ...
What Will Farms of the Future Look Like?
22 Nov 2021
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Send a textFood is the very nourishment of life. Climate change, population growth and population density have come to challenge the way we feed ourse...
Will Software Engineers Be Replaced by AI in the Future?
08 Nov 2021
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Send a textTechnology has already come after several blue collar jobs of the past, like assembly line workers, cashiers, phone operators, and travel a...
Should Tech Companies Be Paying Us for Our Data? - with Nick Vincent
01 Nov 2021
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Send a textEvery minute, 990,000 Tinder profiles are swiped, 156 million emails are sent, and 16 million text messages are sent out.Moreover, Google p...
👋🏽 Hey It's Jed & Shikher.
30 Aug 2021
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Designing an App for Billions of Users – with Jean-Marc Denis
16 Aug 2021
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Send a textCommunication apps have become vital in our day to day lives with popular mobile messaging like Whatsapp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger ...
A New Space Race Is Underway! How Did We Even Get Here?
09 Aug 2021
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Send a textImagine if airplanes weren’t reusable. It costs a staggering $250-300M to buy a Boeing 747. A one way trip to fly anywhere on the plane...
There Are a Record Number of Jobs. Why Is Unemployment Still So High?
02 Aug 2021
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Send a textAs we see rich countries slowly open up, there is an interesting economic phenomenon taking place. While Americans are coming out of lockdo...
Do You Feel Weird Throwing Away Your Tech? – with Charles Duffy
26 Jul 2021
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Send a textHow many times have you had to throw away your electronics because they were out of date? Or not repairable? The result is a growing mounta...
Retail Investors Are Smarter Than You Think – with Lorenzo Ampil
19 Jul 2021
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Send a textSince the start of the pandemic, retail investors have plowed billions into the market, making calls against institutional investors. With ...
Reinventing Early Education Through Smart Toys – with Yuting Su
12 Jul 2021
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Send a textWhat kind of toys did you have as a child? Was it Snakes & Ladders? Uno? For the Millennials, did you have a Game Boy? Each each year, ...
Cloud Wars: Amazon AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud
05 Jul 2021
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Send a textIt’s happening. AWS is no longer the only cloud heavyweight doing business with the US Government. Azure has recently signed a $10 Billio...
Cloud Wars: How Cloud Computing Changed Business & Technology Forever
28 Jun 2021
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Send a textIBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all taking the helm for the cloud renaissance. Gartner says that in 2021, spending on public cloud s...
Cybersecurity: How Nation States Are Hacking Corporations
21 Jun 2021
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Send a textCyber-risk has more than quadrupled since 2002 and tripled since 2013. Cyber-attacks are now common across industries. Just recently, Fir...
Cybersecurity: How Companies Are One Hack Away From Disaster
14 Jun 2021
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Send a textEven before the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world has been moving towards digitization. We spend almost all our lives on the internet and even t...