ABOUT THIS EPISODEVinod Khosla — who co-founded Sun Microsystems, the company behind Java, in 1982 and remains one of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors — wasn’t shy about sharing his opinion at Hack the North. In a wide ranging fireside interview with Encircle CTO Mike Kirkup for the 1,000 assembled hackers, Khosla elaborated his unique… Continue reading Communitech : “Sometimes it’s nice to be hated by the wrong people”: Vinod Kohsla at Hack the North
Month: September 2016
Vox Conversations : Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
ABOUT THIS EPISODEStewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identityIf you came by the Vox office, you would find it oddly quiet. That’s not because we don’t like each other, or because we’re not social, or because we don’t have anything to say. It’s because almost all our communication happens… Continue reading Vox Conversations : Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity
Unchained : Why Tyler And Cameron Winklevoss Fell In Love With Bitcoin
ABOUT THIS EPISODETyler and Cameron Winklevoss, CEO and President, respectively, of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, talk about the importance of regulation in a sector once associated in popular culture with illicit activity. The twin brothers, who were the first to file with the SEC for a Bitcoin ETF, recount how they went from competing in the… Continue reading Unchained : Why Tyler And Cameron Winklevoss Fell In Love With Bitcoin