ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn Episode 218 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher. Eric is co-founder of Schmidt Futures and the former CEO & Chairman of Google and Daniel is the inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. They are the co-authors, along with Henry Kissinger, of a phenomenal… Continue reading Hidden Forces : The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future | Eric Schmidt & Dan Huttenlocher
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The Vergecast : Interview: Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s metaverse
ABOUT THIS EPISODECasey Newton talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his vision for an embodied internet (or “the metaverse), the challenges of governing it, and gender imbalance in virtual reality today. They also discuss President Biden’s fierce criticism of Facebook’s failures in removing anti-vaccine content in the headlines. Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/22352063 Learn more about your… Continue reading The Vergecast : Interview: Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s metaverse
WSJ Tech News Briefing : Elon Musk on the State of Innovation in America
ABOUT THIS EPISODEOn this special episode, we bring you a conversation between WSJ Editor in Chief Matt Murray and Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, from the WSJ’s CEO Council summit earlier this week. Amanda Lewellyn hosts. Christopher Zinsli is our supervising producer. Kateri Jochum is the executive producer of WSJ Podcasts.Learn more… Continue reading WSJ Tech News Briefing : Elon Musk on the State of Innovation in America
WSJ Tech News Briefing : Tech Live: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Big Tech’s Power
ABOUT THIS EPISODEEarlier this week, the Justice Department dropped its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that Google illegally uses anticompetitive methods to protect its monopoly on search and search advertising. At our annual Tech Live conference, our Senior Personal Tech Columnist Joanna Stern asked former Google CEO Eric Schmidt for his thoughts. Plus, they… Continue reading WSJ Tech News Briefing : Tech Live: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Big Tech’s Power
The Vergecast : Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications
ABOUT THIS EPISODEVerge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield about remote working, competition with Microsoft, and the way technology changes how we communicate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/524GE/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP1902792254.mp3?updated=1590449894Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Danny In The Valley : Ben Horowitz: “Jeff Bezos should be more like Genghis Khan”
ABOUT THIS EPISODEThe Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about company culture (2:15), the Amazon example (7:), what’s wrong with new Uber (9:45), Uber’s old culture (12:15), Silicon Valley’s moment (15:55), how culture can be a company-killer (20:00), on whether capitalism is changing (25:15), why… Continue reading Danny In The Valley : Ben Horowitz: “Jeff Bezos should be more like Genghis Khan”
Danny In The Valley : Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel: “Stupidity or genius”
ABOUT THIS EPISODEY Combinator’s Michael Seibel: “Stupidity or genius”The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Michael Seibel, chief executive of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup bootcamp, to talk about why chaotic markets are good for startups (3:50), how he ended up at YC (6:20), the importance of clarity (7:50), why it’s both easier… Continue reading Danny In The Valley : Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel: “Stupidity or genius”
Danny In The Valley : Longevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”
ABOUT THIS EPISODELongevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Laura Deming, a 24-year-old longevity investor to talk about young scientists (3:05), the goal of the Longevity Fund (4:30), her incubator Age 1 (5:55), starting out as a 11-year-old (7:00), skipping school (10:00), getting funded by Peter… Continue reading Danny In The Valley : Longevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”
Hidden Forces : Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir | The Ethereum Roadmap and Solving the Blockchain Scalability Problem
ABOUT THIS EPISODEIn Episode 49 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir about the future roadmap for Ethereum. If contracts are the foundation of modern civilization, then our record systems are the infrastructure that keep this foundation from falling apart. These features allow our society to establish and verify identities;… Continue reading Hidden Forces : Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir | The Ethereum Roadmap and Solving the Blockchain Scalability Problem
Danny In The Valley : AirBnb’s Brian Chesky: “We’re the David to the hotel industry Goliath”
ABOUT THIS EPISODEAirBnb’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 plans to grow without destroying communities (7:30), growing up in New York… Continue reading Danny In The Valley : AirBnb’s Brian Chesky: “We’re the David to the hotel industry Goliath”