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True Ventures' Jon Callaghan: 'You've got to fail with class'
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jon Callaghan, founder of True Ventures, on investing in things before there is a market (3:15), finding Fitbit (6:00), backing big ideas (…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"
The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dollar startup, getting rejected 42 times by venture…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Silicon Valley power couple and investors Mitch and Freda Kapor to talk about publicly challenging Uber, on Freada's pioneering work on wo…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, the wildly popular business messaging platform, on founding photo sharing company Flickr (2:30…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to talk about traveling at airline speeds over land, why the idea ha…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Pamplin of Meta, developer of augmented reality glasses, to talk about the next paradigm in computing and why it won't be the another …
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Jason Calacanis: "A cacophony of idiots"
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent brings on Jason Calacanis, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific "angel" investors, to talk about being one of the first investors in Uber (3:00), being the Cesc …
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago
Comet Labs' Saman Farid: "Let's be friends with the robots"
The Sunday Times tech correspondent brings on Saman Farid, a investor who specialises in all things robotic to talk about how artificial intelligence is making machines smart (6:00), robots that pick…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago