True Ventures' Jon Callaghan: 'You've got to fail with class'

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 (9:15), celebrating failure (16:00), a drone investment that crashed (21:00), backing Wordpress (26:00), why we're not in a bubble (27:15), turning computers on human health (32:00), why venture capital is a weird business (35:00), how money gets in the way of good ideas (39:45) and why robots are 'the next big thing' (42:15).

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Boxed.com's Chieh Huang: “1999 called, they want their business model back”

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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-car garage (1:30), why Brexit and small houses make com...

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Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: "You just bankrupted the company."

Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: "You just bankrupted the company."

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, the video doorbell company, to talk about about getting rejected on national television (2:00), turning fa...

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Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”

Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Oren Jacob, former CTO of film studio Pixar and founder of computer conversation startup Pullstring to talk about the new age of voice tech...

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Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”

Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Rich Pierson, co-founder of Headspace, the popular meditation app, to talk about how it started in London nine years ago (6:30), meeting hi...

22 Jul 201736min

Evernote founder Phil Libin: “I sold my first company for $500”

Evernote founder Phil Libin: “I sold my first company for $500”

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Phil Libin, founder of Evernote, one of the first companies to be labelled a “unicorn”, to talk about his plan to create the Netflix of arti...

16 Jul 201737min

Planet CEO Will Marshall: "We swept the leaves out of the garage and started building satellites"

Planet CEO Will Marshall: "We swept the leaves out of the garage and started building satellites"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Will Marshall, founder of Planet, a billion-dollar startup that operates the world’s largest constellation of satellites, to talk about tak...

8 Jul 201733min

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