Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Harries to talk about his previous cremation startup (3:20), how he got into human composting (5:00), the problems with burial and crem...
10 Mar 202342min
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Stuart Russell, professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI), to talk about working in t...
3 Mar 202358min
Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.ai, to talk about his work at Google (4:00), joining the search giant in 2000 (6:50), what is deep learn...
24 Feb 202339min
Forum Mobility’s Matt LeDucq: “Electrifying trucking”
The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Matt LeDucq, founder of Forum Mobility, to talk about drayage (4:25), its health impacts (6:20), starting out in renewable energy twenty yea...
17 Feb 202344min
Giant's Cameron McLain: "Buddhism, music and venture capital"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cameron McLain, co-founder of Giant, to talk about why he chose the name (3:05), what he did before starting a venture fund (7:00), moving ...
10 Feb 202345min
Now's Lara Hodgson: "Don't follow your passion"
The Sunday Times’ correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Lara Hodgson, founder of NOW, to talk about her previous companies (3:15), how a payment problem led to the launch of Now (8:55), meeting US pol...
3 Feb 202344min
Mammoth’s Trevor Martin: “Programming the code of life”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Trevor Martin of Mammoth Biosciences, to talk about “programming biology” (4:10), the slow grind of innovation (7:25), CRISPR (10:20), the ...
27 Jan 202349min
Formic’s Saman Farid: “A robot arm can do the work of eight humans”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Saman Farid, founder of Formic, to tlak about why we need more robots (3:40), the labour shortage (7:20), the growing universe of jobs that...
20 Jan 202344min
