
Developers as Creatives
The rise of developers -- as buyers, as influencers, as a creative class -- is a direct result of "software eating the world", and of key shifts in IT from on-prem to cloud & SaaS to the API economy, ...
13 Jan 202133min

Section 230: Everything You Need to Know -- Tweets, Free Speech, Beyond
All about section 230 of the Communications Decency Act -- in what Wired senior writer (and host of the Get Wired podcast) described as "one of the clearest-but-still-nuanced explainers I've heard - w...
9 Jan 202139min

Baumol's Cost Disease, in Healthcare... and Where We Go Next
If software’s eating the world -- and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries -- why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant? And ...
6 Jan 202130min

Words of 2020! (and Metaphors, and Interfaces of the Year)
"In a year that left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other”... so it's unprecedented that for the first time, the Oxford English Dictionary did NOT name a word of the yea...
24 Des 202051min

The Machine That Made the Vaccine: Company, Platform, Innovation
In this special episode of Bio Eats World -- which aired right after the FDA authorized Moderna's mRNA vaccine for emergency use -- Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel tells the story of not just the vaccine’...
21 Des 202040min

The PPP Omnibus: Eminent Domain, Fraud, and Fintech
This episode features two relevant but previously recorded episodes, discussing the relevance of the Paycheck Protection Program (or PPP) from the Small Business Administration and the role of governm...
14 Des 202059min

The Holy Grail of Social + Fintech
The intersection of social and finance—as well as shifting attitudes around what we share about money online—have given way to an ambitious new wave of financial products.While revealing one’s financi...
7 Des 202024min

On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs
There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups -- go through, whether it's product-sales-etc. or pioneer to settler. In any case, as companies evolve, so must the lea...
4 Des 202042min






















