Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"
Amid Facebook's record-setting financial performance and its pivot toward become a "metaverse" company, we air a revealing interview from last year (March 2020) with Stephen Levy, author of Facebook: ...
30 Jul 202156min
Antonio Garcia Martinez: "Silicon Valley's necessary delusions"
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Antonio Garcia Martinez, to talk about his winding career in tech and media (3:25), living in the woods (7:25), his Facebook memoir (11:00)...
23 Jul 20211h 3min
Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”
The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Janssen of Sofar to talk about the paucity of ocean data (3:30), creating an ocean sensing network (6:15), the engineering challenge (8...
16 Jul 202142min
Throwback edition! A deep dive into the space race
We repost a podcast from Tales of Silicon Valley, the narrative podcast that Danny did two years ago. In the week that Sir Richard Branson touched space, and just days before Jeff Bezos prepares to do...
15 Jul 202130min
Atai’s Christian Angermeyer: “Funding the psychedelic renaissance”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Christian Angermeyer to talk about spending $40 million on his own money to reinvent the psychedelics industry (3:46), his first magic mush...
9 Jul 202156min
Archer Aviation’s Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein: “The world is rooting for our air taxis”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein, co-founders of Archer Aviation, to talk about their air taxi startup (6:00), starting out in recruiting (9...
2 Jul 202159min
Bonus Episode; Secrets of the Side Hustle- Tech for good with OLIO co-founder Tessa Clarke
Danny will be back later this week with more tales from the valley. But first, here's a special extra episode from the team behind "Secrets of the Side Hustle"Food waste is one of the biggest contribu...
28 Jun 202136min
Whatnot’s Grant Lafontaine: “Creating an eBay for millennials”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Grant LaFontaine, co-founder of Whatnot, to talk about creating the successor to eBay (3:40), the collectibles boom (7:50), his first start...
25 Jun 202154min
