Sophia Mahfooz: “It’s torture or an adventure, depending on your perspective’”

Sophia Mahfooz: “It’s torture or an adventure, depending on your perspective’”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sophia Mahfooz, entrepreneur and former operations chief at Girls in Tech, on sharing a house with other Silicon Valley hopefuls (3:00), winning her first pitch competition (4:05), building a product in China (6:20), trying (and failing) to sell to the NHS (7:55), launching another company (10:25), growing up in Afghanistan (12:15), learning entrepreneurship at home (14:30), getting in to Draper University (17:20), going through hell to get funding (19:00), hitchhiking (23:00), giving the money back (29:05), starting at Girls in Tech (32:00), and leaving (33:45), the next thing (35:00), making a career in a male-dominated world (37:00), why she is so determined to work on the West coast (38:30) and meeting Elon Musk (40:15). PLUS: A quick chat with Michael Hughes, chief executive of LoopUp and founder of the Silicon Valley Internship Programme. (42:30).

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Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"

Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Antonio Garcia Martinez, one of the architect’s of Facebook’s ad system, to talk about his days at the social media giant (2:15), what Camb...

23 Mars 201829min

Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: “Building a crypto-Google”

Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: “Building a crypto-Google”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on billionaire entrepreneur Joe Lubin, co-founder of cryptocurrency ethereum, to talk about his pre-crypto career (4:05), producing reggae in Jamaica (5:00)...

23 Mars 201830min

Groupon founder Andrew Mason: “I may not be Jeff Bezos or Jesus Christ, but I've done ok”

Groupon founder Andrew Mason: “I may not be Jeff Bezos or Jesus Christ, but I've done ok”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Groupon founder Andrew Mason to talk about his new company Descript, launching his first startup in Chicago in the late 1990’s (4:30), turn...

16 Mars 201838min

Stripe's Patrick Collison: "I'm petrified of getting too confident"

Stripe's Patrick Collison: "I'm petrified of getting too confident"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Collison, founder of $9bn payments startup Stripe to talk about building the financial plumbing of the Internet (2:45), why the web...

2 Mars 201842min

AirBnb's Brian Chesky:  "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"

AirBnb's Brian Chesky: "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb, to talk about the home-sharing giant’s tenth birthday (3:00) aiming for a billion guests (4:30), how he pla...

23 Feb 201845min

SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”

SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aubrey de Grey, founder of the Sens Research Foundation, to talk the possibility of turning humans into a "multi-century species" (1:40), w...

16 Feb 201844min

Hooked’s Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia: “We went from zero to 40 million users"

Hooked’s Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia: “We went from zero to 40 million users"

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia to talk about remaking reading for millennials (4:00), on reaching 40m people in a year (5:10) creating “cha...

9 Feb 201840min

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