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).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Avsnitt(450)

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 Juli 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 Juli 201733min

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...

1 Juli 201744min

Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"

Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"

The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dollar startup, getting rejected 42 times by venture ...

24 Juni 201736min

Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"

Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Silicon Valley power couple and investors Mitch and Freda Kapor to talk about publicly challenging Uber, on Freada's pioneering work on wor...

17 Juni 201734min

Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'

Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, the wildly popular business messaging platform, on founding photo sharing company Flickr (2:30)...

10 Juni 201735min

Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”

Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dirk Ahlborn, chief executive of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to talk about traveling at airline speeds over land, why the idea has...

3 Juni 201757min

Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"

Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Pamplin of Meta, developer of augmented reality glasses, to talk about the next paradigm in computing and why it won't be the another G...

27 Maj 201749min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
varvet
badfluence
rss-jossan-nina
rss-borsens-finest
rss-svart-marknad
avanzapodden
uppgang-och-fall
svd-tech-brief
rss-dagen-med-di
fill-or-kill
borsmorgon
lastbilspodden
affarsvarlden
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
tabberaset
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi
bathina-en-podcast
rss-den-nya-ekonomin
bilar-med-sladd