Danny in the Valley

After more than a decade in London, Danny Fortson returns to Silicon Valley to meet the techies trying to change the world - and make loads of money while doing it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Eion's Ana Pavlovic Hans: “Rocks that clean up the planet”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ana Pavlovic Hans to talk about using rocks to cut carbon (3:00), coming up with the best “recipe” (8:00), the measurement...

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Mar 8, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon: "Back to the future of the Internet"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about writing a book on blockchain and crypto (4:00), why it’s still early (9:30), NFT’s (14:30), the computer...

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Mar 1, 2024

Pachama's Diego Saez Gil: "Building software to save nature"

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The Sunday Times; tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Diego Saez GIl, founder of Pachama, to talk about carbon reduction (4:00), hist first startups (6:10), Pachama’s start (12:00), building tools to catalyse climate projects...

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Feb 23, 2024

Expensify's David Barrett: "Venture capital is a scam”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on David Barrett, founder of Expensify, to talk about creating a “remote-first” company (3:15), the lounge (6:45), the return-to-office movement (14:15), going public and then getting its...

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Feb 16, 2024

Climactic's Raj Kapoor: "We need 1,000 climate tech unicorns"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Raj Kapoor, co-founder of Climactic, to talk about growing up in Pennsylvania (3:10), his early days in Silicon Valley (8:00), making himself president of the Internet (club)...

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Feb 9, 2024

The Hacking Games' Fergus Hay: "Most hackers are kids"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Fergus Hay, founder of The Hacking Games, to talk about why he started the company (5:00), the difference between the real and online worlds (9:30), why everyone gets caught...

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Feb 2, 2024

Investing in Us’ Dmitri Mehlhorn: “Tech and America’s $30bn election year”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dmitri Mehlhorn to talk about Investing in Us (4:45), what it invests in (7:30), funneling cash into election groups (13:20), why America’s election will be decided by the...

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Jan 26, 2024

Longevity enthusiast Bryan Johnson

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A throwback conversation with Bryan Johnson, a billionaire techie turned longevity enthusiast who goes to extreme measures to "reverse" his age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jan 19, 2024

Khan Academy’s Sal Khan: “Building an AI tutor for every student”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, to talk about how he started tutoring family members (4:30), doing startups in the dotcom boom (5:50), starting to do videos in 2006 (10:15),...

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Jan 12, 2024

Metaphysic’s Martin Adams: “Copyrighting humans”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Martin Adams of Metaphysic to talk about using artificial intelligence in entertainment (3:20), the Tom Cruise moment (5:50), how the technology is accelerating (9:20), what it...

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Dec 22, 2023

Common Sense's Jim Steyer: "I'm more worried than ever for our democracy"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media, the leading online advocacy group, to talk about 2024 as a pivotal year for democracy (4:20), whether Facebook is ready (8:30),...

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Dec 15, 2023

Babson’s David Stein: “Succeeding where Theranos failed”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on David Stein, chief executive of Babson Diagnostics, to talk about the importance of blood testing (4:49), why Babson is not Theranos (6:47), trying to compete with that idea...

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Dec 8, 2023

Apeiron’s Christian Angermayer: “AI, psychedelics and living for hundreds of years”

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The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Christian Angermayer, founder of Apeiron Investments, to talk about psychedelics in Oregon (4:15), the spiritual experience of a “trip” (11:30), progressing toward the first...

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Dec 1, 2023

Founders Fund’s Keith Rabois: “The joy of missing out”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Keith Rabois of Founders Fund to talk about leaving San Francisco for Miami (4:00), why San Francisco is a “black hole” (7:00), why remote work is broken (11:00), staying on...

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Nov 24, 2023

Stories of our times- Five days of chaos at ChatGPT HQ: The Sam Altman saga

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A special episode for your from our daily podcast from The Times: Last week, Sam Altman the CEO of OpenAI - the makers of ChatGPT - was sacked by his board. After a dramatic few days, he is back at the company along with a new board. But...

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Nov 17, 2023

MosaicML's Naveen Rao: "Bio-inspired AI"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Naveen Rao, founder of MosaicML, to talk about the efficiency of the human brain (3:30), slashing the cost to train AI models (8:00), how this is like the evolution of the car...

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Nov 10, 2023

Rewind AI’s Dan Siroker on honesty through AI eavesdropping

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dan Siroker, founder of Rewind AI, to talk about why he started the company (4:40), recording everything you do, see and read (7:10), living life on a “hot mic" (10:20), the...

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Nov 3, 2023

One doctor's experience inside Babylon Health

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hugh Harvey, managing director of consultancy Hardian Health, to talk about his time at Babylon Health (4:30), his first look at the company’s “artificial intelligence” (7:00),...

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Oct 27, 2023

AI Chats with Vinod Khosla and Tyler Cowen

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on two guests to talk about artificial intelligence. The first is Vinod Khosla, the legendary tech investor and founder of Khosla Ventures, to talk about how the rise of AI...

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Oct 20, 2023

Sima.ai's Krishna Rangasayee: “Plumbers of the AI age”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Krishna Rangasayee, founder and CEO of Sima.ai, to talk about why we need to remake the tech infrastructure for the AI age (5:10), what the “edge” is (8:30), why he started the...

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