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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Refactor's Zal Bilimoria: “I am the investment committee”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Zal Bilimoria to talk about being a solo venture capitalist (3:15), how he decided on investments (6:30), happening into climate...

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Aug 2, 2024

How lab-grown meat company SciFi Foods failed - and why many others may soon follow

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It wasn’t long ago that lab-grown meat was booming. Startups raised billions of dollars. Investors boldly predicted the large scale slaughter of cows, chickens and fish would soon end. Then it all went pear-shaped. This week Joshua March...

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Jul 27, 2024

Mike Lynch’s first post-acquittal interview

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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch faced potentially dying in a federal prison. But in a 12-week trial in America, he beat all the odds and was found “not guilty” last month on 15 counts of fraud brought by the Department of Justice. He...

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Jul 19, 2024

Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the Amazon (11:40), raising money from...

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Jul 12, 2024

UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

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The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capability of AI to create totally believable...

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Jul 6, 2024

Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!

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Happy July 4th! Running back one of our favorite episodes from last summer - Fred Lalonde of Deep Sky, who speaks eloquently about the need to bury every ton of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See...

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Jun 28, 2024

PagerDuty's Jennifer Tejada: "Going public is the wedding, staying public is the marriage"

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When a website goes down, companies lose an average of $500,000 per minute. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jennifer Tejada, chief executive of PagerDuty, a company founded to keep that from happening (2:45)....

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Jun 21, 2024

Limbic’s Ross Harper: “AI won’t replace doctors, it will enhance them”

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The world is aflutter with talk of "AI doctors". A UK company has actually built one. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dr Ross Harper, co founder and chief executive of Limbic to talk about creating a clinical...

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Jun 14, 2024

Galvanize's Tom Steyer: "We're winning the climate fight"

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The climate fight is going far better than you realise. So says this week’s guest, Tom Steyer, former presidential candidate and founder of Galvanize Climate Solutions. He comes on to talk with Sunday Times correspondent Danny Fortson...

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Jun 8, 2024

X Prize's Peter Diamandis: "Talking to your dog and extending life"

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Do you want to talk to your whales? Monkeys? Your dog? AI will make it possible. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Peter Diamandis to talk about why he set up an $111m longevity prize (2:30), using AI to...

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May 31, 2024

Renaissance's Tom Kalil: "Transforming philanthropy"

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There are about 1,200 billionaires in Europe and America. Why don't they do more good with their money? This week's guest reckons he can get them to do just that. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Kalil,...

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May 24, 2024

Tortus' Dom Pimenta: "AI is the answer to NHS doctor burnout"

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AI will save the NHS - but not the wya you think. The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dom Pimenta, a cardiologist and co-founder of Tortus, to talk about the potential of its artificial intelligence interface...

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May 17, 2024

Gigascale's Mike Schroepfer: "From building Meta to investing in climate"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on MIke Schroepfer, Meta’s former CTO, to talk about why he left Meta (3:00), growing up working his parents’ radio station (9:00), going to Stanford (12:00), getting into tech...

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May 10, 2024

Openwater’s Mary Lou Jepsen: “We'll save your mind - then read it”

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Imagine if you shrunk all of the machines in a hospital and crammed them into a single device the size of an iPhone that could diagnose and treat hundreds of diseases. That is what this week’s guest is trying to do. The Sunday Times’...

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May 3, 2024

Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

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Would you watch an Olympics where everyone was doping? The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aron D’Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, to talk about launching a new competition where everyone is...

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Apr 26, 2024

Rainmaker's Augustus Doricko: "Cloud seeding is a risk worth taking"

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The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Augustus Doricko to talk about becoming a Thiel fellow (3:15), looking for the proof of God (5:45), starting his first company (9:30) cloud seeding (11:30), the history of...

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Apr 19, 2024

DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "We need laws to protect AI's"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on DoNotPay's Josh Browder to talk about how artificial intelligence is changing his business (4:20), paying a dividend (8:15), blowing up the myth that you have to lose money to...

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Apr 12, 2024

Arbol's Sid Jha: "Insurance in the era of climate calamities"

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Sid Jha of Arbol to talk about the importance of insurance (3:45), using data to change how it works (8:20), how climate has scrambled the industry (10:30), regulation (14:20),...

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Apr 5, 2024

Orchid's Noor Siddiqui: "Super-babies"

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The Sunday Times correspondent brings on Noor Siddiquui, founder of Orchid, to talk about screening embryos (5:00), starting the company (9:30), hiring people as a first time founder (13:00), targeting ageing at the very beginning...

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Mar 29, 2024

Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda: “Your AI soulmate”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Eugenia Kyuda, founder of Replika, to talk about AI friends (4:00), growing up in Russia (6:45), her dad’s experience at Chernobyl (9:00), applying to Y Combinator (12:30), her...

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