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Danny in the Valley
Smash Notes has 28 notes from 4 episodes of Danny in the Valley, hosted by Danny Fortson. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Business, Gadgets, Tech News.
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.
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Top notes
- What Is Driving Proliferation of Fake News
- How Valuable Is Content on the Internet
- Can Ads Alone Fund High Quality Publishing?
- Has Internet Gone Too Far
- Why Are Children Such Good Models for Artificial Intelligence
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Twitter co-founder Ev Williams: “You’re selling attention” -
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Houseparty’s Ben Rubin and Sima Sistani: “An epidemic of loneliness” -
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UC Berkeley's Alison Gopnik: "Babies are the ultimate supercomputers" -
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Finless Foods’ Mike Selden: “We brew fish meat”
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- SUMMER INTERLUDE!
- Lightship's Ben Parker: "Electrifying a beige industry"
- Buck Institute’s Eric Verdin: “Half of children born today will live to 100”
- Synchron's Tom Oxley: "Implanting the first brain-computer interface”
- Cervest's Iggy Bassi and Karan Chopra: "Creating a climate risk X-ray”
- Investor and author Matthew Ball: "The metaverse's time is nigh"
- Mike Alfred & Zume's Alex Garden on crypto, pizza and the future of humanity
- Ample's John de Souza: "Electric car charging is broken"
- Shopify's Harley Finkelstein: “There’s room for us and Amazon”
- Persefoni’s Kentaro Kawamori: “Capitalism created the climate problem - and will solve it”
- Wired’s Steve Levy on Meta and What3words’ founder Chris Sheldrick on mapping the world
- Starling's Anne Boden: "The banks have lost their confidence"
- Arrival's Avinash Rugoobur: "No one has ever made vehicles this way"
- Miss Excel's Kat Norton: "How I made millions doing Tiktok videos - about Microsoft Excel”
- Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"
- UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid and James Currier of NFX on Musk’s Twitter takeover and the state of social media
- Spring Free EV's Sunil Paul: "I've been trying to give away this idea for 10 years"
- Second Life's Philip Rosedale: "Metaverse millionaires"
- Bimble’s Francesca Howland and Julia Mallaby: “We launched a travel startup in Covid”
- Kraken's Jesse Powell: "Currencies have a finite life"
- Powerhouses Emily Kirsch: “Investing in saving our species”
- Aeromobil's Patrick Hessel: "This is a car that flies"
- Cana's Matt Mahar: "The world's first beverage 'printer'"
- Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”
- Baroness Beeban Kidron: "A generational injustice"
- Bessmer's David Cowan: A primer on quantum computing
- Better Meat's Paul Shapiro: "Where's the beef? In the fermented mushroom roots"
- This week's pod
- Kernel's Bryan Johnson: "Measuring the mind and reengineering society"
- Pivot Bio's Karsten Temme: "Microbial factories"
- Relativity Space’s Tim Ellis: “Building the world’s first 3D-printed rocket”
- Parler's George Farmer: "Hate speech is subjective"
- Celsius’ Alex Mashinsky: “This is a fight for all the money in the world”
- SeedInvest’s Ryan Feit: “The best founders are drop-outs and criminals”
- Glorify's Ed Beccle: "James Corden, Michael Bublé and God"
- Benedict Evans
- Cambrian Biopharma's James Peyer: "70 will be the new 50"
- Genomic Prediction’s Elizabeth Carr: “Scoring embryos”
- Thanksgiving!
- Cruise’s Oliver Cameron: “The Everest of self-driving tech”
- Think Better's Heath Jansen: "Riding the millennial super cycle"
- A taste test of lab-grown chicken with Upside Foods' Uma Valeti
- Bessemer’s David Cowan: “The more off-the-wall the better”
- Twilio’s Jeff Lawson: “Build or die”
- Open Philanthropy's Holden Karnofsky: "Artificial intelligence and the most important century"
- Planet's Will Marshall: "Taking care of spaceship earth
- Sila's Gene Berdichevsky: "The world's going 100% electric"
- Colossal's George Church: "Elephants in Alaska"
- Kettle's Nat Manning: "Insuring the 'biblical stuff'"
- High Fidelity's Philip Rosedale: "The trouble with building the metaverse"
- Houzz's Adi Tatarko: "From nightmare project to home-improvement unicorn"
- Nobell Foods’ Magi Richani: “I refused to accept life without cheese”
- The Production Board’s Dave Friedberg: “Technology will save the day - hopefully”
- Hinge's Justin McLeod: "Engineering intimacy"
- Pearson's Andy Bird: "Our business model was broken"
- Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"
- Antonio Garcia Martinez: "Silicon Valley's necessary delusions"
- Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”
- Throwback edition! A deep dive into the space race
- Atai’s Christian Angermeyer: “Funding the psychedelic renaissance”
- Archer Aviation’s Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein: “The world is rooting for our air taxis”
- Bonus Episode; Secrets of the Side Hustle- Tech for good with OLIO co-founder Tessa Clarke
- Whatnot’s Grant Lafontaine: “Re-inventing eBay for today”
- Gridware’s Tim Barat: “A Fitbit for power poles”
- Yield Guild Games’ Gabby Dizon: “This video game is saving lives”
- A very quick pause...
- Endless West’s Alec Lee: “We make aged whisky - in 24 hours”
- Jim Mellon: "Cultured meat will be bigger than electric vehicles"
- BitBio’s Mark Kotter: “A single cell to feed the world”
- DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "San Francisco is a sinking ship"
- Beacon's Fraser Robinson: "The more swear words people use to describe a problem, the bigger the opportunity"
- Gitlab’s Sid Sidbrandij: “Meetings are expensive”
- Cade Metz: “The human didn’t have a chance”
- Larva Labs’ Matt Hall: “Creating cryptopunks"
- Terraformation’s Yishan Wong: “Forest as a service”
- Alchemy's Nikil Viswanathan: "NFTs are the future"
- Tim O'Reilly: "Silicon Valley: turning idealists into monopolists"
- Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "We just had to wait it out"
- Gebru
- Zeus Living’s Kulveer Taggar: “It was all unravelling before my eyes”
- Nurx’s Varsha Rao: “The simplest things were incredibly hard”
- Varda’s Delian Asparouhov: “The space gold rush”
- Jason Calacanis: Silicon Valley v the media
- Shift4's Jared Isaacman: "Commanding the first civilian mission to space"
- Cover’s Alexis Rivas: “Lego houses”
- Economist Eli Dourado: "City lights on the moon and living past 130"
- Neeva's Sridhar Ramaswamy: "We can do better than Google"
- Investing in US's Dmitri Mehlhorn: “The business of making Trump a one-term president”
- Substack's Chris Best: "We knew we were walking into a firestorm”
- Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"
- Tim O'Reilly: "The landlords of the Internet"
- Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: “Replumbing the financial system”
- Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”
- Plenty's Nate Storey: "Kale outta Compton"
- Ruben Harris: "A backwards version of the Wu-Tang clan”
- Mmhmm's Phil Libin: "Hospital clowns to investment bankers”
- Avalanche Strategy’s Michiah Prull: “Measuring oomph”
- Parler's John Matze: "Hate speech is free speech"
- Standard Cognition's Jordan Fischer: "Cashierless stores are coming"
- Higher Ground Labs' Shomik Dutta: "Nothing clarifies the mind like losing”
- NYU's Paul Romer: "An evil decision"
- DoNotPay’s Josh Browder: “A bot to build bots”
- Bollinger Motors’ Robert Bollinger “I've spent tens of millions on a childhood dream”
- Paypal's Dan Schulman: “The best way to win a fight is to avoid one”
- Colour of Change’s Arisha Hatch: “Silicon Valley is living a lie”
- Blendjet’s Ryan Pamplin: “I’ll never sell out again”
- Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrave: “Throwing virtual tomatoes”
- Bonus Episode; Stories of our times - Tik Tok and the data war
- Flexport's Ryan Petersen: "Plan for the unimaginable"
- DuckDuckGo's Gabriel Weinberg: "Google's privacy washing"
- Christian Lanng
- Dan Buettner
- Algorithmic Justice League’s Joy Buolamwini: “Pale male data”
- 1QBit's Andrew Fursman: "We’ve explored zero percent of what’s possible”
- Johns Hopkins University’s Dr Amash Adalja: “We failed miserably”
- Zyper’s Amber Atherton: “From ‘Made in Chelsea’ to a garage in Palo Alto”
- Trint’s Jeff Kofman: “Rise of the voice economy"
- AI Now's Rashida Richardson: "Free-range facial recognition"
- Web Summit’s Paddy Cosgrove: “We’re in the hands of the gods”
- This week's pod
- Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun: “A watershed moment for online education”
- NFX’s James Currier: “The end of the social media ice age”
- Inrupt’s John Bruce “The web we could have”
- Curative’s Fred Turner: “A million tests a week”
- Mojo Vision's Steve Sinclair: “Tech in your eye”
- Moneyball's Michael Lewis: “the Trump Death Clock”
- Lean Startup's Eric Riles: "The cavalry is not coming"
- Special Episode: Stories of our times - could tech giants get us out of lockdown?
- Meredith W
- Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton: “Legs over wheels”
- Saxonov
- Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo: “Teleporting medical supplies”
- Paul Romer
- Fifty Years‘ Seth Bannon: “
- Coronavirus Special: Dr John Ioannadis: "Minimal evidence, monumental decisions"
- Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"
- Beeflow's Matias Viel: "Building better bees"
- Stanford’s Matthew Jackson: “You’re not as popular as you think”
- Expensify's David Barrett: “Any good idea has to sound bad”
- Shorter's Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: "Arguing for the four-day work week”
- Virgin Galactic’s George Whitesides: “Democratising space”
- Zues Living's Kulveer Taggar: "The Greek god of corporate housing"
- Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon: “Passing the Mr. Burns test”
- Caliva's Dennis O'Malley: "We're simple farmers - of cannabis"
- Socos Labs' Vivienne Ming: “I want to build better people”
- Atari’s Al Alcorn: “The dog who caught the car”
- Tulip's Tom Harries: "Ashes to airmail"
- Openwater's Mary Lou Jepson: "Telepathy is inevitable"
- Pinscreen's Hao Li: "Deeepfakes have been democratised
- Square Roots' Kimbal Musk: “Working in tech was like chewing sawdust”
- Lily.ai’s Purva Gupta: “Why do these shorts make me sad?”
- Humm’s Iain McIntrye and Tim Fiori: “A brain-enhancement subscription”
- Stratechery's Ben Thompson: "Apple's App Store is textbook anti-competitive"
- Microsoft's Brad Smith: "Orwell's 1984 was a warning"
- Atari's Nolan Bushnell: "I started tinkering in third grade and never stopped"
- Ben Horowitz: "Jeff Bezos should be more like Genghis Khan”
- Stuart Russell: “When machines become smarter than us, there will be no 'reset' button”
- Lilium's Daniel Wiegand: "Flying hairdryers"
- Prellis Biologics’ Melanie Matheu: “Lab-grown kidneys"
- We're back! Season 4 launch
- An Update, and other pod news
- Introducing the Pivot
- Andreessen Horowitz's Scott Kupor: "Sand Hill Road 'frenemies'"
- Center for Human Technology’s Tristan Harris: “Tech’s inconvenient truth”
- LabGenius' James Field: "The dawn of super-humans"
- Sila Nanotechnologies' Gene Berdichevsky: “The million-mile battery”
- Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman: "15 years battling Google"
- Five questions with.... Andreessen Horowitz's Angela Strange
- Mr Nice's Neil Mahapatra: "Every mammal can get high"
- Kai Fu Lee: "AI isn't biased, humans are"
- Blue Zones' Dan Buettner: "Fine-tuning the human machine"
- Apeiron’s Christian Angermayer: "Magic mushrooms' long, strange trip"
- Esther Wojcicki: “Kids do what you do, not what you say”
- GoCardless' Hiroki Takeuchi: "We thought about quitting once a week"
- Clara Foods' Arturo Elizondo: "Eggs - without the chicken"
- Arch Mission Foundation’s Nova Spivack: “Humanity's billion-year backup”
- Humu's Laszlo Bock: "Nudge, nudge"
- Dr Phyllis Gardner, Stanford professor and Theranos critic: "I'll only really feel good if she's convicted"
- Troy Carter: "There was no Plan B"
- Jon Vlassopulos: "We're all nano-influencers"
- BeeFlow's Matias Viel: "Bionic Bees"
- Renee DiResta: "Information gone haywire"
- Patreon's Jack Conte: “People used to pay for things”
- Academia.edu's Richard Price: "The end of the paywall"
- Uber's Mark Moore: "Don't call them flying cars"
- Five questions with... Benedict Evans
- Credit Karma's Nichole Mustard: "Self-driving finance"
- DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "Your very own robot lawyer”
- Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: "Stupidity or genius"
- Pioneer's Daniel Gross: “Everything big starts small”
- Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"
- Five Questions with... Tim Draper
- IndieBio’s Arvind Gupta: “Recoding life”
- Five Questions with... Louis Hyman
- Index Ventures' Danny Rimer and Jan Hammer: "Quinoa-bots and sneaker heads"
- 89up's Mike Harris: "Hiding in plain sight"
- Mick Batyske: "DJing is like angel investing"
- Naveen Jain: "Moon babies and optional illness"
- Longevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”
- Former Google PR chief Jessica Powell: "Light-sabre aerobics"
- Lambda School's Austen Allred: "Go to university - if you can pay for it in cash"
- Five Questions with... Amazon's former chief scientist Andreas Weigend
- Babylon Health's Ali Parsa: "A doctor in your pocket"
- Five Questions with.... Adam Fisher
- HVMN's Geoff Woo and Brianna Stubbs: "Metabolic Dominance"
- Calm's Michael Acton Smith: "Dopamine-frazzled zombies"
- Five Questions with... Jason Calacanis - PART 2
- Five Questions with... Jason Calacanis - PART 1
- Color Genomics’ Othman Laraki: “A crystal ball for cancer”
- What3words' Chris Sheldrick: "Driver, take me to 'Table Chair Spoon'"
- WeTransfer's Damien Bradfield: "The future of the paid Internet"
- EVelozcity's Stefan Krause: "Skateboards, top hats and the future of the car"
- Boris Sofman: "Engineering emotion"
- Five Questions with... cyber-security expert Dan Woods
- Beyond Meat's Ethan Brown: "Burger 2.0"
- Sir Richard Branson: "Moon hotels"
- Jaron Lanier: "The bummer machine"
- PlateJoy’s Christina Bognet: “Healthy-eating algorithms”
- SPECIAL: Inside the world of Esports
- TheBoardlist's Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: "Women are the new unicorns"
- Five Questions with.... NYU's Scott Galloway
- Vicarious founder Scott Phoenix: "Humanity's last invention"
- Bill Gates: "The report card of humanity"
- Zipline's Keller Rinaudo: "Blood from the sky"
- Five questions with... Benedict Evans
- Former Facebook executive Antonio Garcia Martinez: "A gaping wound of data"
- Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: “Building a crypto-Google”
- Groupon founder Andrew Mason: “I may not be Jeff Bezos or Jesus Christ, but I've done ok”
- Sophia Mahfooz: “It’s torture or an adventure, depending on your perspective’”
- Stripe's Patrick Collison: "I'm petrified of getting too confident"
- AirBnb's Brian Chesky: "We're the David to the hotel industry Goliath"
- SENS Foundation’s Aubrey de Grey: “You may live for a million years”
- Hooked’s Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia: “We went from zero to 40 million users"
- Tim O'Reilly: "It's our brains that are being hacked"
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: "I have this crazy idea that people will pay for free news"
- ROBOTS SPECIAL: Inside the rise of the machines
- Trulia founder Pete Flint: “Either the world was ending, or we had an opportunity”
- Comma.ai's George Hotz: "Computers don't get drunk"
- Baroness Beeban Kidron: "Kids are more than clickbait"
- Tanium’s Orion Hindawi: “This is a snake-oil industry”
- Martha Lane Fox: “A Geneva Convention for the web”
- NYU's Scott Galloway: "Being an innovator doesn't make you Jesus"
- SPECIAL: inside the cryptocurrency craze
- Scribd’s Trip Adler: “In the future, we won’t buy or own anything.”
- Lightspeed’s Jeremy Liew: “People aren’t sneaking out of class to sext”
- Plenty's Matt Barnard: "You’re eating year-old apples”
- Plug and Play's Saeed Amidi: "We invest a little money, then pray a lot"
- Uber's Frances Frei: "Culture can kill a company, full stop"
- Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Make Data Great Again"
- Marc Andreessen: "Darwin has kicked in"
- SPECIAL: inside Silicon Valley's quest to defeat ageing
- Boxed.com's Chieh Huang: “1999 called, they want their business model back”
- Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff: "You just bankrupted the company."
- Pullstring CEO Oren Jacob: “Alexa, order me 100 gallons of chocolate ice cream”
- Headspace CEO Rich Pierson: ”This is my business partner, the ex-Buddhist monk.”
- Evernote founder Phil Libin: “I sold my first company for $500”
- Planet CEO Will Marshall: "We swept the leaves out of the garage and started building satellites"
- True Ventures' Jon Callaghan: 'You've got to fail with class'
- Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"
- Mitch and Freada Kapor: "Uber is a seven-foot tall 12-year old"
- Slack co-founder Cal Henderson: 'Email is the cockroach of the Internet'
- Hyperloop's Dirk Ahlborn: “The moon landing of transport”
- Meta AR's Ryan Pamplin: "The end of the flatties"
- Jason Calacanis: "A cacophony of idiots"
- Comet Labs' Saman Farid: "Let's be friends with the robots"
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