Administrator | December 27, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Venture capitalists don't always talk about regret. Especially when, like Josh Stein, you got in early on companies like Box, Chartbeat, AngelList, Redfin, Path and Twilio. But when Jason sat down with Josh, who's been a VC for 10 years with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he opened up about [...]
Administrator | December 20, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode We start at the beginning. What's a bitcoin? Then quickly move into where it could go: micro payments on your car? (No coin in your virtual wallet, car doesn't start?) What about electronic voting? Whether virtual currencies could replace everything from credit card payments to the way we [...]
Administrator | December 17, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Chip Conley shook up the hotel industry in the 80s, starting with his rock'n'roll hotel, The Phoenix, in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. He began with a magazine - Rolling Stone - and 5 adjectives to describe the hotel, and how it's ideal guests saw themselves: funky, irreverent, adventures, cool, [...]
Administrator | December 13, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Bastian Lehmann didn't want to start Postmates. Users demanded it. The company he now runs - and loves - is like Uber for courier service, making it easy to have prepared food, or anything else, delivered in under an hour. The service launched in DC this week and [...]
Administrator | December 10, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Can one guy be both a wunderkind and an elder statesman? If anyone in the world of tech fits the bill, it's Kevin Rose. He made national headlines in 2006 as his site Digg soared in popularity and investors gave it a $60m valuation. He left Digg to [...]
Administrator | December 7, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Glenn Greenwald takes his renown - and all of Snowden's leaked documents - with him to a new for-profit news venture backed by Pierre Omidyar. A source inside Uber leaked a screenshot with its revenue numbers to Valleywag, and the company is doing better than observers thought. A [...]
Administrator | December 3, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Rose Broome was walking on a cold night in San Francisco when she noticed a homeless woman living on the street. She thought, there must be a service to help people in need get crucial items like food and personal hygiene products, with some amount of transparency. When [...]
Administrator | November 26, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode QuizUp is the hottest thing in the App Store right now. Why? It's beautiful, social, and addictive. Everyone one loves trivia, says Founder and CEO Thor Fridriksson. And it's inherently competitive. QuizUp allows you to challenge strangers to matches, chat with them, and get in discussions around anything [...]
Administrator | November 23, 2013
watch listen share comment about this episode Drones, quadcopters and UAVs are some of the hottest products nerds can get their hands on. Why? Flying robots! We break down the space with Chris Anderson of 3D Robotics, and OMGPOP founder and quadcopter enthusiast Charles Forman. Not sure which ones are autonomous, which are goofy consumer [...]
