🇺🇸 United States Episodes

Technology can be an equalizer, especially as new tools democratize the expertise that was previously held only by a limited few. But is coding really the new literacy -- the fourth “r” -- after reading, writing and arithmetic? Should it be? Why doe...

Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, philosopher, journalist, author of #1 best-selling novel "The Transhumanist Wager" & 2016 US Presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

VCs wouldn't fund Salesforce ("that obviously won't work") when Marc Benioff began. With the cloud a growing part of practically every company, government, organization, and people's lives, a lot's changed since 1999. But what's next? Do enterprise ...

AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the classic book "Regional Advantage," still thinks the area's future is bright.

The security landscape is changing. Can companies fight back against an increasingly well-armed and sophisticated set of bad players? “I think it is the beginning of a wakeup call,” former deputy secretary of defense Ashton Carter says. “That said, I...

Bill Burr is a standup comedian and also hosts his own podcast called "Monday Morning Podcast" available on Spotify. His latest special "I'm Sorry You Feel That Way" premieres on Netflix on December 5th, 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andreas Antonopoulos is a bitcoin entrepreneur, he also serves on the advisory boards of several bitcoin startups and serves as the Chief Security Officer of Blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It might seem that culture at a startup is something that is just intuitive. And in the first days, with the first handful of people, that might be true. But the co-founders of Genius.com, Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory (pictured), found that even at 25...

Unbox Therapy is a YouTube channel "where products get naked." Lewis does in-depth reviews of new tech products releasing to the consumer market.  http://www.youtube.com/unboxtherapy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dorothy Leonard, author of "Critical Knowledge Transfer" ​and Harvard Business School professor, on retaining organizational expertise.

Rory MacDonald is a Canadian mixed martial artist currently signed with the UFC fighting in the Welterweight division. He is a former King of the Cage Lightweight Champion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How can ecommerce companies deal with the conflicting expectations of consumers and logistics realities of an on-demand economy? How can they compete with ecommerce giant Amazon, which just gets bigger every year? And given all this, how is physical ...

The ease with which we can order anything online masks the tremendous complexity of getting that item to your door in a day or two (or less). Andreessen Horowitz's Jeff Jordan leads a discussion with four experts in ecommerce logistics and operations...

Peter McGraw is an associate professor of Marketing and Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Along with journalist Joel Warner, they are responsible for "The Humor Code" - a bestselling book, blog & international research project. His research spans the fields of judgment and decision making, emotion, affect, and mood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stanford's Ron Howard, one of the fathers of decision analysis, explains how it's done.

In this wide-ranging discussion about the latest and next consumer and industrial applications for 3D printing, we examine (with Shapeway's Carine Carmy and a16z's Tom Rikert): how the software-driven ideal of product-market-fit may be achieved in ph...

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, and host of his own podcast "The Duncan Trussell Family Hour" available on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when the importance of access to things trumps the value of owning those same things? The end of ownership. From computer hardware, to houses, trucks, cars, and more, the notion of ownership is changing as software enables the matching o...

Jim Shockey is an outdoor writer, a professional big game outfitter and television producer for many hunting shows. Jim has hunted in more than forty countries and has taken nearly three-hundred known species. Check out the new season of "Uncharted" airing in 2015 on the Outdoor Channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices