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Ep 142 Tina Seelig on Creativity

Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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Ep 142 Loans Online

Venture capitalists examine the business model set by corner paycheck loans stores.

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Ep 144 Double Robotics

David Cann’s robot has been described as a Segway Scooter for iPad.

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Ep 144 Paid to Leave School

Dylan Field accepted $100,000 to leave the Ivy League.

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Ep 144 Brad Garlinghouse

The CEO of YouSendIt tries to shed his peanut butter past.

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Ep 149 The Economy is Angry

Is the economy a speeding train? A sick patient? The way media and politicians use metaphor.

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ep 149 Kerri Byron

Mythbuster Kari Byron on the show’s new museum exhibit and blowing stuff up.

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Ep 149 High Tech Policing

Startup Nixle works with 4,500 police agencies – including LAPD – to notify neighbors of danger.

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Ep 157 Game of Thrones

The Economist’s Martin Giles compares high tech to the popular HBO show.

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Ep 157 FTC Cracks Down

Most children’s apps violate privacy.  Details from Lookout CTO Kevin Mahaffey.

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Ep 157 Are You Being Served?

BMC Software creates iPad app MyIT, making fixing your email as easy as ordering lunch.

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Ep 157 Dead Zeppelin

The helium crisis and loss of a key sponsor grounds America’s only zeppelin.

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Central China Television

We welcome a new freelance reporter, Mark Niu of CCTV

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Rebooting the Tech Museum

How do you exhibit innovation in the most innovative region in the world?  Tech Museum president Tim Ritchie.  

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Po Bronson’s Finger Theory

Bronson (“Nudist on the Late Shift, Top Dog”) walks careful path defining gender traits and success.  

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The “Twitter Tax Break”

San Francisco lures big name companies into the Tenderloin by cutting payroll taxes.  Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane.

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Posse CEO Rebekah Campbell

Former rock band manager turned start-up entrepreneur. Rebekah Campbell of Posse.

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Carried Interest – Lemonade Style

We use a lemonade stand to illustrate carried interest and why the super-rich pay less in tax than you do.

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Brother, can you spare a million?

Silicon Valley’s wealthiest contribute more to distant charities than to local needy. Alexa Culwell of Philanthropy Futures.

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Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher

Ooyala helps organizations like Comedy Central and The Pac12 stream more than a billion videos per month.

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