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Danielle Newnham Podcast

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Chris Anderson: How To Make The Internet Better

March 08, 2024 10:28 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

Today’s episode is a special one as it is my very first LIVE recording of the podcast which took place last month with the one and only Chris Anderson of TED. Recorded at the stunning Kindred in London, it was such a special evening and a delight to have so many fans of the podcast and Chris in the audience. In this episode, we discuss Chris’ childhood, growing up with missionary parents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the huge professional peaks and lows of running a publishing company th...

Tamiko Thiel and The Connection Machine

February 01, 2024 19:51 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Today’s guest is Tamiko Thiel – lead product designer of The Connection Machine – a revolutionary massively parallel artificial intelligence supercomputer which was developed in the 1980s. Originally conceived by Danny Hillis from MIT’s artificial intelligence lab where he was studying under Marvin Minsky, Danny got an incredibly talented team together including Richard Feynman, Brewster Kale, Tamiko, and others to create what would become the fastest and most effective supercomputer of the ...

Stephen Wolfram: Reimagining Education, and Computational Thinking

January 18, 2024 12:44 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

Today’s guest is the one and only Stephen Wolfram - a physicist, mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Language, The Wolfram Physics Project and the author of bestselling A New Kind of Science among many other books. A visionary polymath, Stephen published his first scientific paper at age 15, received his PhD in theoretical physics soon after his 20th birthday and became the yo...

Riva Tez on Genius, Mania and The Impact of Cancel Culture

January 01, 2024 14:59 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Today’s guest is Riva Tez -  a philosopher, curious thinker, intellect, investor and one of my favourite people  on the internet.  She studied Philosophy at UCL before digging deeper into technology and engineering and starting the Berlin Singularity. She went on to co-found Permutation Ventures — an early stage VC fund which focused on AI startups and, she has also worked with Jim Keller at Intel as Senior Director for Strategic Technology Initiatives. Whilst at university, Riva started ...

Joe Macleod: How to Design Good Endings

December 28, 2023 16:53 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

Today’s guest is Joe Macleod – designer, founder and author, former Head of Design at the award-winning digital product studio Ustwo, which brought the world the hit Monument Valley game. At ustwo, Joe helped build a globally awarded team, working with the world’s favourite brands on the most pioneering of products but he now focuses his energy on product endings and improving that experience for consumers and has written two books on the subjects – Ends and Endineering which we discuss in ...

Startups: Europe vs US

December 21, 2023 15:10 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB

Today’s episode is going to be a little bit different as it is actually a podcast episode where I appeared as a guest as opposed to a host and I am sharing it here because I think you will find it useful.  The podcast is called Digital Europe: Now and Beyond which is about European tech entrepreneurship and innovation and is hosted by serial Spanish entrepreneur Pau Garcia-Mila. In the episode you’re about to listen Pau talks to myself and South American but Ireland-based founder Alejandro ...

Nicki Sprinz: Group MD of ustwo Studios

December 14, 2023 14:24 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

Today’s guest is Nicki Sprinz, co-founder of Ada’s List  (A digital global network of over 150,000+ women and non-binary in tech) and Group Managing Director of ustwo’s studios – London, Malmö, New York, Tokyo and Lisbon. For those who don’t know, ustwo is a digital product studio with top name clients such Google, Meta, DeepMind, Samsung, and Peloton to name a few. Ustwo games also created the Apple award-winning Monument Valley game. But do you know what is really unique about ustwo which...

Sean Dadashi: How AI Can Improve Our Mental Health

December 07, 2023 13:03 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

Today’s guest is Sean Dadashi, co-founder of Rosebud. Born to Iranian parents who emigrated to the US after the revolution in 1979, Sean grew up in Los Angeles and was on a path of studying mechanical engineering before he switched courses after a year to study Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science. He then became a CTO before starting his own company - Somatic Studios in 2016 – where he used his passion for both tech and wellbeing to experiment with ideas including a web app t...

Series 11 Recap: Best Moments

November 30, 2023 16:14 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB

Today, I wanted to close out Series 11 with a recap of the wonderful guests we have had on – from Mike Slade and James Vincent who both worked for many years with Steve Jobs, VC James Wise of Balderton Capital, Josh Dahn who set up a school with Elon Musk, pioneering tech entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, Kindred founder Anna Anderson, Google Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower and Syreeta Challinger who taught us about the importance of storytelling and how to cope after trauma. That’s ...

James Wise: Why The World Needs More Entrepreneurs

November 23, 2023 12:45 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Today’s guest is James Wise – a Partner at Balderton Capital and author of Start-Up Century: Why we're all becoming entrepreneurs - and how we can make it work for everyone, which we will discuss in today’s episode. James grew up in Manchester among a community of business owners and inspired by them has spent his career surrounded by, helping and investing in entrepreneurs.  Balderton Capital, where James is Partner, is a venture capital firm in London was one of the first to focus on inv...

Kelsey Hightower: From Sleeping in His Car to Distinguished Engineer, Google

November 16, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 63 MB

Today’s guest is Kelsey Hightower, a distinguished engineer and developer advocate at Google and speaker known for his work with Kubernetes, open source software and cloud computing. As a curious and motivated self-learner, Kelsey dropped out of College and taught himself the skills required to start his career as an independent contractor for BellSouth – a telecoms company in Atlanta helping the community to get online. From there, Kelsey set up his own business – an electronics store befo...

Josh Dahn: Building A School with Elon Musk (REPLAY)

November 09, 2023 11:47 - 1 hour - 57 MB

What does the future of education look like? This is a question I have pondered for the last ten years or so and today’s guest - Josh Dahn – has the answer.  Eight years ago, Josh Dahn was teaching Elon Musk’s kids at Mirman – a private school for highly gifted children in LA when Elon approached him about rethinking the traditional education model. Josh jumped at the opportunity and in today’s episode, Josh talks me through that first meeting with Elon and how they worked together to found...

James Vincent: My Time With Steve Jobs

November 02, 2023 08:35 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB

Today’s guest is James Vincent who spent eleven years working directly with Steve Jobs to help build Apple’s narrative for some of its hugely ground-breaking products including the iPod, iPhone, iTunes, App Store and iPad. He also founded and was CEO of Media Arts Lab which was a bespoke agency working exclusively for Apple and is host of Fast Company's Innovation in Leaders Podcast. A master storyteller, James is now Founder and CEO of FNDR - an agency which works with game changing entre...

Anna Anderson: Community, Grief and Giving Back

October 26, 2023 11:12 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Today’s guest is Anna Anderson, founder of Kindred – a co-working and events space in West London, beloved by founders and creatives alike. Anna Anderson spent her career in social work before founding Kindred in 2019 to help forge human connection between founders. Her goal with Kindred is to create a space that feels inclusive and provides fellow founders and small businesses with the community they need to thrive. In this conversation, we discuss all things community from how communitie...

Syreeta Challinger: How to Traverse Trauma

October 19, 2023 17:47 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Today, we’re doing things a little bit differently because I felt it was the right time to bring on Syreeta Challinger, a founder, a coach,  podcaster and an incredible human whom who I first interviewed five years ago when I had a company called F= which was all about empowering women and Syreeta had started MOSS – Moments of Sense and Style where she sold her beautiful products such as notebooks and candles, all heavily influenced by her story which she so graciously shares today. Syreeta...

Dame Stephanie Shirley: From Child Refugee to £2 Billion Business

October 12, 2023 14:41 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

Today’s guest is Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - a hugely successful tech entrepreneur and now philanthropist as well as author of her memoir, Let It Go. I actually recorded this interview back in 2016 for my book Female Innovators at Work and you can find the full interview on my YouTube channel, thanks to my friends at Bullet Media who filmed it. But now feels like a good time to release this episode on the podcast for several reasons, not least because Dame Stephanie turned 90 last mont...

Mike Slade: Remembering Steve Jobs

October 05, 2023 11:53 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

Today's guest is Mike Slade of Second Avenue Partners – an investor, advisor and seasoned storyteller who worked with Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Jobs. Mike started his career at Microsoft in 1983 and spent seven years in a variety of product marketing roles launching hugely successful products including Excel, Works and Microsoft Office. He then went to work at NeXT as VP of Marketing, reporting directly to Steve Jobs. Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder) then hired Mike as CEO of Starw...

Series 11 Trailer

October 04, 2023 13:15 - 1 minute - 1.45 MB

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game changing tech we use every day. I just wanted to come on here to say Series 11 launches tomorrow and I am so excited about the guests I have on this Series. We have Mike Slade who worked with Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Jobs as well as Sampriti Bhattacharyya who I first interviewed seven years ago for my book Female Innovators at Work. S...

Simon Peyton Jones: In Pursuit of Simplicity

August 30, 2023 17:10 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB

Today’s guest is Simon Peyton Jones – a hugely influential computer scientist who has spent his career researching the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. After a stint in academia, he joined Microsoft Research Cambridge (1998-2022) where he spent more than 20 years before becoming an Engineering Fellow at Epic Games last year. Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementatio...

Dr Mary Lou Jepsen: Curing Cancer, and Human Telepathy (REPLAY)

August 10, 2023 06:54 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

This is a REPLAY of last year's episode with Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen – serial entrepreneur, inventor, pioneer in VR, medical imaging and telepathic technology, former professor at MIT Media Lab and currently, founder of Openwater. Mary Lou spent many of her childhood years unwell before she was finally diagnosed with a brain tumour in her twenties. And going through that had a huge impact on her life as you might expect. For the many years she was quite literally dying, she decided she only wan...

Nir Eyal: The Importance of Being Indistractable

August 03, 2023 07:41 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind their work. Today’s guest is Nir Eyal - best-selling author, entrepreneur, investor and business consultant teaching about the intersection of psychology, technology and business. An American-Israeli immigrant, Nir co-founded and sold two tech companies before he started sharing the tricks of habit forming products that he had researched in his book,...

Dr Robert Langer: The Most Cited Engineer in History

July 27, 2023 13:14 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

Today’s guests is Dr Robert Langer – a chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor and the most cited engineer in history - specializing in the biotechnology fields of drug delivery systems and tissue engineering. He is also the co-founder of Moderna a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that focuses on RNA therapeutics, primarily mRNA vaccines which was used globally for Covid-19. Bob Langer has received over 200 major awards– one of just four individuals to have received bot...

Sarah Hamburg: Neuromorphic Computing

July 20, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB

Today’s guest is Sarah Hamburg – a cognitive neuroscientist and researcher currently working as a post-doctoral Neuromorphic AI Engineer in Developmental Robotics. Sarah is also a DeSci (decentralised science) advocate and organiser, heavily involved in the decentralised science (DeSci) space since early 2021. After working as a core member of an Open Science DAO, she published a letter in Nature to increase awareness of DeSci and was then commissioned to write a DeSci "explainer" article fo...

Ian Livingstone: Games Pioneer

July 13, 2023 13:10 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB

Today, my guest is Sir Ian Livingstone – games pioneer, entrepreneur and the bestselling author of the Fighting Fantasy book series. Widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry, Ian co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 with Steve Jackson, launching Dungeons & Dragons in Europe, Warhammer, White Dwarf, Citadel Miniatures, and the Games Workshop retail chain. Whilst he exited the company in 1991, he soon embarked on a hugely successful career in the video games indust...

Mohammad Al-Ubaydli: Physician, Founder, One In A Million

July 06, 2023 09:48 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

Today’s guest is Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli – a physician, programmer and founder of Patients Know Best. In this conversation, we talk about Mohammad’s upbringing from his family being exiled from Bahrain in the 1970s, to his childhood spent in the Yemen desert, Syria and Beirut during a civil war. On top of that, Mohammad suffers from a one a million genetic immune deficiency called Hyper IgM Syndrome which, had it not been for his mother’s astute diligence would have probably cost him his li...

Matthew Stafford: What Makes a Great Founder?

June 29, 2023 12:14 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

Today’s guest is Matthew Stafford – an investor and co-founder of 9 Others, a global community for founders, where once a month, ten entrepreneurs come together over dinner and help each other by answering this one question, “What keeps you up at night?” Matthew started 9 Others with Katie Lewis in 2011 and it’s now a global network of thousands of entrepreneurs in over 45+ cities around the world from London to Manchester, Karachi to Yemen. Matthew also works with startups, venture capita...

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE REPLAY

June 23, 2023 13:16 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is the co-founder of Stemettes, an award-winning social initiative focused on getting girls, young women and non-binary people excited about, and encouraged into STEM fields through mentoring, qualification academies and STEM clubs. But let’s go back a bit. Because to understand why Anne-Marie chose this path, you need to understand her life story. At age just 10 years-old, Anne-Marie got her GCSE’s in Maths and Computing –these are exams that are normally taken a...

Series 10 Trailer

June 19, 2023 12:51 - 1 minute - 1.45 MB

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. I know I probably say this every series but Series 10 might be my most favourite yet and I really can’t wait to share it with you! Upcoming guests this series include Simon Peyton Jones – Engineering Fellow at Epic Games, previously researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, and one of the designers behind the Haskel...

AMA: Addiction, Networking and Irrational Fears

April 28, 2023 17:34 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newnham podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. To see out Season 9, I thought I would do my second ever AMA. I do these because I want to be helpful and because I think it’s important for listeners to know me and understand where I am coming from and why I do the podcast. So I asked my listeners across social media for questions they would like me to answer...

Hana Walker-Brown: ADHD, Brain Injury and Living by Values

April 21, 2023 09:39 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MB

Today’s guest is Hana Walker Brown – Audio Documentary and Podcast Creator, a Composer, author and Creative Director. In this really open conversation, Hana discusses how ADHD has informed her career, the impact an adult diagnosis had on her life and we dig deep into her work researching CTE which if I say it right is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - a progressive and fatal brain disease associated with repeated traumatic brain injuries including concussions and repeated blows to the head...

David Senra: Why Founders Rule the World

April 13, 2023 14:07 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Today’s guest is David Senra, ex-founder host of  Founders podcast – one of my favourite podcasts where each week, David devours a biography of a founder and shares his favourite lessons with the world, whether it’s Charlie Munger, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Kobe Bryant, The Wright Brothers, Lucille Ball, Jay Z, Enzo Ferrari and many more! But David has a really interesting story himself and one we dive into today. We talk about his tough childhood and how his escape came through his obsession...

Kevin Kelly: The Evergreen Optimist

April 06, 2023 12:43 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB

This episode with Wired Founding Editor Kevin Kelly is one of my favourite episodes! His joie de vivre is infectious and I learned so much from his inspiring story and his fantastic new book Excellent Advice For Living which we talk about in this episode from which I know you will get a lot from too. But stepping back in time, Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review from 1984-1990 before he joined Wired in 1993 as its Founding Executive Editor alongside Louis Rossetto who ...

Deb Liu: PayPal, Facebook and The Billion Dollar Leader (REPLAY)

March 30, 2023 13:03 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

Today’s episode is with Deb Liu – CEO of Ancestry.com, the billion dollar genealogy company. Deb also serves on the Board of Intuit and is the co-founder of Women in Product.  This is a Replay of S6:E48. In this interview, Deb talks me through her personal and career journey from growing up in a small town where less than 1% of the community were Asian to how she overcame racism to become a VP at Facebook where she spent 12 years of her career. After studying Civil Engineering at Duke, De...

Peter Faulding: What Lies Beneath

March 23, 2023 07:30 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MB

Today’s guest is Peter Faulding - a world-leading confined space rescue and forensic search specialist. He has pioneered the use of side-scan sonar in forensic searches for missing persons underwater in the UK and is a world leader in underwater search techniques. He has assisted in the search in many cold cases and has located human remains and evidence that had gone undetected for years, in some of the most remote locations on land and underwater. Peter is a qualified commercial diver, hel...

David Auerbach: Is Big Tech Out of Control?

March 17, 2023 18:45 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB

Today's guest is David Auerbach, a former engineer at both Microsoft and Google and now a technologist, writer and author of two books – Bitwise: A Life in Code and his most recent book, Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. Today, we talk about David’s background in software engineering and what it was like to work at Microsoft on MSN Messenger and then at Google in the relatively early days of the tech giant’s gargantuan growth. W...

Mark Murdoch: The Magic of Music

March 10, 2023 16:47 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

Today’s guest is the incredible Mark Murdoch, founder of Mahogany a multi-faceted music company which is behind the hugely popular Mahogany Sessions on YouTube, famed for its live acoustic sessions with amazing singers in phenomenal locations that include artists fields, warehouses, cemeteries, churches. All these acoustic sessions are filmed with beautiful cinematography making the experience even more enthralling. I am not exaggerating when I say this channel got me through the pandemic. ...

Series 9 Trailer

March 09, 2023 16:39 - 1 minute - 1.79 MB

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind their game-changing work. I may have only just wrapped up series 8 but I am so excited about series 9 that I thought I would bring it forward so it will be launching imminently. And upcoming guests on this series include Mark Murdoch, the founder behind music channel Mahogany Sessions, author and engineer David Auerbach, Kevin Kelly who was the founding Executive E...

Women in Tech: Advice to Younger Selves Part II

March 08, 2023 15:49 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB

As it’s International Women’s Day, I wanted to do what we did last year and hand the episode over to some of the amazing women I have had on the show in the past year, and of course I will link to each of their original episodes  below so that you can check them out in full. In order of appearance in today’s show, we have the wonderful Cat Noone of Stark, Noor Shaker of X-Chem and Glamourous AI, Ayah Bdeir of LittleBits, Jane Metcalfe of Wired and Neo Life, Dr Mary-Lou Jepsen of Oculus and ...

Series 8 - Advice To Younger Selves

March 05, 2023 15:29 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

I wanted  to say a massive thank you for listening to Series 8 of the podcast and thank you to my wonderful guests Steve Furber, Dean Forbes, Michael Gibson, Jennifer Phan, Alvy Ray Smith, Polina Marinova Pompliano and Andrew Zuckerman. Since the beginning of this year, we have learned so much from these inspiring stories - from Steve Furber’s quest to reverse engineer the human brain to Dean Forbes journey from homelessness to billion euro exits. I am forever grateful to my guests for trus...

Andrew Zuckerman: Curiosity, Creativity and The Human Experience

February 25, 2023 09:16 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

I believe in pure intention. And if your intentions are pure, you're going to create something of value that people will connect with. Andrew Zuckerman The medium that he works in is almost secondary to the fact that he's a thinker and an intellectual first. David Meredith on Andrew Zuckerman Today’s guest is Andrew Zuckerman, a celebrated filmmaker, photographer, author, podcaster, founder who has worked with the likes of Apple and Puma. Andrew is best known for creating collections of h...

Polina Marinova Pompliano on How to Succeed

February 16, 2023 13:50 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MB

Today's guest is Polina Marinova Pompliano, writer and founder of The Profile –a  newsletter and media company that profiles the world’s most successful people from founders to athletes, actors to authors and many many more in between. Previously, Polina was at Fortune magazine as a journalist and editor where she wrote Term Sheet – a daily digest on businesses deals and the people behind them. Polina is also the author of Hidden Genius: The Secret Ways of Thinking That Power the World's M...

Jen Phan on The Creator Economy

February 09, 2023 14:29 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB

Today’s guest is Jennifer Phan - co-founder of Passionfroot - a platform empowering creators to partner directly with brands and agencies to monetise their product and services, be it a podcast, a newsletter or YouTube channel. Born to immigrant parents, Jen started her career as VC investor before seeing a gap in the market for creators who are trying to earn money directly from their work. Passionfroot takes care of the admin and business side of earning a living from your work and helps ...

Alvy Ray Smith: Founder of Pixar (REPLAY)

February 02, 2023 10:32 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Dr Alvy Ray Smith is the co-founder of Pixar, a computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer graphics.  After starting his career in academia, Alvy had an epiphany following a serious skiing accident. He decided to move to California to combine his two passions - art and computers - in a place where he felt something good was about to happen.  Alvy was always a pioneer. From creating his first computer graphic in 1965, Alvy became an original member of the Computer Graphics Lab ...

Michael Gibson on Peter Thiel and Starting a Renaissance

January 26, 2023 17:38 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MB

Today’s guest is Michael Gibson, co-founder of 1517 – a venture fund he started in June 2015 with Danielle Strachman which backs, and I quote, “dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists, at the earliest stages.” Prior to starting 1517, Michael worked with Peter Thiel, and alongside, Danielle Strachman, they ran The Thiel Fellowship for five years. For those who don’t know, The Thiel Fellowship was set up to fund students who were 22 or under, giving them a total of $100k over tw...

Dean Forbes: Homeless to Billion Euro Exits

January 18, 2023 11:54 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Interview with Dean Forbes - hugely successful turnaround tech CEO who has led several companies to massively successful exits.  But let’s go back in time. Dean experienced hardship growing up and his family were made homeless twice but Dean always had big aspirations. His first goal was to make money doing what he loved which was football and whilst he did get to play for a Premiership, the experience was short-lived and he was soon ushered into a soulless call centre where he honed his sa...

Steve Furber: Reverse Engineering the Human Brain

January 12, 2023 15:08 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MB

Steve Furber is a seminal computer scientist, mathematician and hardware designer whose work includes the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor which can be found in over 100 billion devices today. Steve studied both Maths followed by a PhD in Aerodynamics at Cambridge University before joining Herman Hauser and Chris Curry at Acorn Computers. For the next decade, he would work with a first-class team of engineers and designers to revolutionise the home computer market be...

Tech Founders and Innovators: 2023 and Beyond

January 01, 2023 13:43 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. I wanted to come on here quickly to wish you all a fantastic 2023 and to thank you all for being part of this podcast journey with me. I appreciate everyone who has listened and shared their favourite episodes in 2022 – truly, I couldn’t do this without you all. I also wanted to thank the incredible guests I ha...

Anne-Marie Imafidon: Child Prodigy to Tech Leader

November 18, 2022 13:19 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, co-founder of Stemettes an award-winning social initiative focused on getting girls, young women and non-binary people excited about, and encouraged into STEM fields through mentoring, qualification academies and STEM clubs. But let’s go back a bit. Because to understand why Anne-Marie chose this path, you need to understand her life story. At age just 10 years-old, Anne-Marie got her GCSE’s in Maths and Computing –these are exams that are normally taken at age 1...

Rony Abovitz on Magic Leap and Taking Bold Risks

November 10, 2022 13:03 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz is a serial tech entrepreneur and visionary. He co-founded Mako Surgical in 2004 — a robotics company specialising in manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance technology utilised by hospitals worldwide. MAKO was acquired by Stryker Corporation in 2013 for $1.65 billion. Rony went on to found Magic Leap — a spatial computing company which envisaged a futuristic world, many years ahead of its time. Starting out of his garage in 2010, Rony worked on Magic L...

SHORTS | Dhiraj Mukherjee On Shazam's Startup Lessons

November 02, 2022 20:08 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. I wanted to try something a little different today. I have been asked for a while now about doing shortened versions of podcast episodes so I thought I would test this out with some takeaway tips from the brilliant Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam turned investor. In this fourteen minute episode, Dhiraj talks me t...

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