Danielle Newnham Podcast
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsInterviews with tech founders and innovators
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Avery Wang: Principal Research Scientist, Apple and Chief Scientist, Shazam
June 08, 2021 08:56 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBMy guest today is Avery Wang – co-founder and Chief Scientist at music recognition app Shazam and now Principal Research Scientist at Apple. Almost ten years ago, I conducted my very first interview for my first book and it was with the Shazam founders. The story of Shazam is one of pure innovation, foresight, and friendship. In 1999, Chris Barton dreamed of a seemingly impossible solution to ambient music recognition and created the team — including friend Dhiraj Mukherjee, classmate Phil...
David Byttow on The Rise and Fall of Secret
June 01, 2021 13:05 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBToday’s guest is David Byttow – a self-described engineer by trade and, very much an artist at heart. David is most famous for his role as co-founder of mobile app Secret which allowed people to share messages anonymously. Whilst there was a lot of hype around Secret when it officially launched in 2014 - lauded by the press and tech industry, and with the company raising millions of dollars within just a few months – the company abruptly closed down a little over a year later. Some of the...
Nolan Bushnell: Serial Tech Entrepreneur and Gaming Pioneer
May 25, 2021 10:33 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBToday’s guest is the legendary Nolan Bushnell – serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Atari and a pioneer of the video games industry. After an early interest in Engineering, Nolan went on to study Electrical Engineering before setting up Atari with Ted Dabney and Al Alcorn (I interviewed in Series 1, EP 8 - listen here). Atari experienced huge success with Pong which was one of the first computer games ever created but whilst it was hugely popular, Atari was born at a time when venture capita...
Rana el Kaliouby, Emotion AI Pioneer
May 18, 2021 10:29 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBToday’s guest is Rana el Kaliouby a pioneer in Emotion AI and, before I go any further, I wanted to say that this is one of the most honest, and authentic interviews I have ever conducted with a startup founder. Rana is co-founder and CEO of Affectiva - a software company that builds artificial intelligence that understands human emotions, and cognitive states and activities by analyzing facial and vocal expressions. The company was spun out of the MIT Media Lab with Rana and Professor Rosa...
Dan Bricklin on the Birth of the Spreadsheet
May 14, 2021 11:03 - 1 hour - 63 MBWelcome back to Series 2 of the Danielle Newnham Podcast. I am your host – Danielle Newnham and each week, I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human, stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. Today, I am thrilled to kick off Series 2 with Dan Bricklin – the man behind the very first electronic spreadsheet. Dan received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the MIT before coming up with the idea for VisiCalc whil...
Dan Bricklin
May 14, 2021 11:03 - 1 hour - 63 MBWelcome back to Series 2 of the Danielle Newnham Podcast. I am your host – Danielle Newnham and each week, I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human, stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. Today, I am thrilled to kick off Series 2 with Dan Bricklin – the man behind the very first electronic spreadsheet. Dan received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the MIT before coming up with the idea for VisiCalc whil...
Series 2 Trailer
May 12, 2021 18:03 - 1 minute - 1.64 MBAnd we're back! Great to have you here for more interviews with the tech founders and innovators behind the game-changing tech we use every day. Listen in to hear who we have coming up on this Series as well as why the telling of these stories is so important. This Series is hosted by Danielle Newnham and produced by Jolin Cheng. If you would like to sponsor this or another Series, please get in touch with Danielle Newnham via Twitter or LinkedIn.
Al Alcorn on Atari, Hiring Steve Jobs and The Incident with the Gun
April 05, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode, I speak to Al Alcorn – electrical engineer, Apple Fellow and the man who created Pong – one of the earliest arcade video games and one of the first video games to be commercially successful. Pong very much put Atari at the forefront of what became the gaming industry in the early 70s. Al is a great storyteller and we dive into the early days of Atari from hiring an 18 year-old intern called Steve Jobs and watching him and Woz start Apple - to getting Pong into the hands of ...
Al Alcorn
April 05, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIn this episode, I speak to Al Alcorn – electrical engineer, Apple Fellow and the man who created Pong – one of the earliest arcade video games and one of the first video games to be commercially successful. Pong very much put Atari at the forefront of what became the gaming industry in the early 70s. Al is a great storyteller and we dive into the early days of Atari from hiring an 18 year-old intern called Steve Jobs and watching him and Woz start Apple - to getting Pong into the hands of ...
Dr Catherine Breslin on Building Alexa to Be More Human
March 29, 2021 09:37 - 51 minutes - 47 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to AI and Machine Learning Scientist and founder of Kingfisher Labs - Dr Catherine Breslin. Catherine spent several years in academic research before she joined the Amazon Alexa team during its infancy back in 2014. Whilst there, Catherine managed the Cambridge-based AI Alexa team which were working on inventing foundational Machine Learning tech to build intelligent conversational interfaces for a myriad of devices, apps, languages and environments. The team also...
Catherine Breslin
March 29, 2021 09:37 - 51 minutes - 47 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to AI and Machine Learning Scientist and founder of Kingfisher Labs - Dr Catherine Breslin. Catherine spent several years in academic research before she joined the Amazon Alexa team during its infancy back in 2014. Whilst there, Catherine managed the Cambridge-based AI Alexa team which were working on inventing foundational Machine Learning tech to build intelligent conversational interfaces for a myriad of devices, apps, languages and environments. The team also...
Dhiraj Mukherjee
March 22, 2021 09:31 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam – the music recognition app which was started in London in 1999, and acquired by Apple in 2018 for a reported $400 million. The story of Shazam is one of pure innovation, foresight, and a twenty plus year friendship. In 1999, Chris Barton dreamed of a seemingly impossible solution to ambient music recognition and created the team — including friend Dhiraj Mukherjee, classmate Philip Inghelbrecht, and engineer Avery Wang —...
Dhiraj Mukherjee on The Early Days of Shazam
March 22, 2021 09:31 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam – the music recognition app which was started in London in 1999, and acquired by Apple in 2018 for a reported $400 million. The story of Shazam is one of pure innovation, foresight, and a twenty plus year friendship. In 1999, Chris Barton dreamed of a seemingly impossible solution to ambient music recognition and created the team — including friend Dhiraj Mukherjee, classmate Philip Inghelbrecht, and engineer Avery Wang —...
Jim McKelvey on How Square Beat Amazon
March 15, 2021 09:29 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Jim McKelvey – serial entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Square and author of The Innovation Stack. Jim is also the co-founder of LaunchCode, a non-profit which helps people learn to code and get hired and founder and CEO of Invisibly which aims to give consumers control over how their personal data is monetised by advertisers. He also serves as an Independent Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Jim is someone who has always had a lot goin...
Jim McKelvey
March 15, 2021 09:29 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Jim McKelvey – serial entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Square and author of The Innovation Stack. Jim is also the co-founder of LaunchCode, a non-profit which helps people learn to code and get hired and founder and CEO of Invisibly which aims to give consumers control over how their personal data is monetised by advertisers. He also serves as an Independent Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Jim is someone who has always had a lot goin...
Shellye Archambeau on Resilience and Her Career in Tech
March 08, 2021 08:12 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Shellye Archambeau – esteemed Silicon Valley leader and tech CEO. Shellye was one of Silicon Valley’s first African American female CEOs and pioneered a path in tech for others to follow. She started her career at IBM where she spent 15 years, ultimately leading its Asia-Pacific business for the public sector. Shellye later became the CEO of MetricStream in Palo Alto. She had joined tech company Zaplet which was going through some difficulties and was only m...
Shellye Archambeau
March 08, 2021 08:12 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak to Shellye Archambeau – esteemed Silicon Valley leader and tech CEO. Shellye was one of Silicon Valley’s first African American female CEOs and pioneered a path in tech for others to follow. She started her career at IBM where she spent 15 years, ultimately leading its Asia-Pacific business for the public sector. Shellye later became the CEO of MetricStream in Palo Alto. She had joined tech company Zaplet which was going through some difficulties and was only m...
Philip Rosedale on Second Life, Spatial Audio and the Metaverse
March 01, 2021 14:27 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBAs a child, Philip Rosedale dreamed of creating a fully-fledged virtual society and that’s exactly what he did with Second Life. Despite it being conceived many years before, Second Life was launched in 2003. Almost two decades later, and with one million active users and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of transactions, Second Life experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic as the world went into lockdown and more of us spent more time online. In this wonderfully wide-ranging con...
Philip Rosedale
March 01, 2021 14:27 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBAs a child, Philip Rosedale dreamed of creating a fully-fledged virtual society and that’s exactly what he did with Second Life. Despite it being conceived many years before, Second Life was launched in 2003. Almost two decades later, and with one million active users and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of transactions, Second Life experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic as the world went into lockdown and more of us spent more time online. In this wonderfully wide-ranging con...
Richard Browning - The Real Life Iron Man
February 24, 2021 22:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBRichard Browning has been dubbed the real-life Iron Man for his jet suit invention which allows him to fly like a Marvel superhero... but he is far more than that. Richard is an inspiring inventor, founder, engineer, ex-Royal Marines Reservist and author who is changing the paradigm in human flight. In this episode, we talk about Richard’s childhood and how his father’s premature death impacted Richard’s life and career trajectory. We also discuss how being in The Royal Marines made him a ...
Richard Browning
February 24, 2021 22:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBRichard Browning has been dubbed the real-life Iron Man for his jet suit invention which allows him to fly like a Marvel superhero... but he is far more than that. Richard is an inspiring inventor, founder, engineer, ex-Royal Marines Reservist and author who is changing the paradigm in human flight. In this episode, we talk about Richard’s childhood and how his father’s premature death impacted Richard’s life and career trajectory. We also discuss how being in The Royal Marines made him a ...
Andy Hertzfeld
February 21, 2021 07:53 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIn this episode, Andy Hertzfeld shares his inspiring story from childhood through to creating the Macintosh and on to General Magic including the highs and lows along the way. We discuss his career and friendship with Steve Jobs and what it takes to hold a seemingly impossible vision, build a pioneering team capable of achieving it and, most importantly, when and how best to execute. There are many great stories in this episode, and anecdotes of a pivotal time in tech history but, best of ...
Andy Hertzfeld on the Macintosh, Steve Jobs and General Magic
February 21, 2021 07:53 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBIn this episode, Andy Hertzfeld shares his inspiring story from childhood through to creating the Macintosh and on to General Magic including the highs and lows along the way. We discuss his career and friendship with Steve Jobs and what it takes to hold a seemingly impossible vision, build a pioneering team capable of achieving it and, most importantly, when and how best to execute. There are many great stories in this episode, and anecdotes of a pivotal time in tech history but, best of ...
Podcast Trailer
February 18, 2021 15:48 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MBIn this Series 1 trailer, I will introduce to you the fantastic guests I have coming up on my show, as well as explain more about what got me excited about the tech industry and why I am passionate about sharing the human stories of the inspiring founders and innovators behind the tech we use every day.