Hsu Untied
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsA podcast hosted by Richard Hsu
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Tony Robbins, #1 Life and Business Strategist, Best Selling Author
February 01, 2019 15:20 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBToday, my guest is Tony Robbins, Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author, Philanthropist and the nation’s #1 Life and Business Strategist. The author of six internationally bestselling books, including the recent New York Times #1 best-seller Money: Master the Game and Unshakeable, Tony has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his audio, video and life training programs. He created the #1 personal and professional development program of all time, and more than 4 million ...
Steve (“Woz”) Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple
January 10, 2019 09:41 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBToday, my guest is Steve (“Woz”) Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer with the late Steve Jobs in 1976. A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Woz has been involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, including providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology and being the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Woz also served as Chi...
Mark Cuban, Shark Tank Investor, Entrepreneur
December 01, 2018 09:06 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBToday, my guest is Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, investor on Shark Tank and Founder & CEO of Cyber Dust. Cyber Dust is a mobile app which allows person-to-person communication without any track record or history, thereby creating a safe and secure environment for honest and personal communication. Mark took time from his extremely busy schedule to talk about his creation and the widespread adoption of this terrific product.
Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful”), Shark Tank Host
November 01, 2018 18:35 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBToday, my guest is Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful”), the Co-Host of Shark Tank, Entrepreneur and Investor. In 1993, he launched The Learning Company, which developed software that helped kids with reading and math. Six years later, he sold it to Mattel for 3.7 billion dollars, one of the largest tech deals in Canadian history. As an “Eco-preneur,” Kevin specializes in investments that make money–and are environmentally friendly. In 2003, he co-founded Storage Now, Canada’s leading develo...
Phil Rosenthal, TV Producer and Writer
October 15, 2018 17:14 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBToday, my guest is Phil Rosenthal, a television writer and producer who is best known as the creator, writer, and executive producer of the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, whom I met at a live event at The Battery in San Francisco. In 1995, Phil created the hit CBS comedy, Everybody Loves Raymond and was the Showrunner/Executive Producer for all nine years of the show’s very successful run, which ended in 2005. During its original run, Everybody Loves Raymond was nominated for over 70 Emmy aw...
Steve Case, Former CEO of AOL, Founder of Revolution
October 01, 2018 18:03 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBToday, my guest is Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution, and one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. Steve’s entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steve’s leadership, AOL became the world’s largest and most valuable internet company, driving...
John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet (Google)
September 25, 2018 14:27 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBToday, my guest is Professor John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet (Google), Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford, President Emeritus of Stanford University, Co-Founder of MIPS Computer Systems and Author of Leadership Matters. A pioneer in computer architecture, John joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. He cofounded MIPS Computer Systems in 1984 and Atheros Communications in 1998 where he served as Chair of the Board unt...
Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch (Caroll Spinney)
September 20, 2018 08:29 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBToday, my guest is Caroll Spinney, who has performed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street since the show’s inception in 1969, after meeting Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets. Spinney has been honored with 4 Daytime Emmy Awards and 2 Grammy Awards and has received both a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Library of Congress’ Living Legend award. Caroll Spinney is the author of The Wisdom of Big Bird and was the subject of the critically acclaimed […]
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Legal Analyst and Author
September 11, 2018 05:26 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MBToday, my guest is Jeffrey Toobin, Senior Legal Analyst at CNN, staff writer at the New Yorker and best selling author of The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson; A Vast Conspiracy: the Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; Too Close to Call: the Thirty-Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election; The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court; The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court; and most recently, American Heiress: […]
Jim Collins, Author of “Built to Last” and “Good to Great”
September 01, 2018 23:19 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBToday, my guest is Jim Collins, Author of the #1 best selling book Good to Great, which examines why some companies and leaders make the leap to superior results, along with the enduring classic Built to Last, which explores how some leaders build companies that remain visionary for generations. Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management labo...
Scott Adams, Creator of Dilbert
August 20, 2018 12:05 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBToday, my guest is Scott Adams, the creator of the world famous Dilbert cartoon strip. After working at Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell, Adams entertained himself during boring meetings by drawing cartoons of his coworkers and bosses and a bespectacled character named Dilbert emerged from the doodles. Today, Adams devotes his time to Dilbert, including speaking, writing, doing interviews, designing licensed products and answering hundreds of e-mail messages per day. Dilbert is publis...
Ben Stein, Economist, TV Show Host, Comedian, Writer
August 01, 2018 23:41 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBToday, my guest is Ben Stein, economist, movie actor, author, novelist, screenwriter, law school professor, television show host and comedian. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School, Ben never had any aspirations to be a lawyer; but instead stumbled into a series of jobs that ultimately led to him to serving in the Nixon and Ford administrations and achieving overnight fame in the iconic movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ben was kind enough to take time from his busy speaking […]
Laura Hillenbrand, Author of “Unbroken” and “Seabiscuit”
July 21, 2018 00:29 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBToday, my guest is Laura Hillenbrand, author of the best selling books, Unbroken and Seabiscuit. Unbroken is the absolutely amazing story of Louie Zamperini, an Olympic class runner who was shot down from an airplane in World War II over the Pacific Ocean and somehow managed to survive on a life raft for 47 days — only to be captured by the Japanese and tortured as a POW for 2 years before being released. His story — and survival — […]
Roy Firestone, Emmy Award winning Interviewer
July 11, 2018 03:46 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBToday, my guest is Roy Firestone, a seven-time Emmy Award-winning and seven-time cable ACE Award-winning host, interviewer, narrator, writer, and producer. As the ground-breaking, original host of ESPN’s legendary Up Close, Up Close Classic and Up Close Primetime, Roy has interviewed more than 5,000 athletes, musicians, actors and political figures, as well as scores of writers and filmmakers. Critically acclaimed as a performer, monologist, humorist, musician and impressionist, Roy is one o...
Tim Draper, Venture Capitalist
July 01, 2018 09:47 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBToday, my guest is Tim Draper*, the founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (now DFJ) and also the school, Draper University. Tim is a third generation venture capitalist and founded Draper Associates in 1985, which when joined by John Fisher and Steve Jurvetson became the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). In 2012, Tim founded Draper University to teach entrepreneurship through hands-on training, an innovative curriculum ...
Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist and TED Speaker
June 20, 2018 10:07 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBToday, my guest is Adam Grant, one of Wharton’s top-rated professors, 2 time TED Speaker and best selling New York Times author on work and psychology. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers, the 100 most creative people in business, the 40 best business professors under 40, and one of Malcolm Gladwell’s favorite thinkers. Adam is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Originals which explores how individuals champion new ideas and le...
Laszlo Bock, Founder & CEO of Humu, Author of “Work Rules!”
June 11, 2018 06:09 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBToday, my guest is Laszlo Bock, CEO & Founder of Humu and Best-Selling Author of Work Rules!. Laszlo’s first book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 20 languages and was named among the Best Business Books of the Year (The Economist), Top 10 Creative Leadership Books of the Year (Forbes), Top 10 Business Books of the Year (Amazon.com) and #1 Best Translated Book in Japan (Association of Japanese Publishers […]
John Paul Dejoria, Billionaire Entrepreneur
June 01, 2018 22:24 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBToday, my guest is John Paul DeJoria, a Greek-Italian-American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company. He is the founder of numerous other companies and businesses, including Aubio Life Sciences, and has appeared as a celebrity guest investor on the hit television series Shark Tank.
Daniel James Brown, Author of “The Boys in the Boat”
May 20, 2018 09:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBToday, my guest is Daniel James Brown, author of the New York Times best selling book The Boys in the Boat, a story about 9 working class boys who became the 1936 U.S. Men’s Olympic gold medal winning rowing team. With a team composed of the sons of blue collar workers and led by Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast […]
Heidi Roizen, Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist
May 10, 2018 08:42 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBToday, my guest is Heidi Roizen, an Operating Partner with the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) where she provides strategic advice to the firm’s portfolio companies, manages the internal services team and helps to identify new investment opportunities. Heidi was the co-founder and CEO of T/Maker Company, a developer and publisher of consumer software, which was acquired by Deluxe Corporation in 1994. Heidi has also been the VP of World Wide Developer Relations for Apple Com...
Jay Bilas, ESPN Broadcaster and Courtside Analyst
May 01, 2018 14:42 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBToday, my guest is Jay Bilas, an attorney at Moore & Van Allen who is also an Emmy nominated basketball analyst who provides courtside and studio commentary for ESPN and CBS Sports. A four-year starter at Duke under Mike Krzyzewski, he helped lead Duke to the NCAA Final Four and National Championship Game. After playing professional basketball, Jay went back to Duke as an assistant coach and won two National Championships while simultaneously attending Duke Law School. Jay took time from […]
Tony Horton, Creator of P90x Fitness Series
April 21, 2018 02:12 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBToday, my guest is Tony Horton, a fitness expert and creator of the best-selling fitness series: P90X, P90X2, P90X3, and Ten Minute Trainer, and most recently his military inspired workout, 22 Minute Hard Corps. Tony is a renowned motivational speaker and the author of best-selling books Bring It, Crush It! and his latest, The Big Picture. Horton began his fitness career by becoming the personal trainer of several celebrities including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Billy Idol and Annie Lenno...
Geoffrey Moore, Author of “Crossing the Chasm”
April 10, 2018 07:18 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBToday, my guest is Geoffrey Moore, an author, speaker, and advisor who wrote the groundbreaking book Crossing the Chasm in 1991. Since then, Geoff’s other best selling business books include Zone to Win, Escape Velocity, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Faultline and Dealing with Darwin. Geoff began his management consulting career at Regis McKenna Inc, and then started 3 firms: The Chasm Group, Chasm Institute and TCG Advisors. Today, he splits his time as a Venture Part...
Will Shortz, NY Times Crossword Puzzle Editor
April 02, 2018 04:33 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBToday, my guest is Will Shortz (aka the “Puzzle Master“), Editor of the New York Times Crossword Puzzles, and star of WordPlay (see trailer below), one of my favorite movies. Some may know that he graduated from the University of Virginia Law School but probably not many know that he almost dropped out after his first semester and that his favorite class was intellectual property! Listed as one of the 30 most famous people with law degrees, Will was gracious enough to join […]
Guy Kawasaki, former Apple Evangelist
March 20, 2018 19:48 - 7 minutes - 3.62 MBToday, my guest is Guy Kawasaki, the Chief Evangelist of Canva, an online, graphics-design service, Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, former Chief Evangelist of Apple, and the author of several best selling books on startups including The Art of the Start 2.0. Although my guests are normally lawyers, most people do not realize that Guy actually did attend law school for about 10 days. I first met Guy when he started Garage with the late founder of Venture Law Group, Craig […]
Dan Ariely, Behavioral Economist and TED Speaker
March 10, 2018 08:12 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBToday, my guest is Dan Ariely, Ph.D., who is a Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight and co-founder of BEworks. Ariely’s research and writing lies between psychology and economics, focusing on how people behave and make decisions. Ariely’s TED talks have been watched nearly 10 million times and he is the author of several best selling books including Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes our Motivations; Irrationally...
James B. Stewart, Author of “Den of Thieves”
March 02, 2018 01:33 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBToday, my guest is James Stewart, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, who wrote many best selling books, including Den of Thieves and Disney War. A graduate of Harvard Law School and former Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, he began his writing career at the American Lawyer in 1979. He wrote a well known book on the nation’s elite law firms called The Partners before writing his New York Times best-seller Den of Thieves on Wall Street arbitrager Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. His 2005 bo...
Original Siri Voice (Susan Bennett)
February 20, 2018 19:22 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MBToday, my guest is Susan Bennett, a voice-over artist who is best known for being the female American voice of Apple’s “Siri” when the service was first introduced on the iPhone 4S. In June 2005, the software company Nuance Communications was looking for someone to be the voice for speech construction and selected Bennett, who recorded phrases and sentences which were then concatenated into the various words and sentences used in the Siri voice. Bennett’s career began in 1974 and has record...
Robert Cialdini, Author of “Influence” and “Pre-Suasion”
February 10, 2018 08:22 - 25 minutes - 23 MBToday, my guest is Dr. Robert Cialdini*, a renowned speaker and author of the iconic book “Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion” and President & CEO of Influence at Work, which focuses on ethical influence training. His book Influence has sold over 3 million copies, is a New York Times Bestseller and has been published in over 30 languages. Charlie Munger has said “Robert Cialdini has had a greater impact on my thinking on this topic [Influence] than any other scientist…” His latest boo...
Scott Turow, Author of “One L” and NYTimes Best Selling Author
February 02, 2018 00:09 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBToday, my guest is Scott Turow, a lawyer and author of the best selling book One L about his experience as a first year student at Harvard Law School; as well as the author of ten best-selling works of fiction, including his first novel Presumed Innocent, which was made into a movie with Academy Award Nominee Harrison Ford. Originally from Chicago, Scott has a degree from Amherst College and taught creative writing at Stanford as the E. H. Jones Lecturer before entering Harvard Law […]
Daniel Pink, NYTimes Best Selling Author and TV Show Host
January 21, 2018 05:25 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBToday, my guest is Daniel Pink. Most people know Daniel Pink as one of the most popular TED speakers of all time (see video below), New York Times best selling author of A Whole New Mind, Drive and To Sell is Human, and host of the National Geographic TV show Crowd Control. But what is less known is that Dan actually went to law school (attended Columbia and graduated from Yale) and he discusses how law school shaped his career, but not in […]
Kurt Eichenwald, NY Times Best Selling Author
January 11, 2018 03:58 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBToday, my guest is Kurt Eichenwald, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a New York Times bestselling author of The Informant, Serpent on the Rock, Conspiracy of Fools and 500 Days. He previously worked for twenty years at the Times as a investigative reporter, columnist and senior writer. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2000 and 2002. His second book, The Informant, was called “one of the best nonfiction b...
Angela Duckworth, Author of “Grit”
January 01, 2018 18:45 - 19 minutes - 18 MBToday, my guest is Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, a #1 New York Times best seller and TED Speaker (which is among the most-viewed of all time). She is also the Founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development. She is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, faculty co-director of the Penn-Wharton Behavior Change For...
Chip Heath, NYTimes Best Selling Author
December 21, 2017 02:23 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBToday, my guest is Chip Heath, a Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business who teaches courses on business strategy and organizational behavior. He is the co-author (along with his brother, Dan Heath) of four books. Their latest book (an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller) The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact was published in the Fall of 2017. Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work was published in spring o...
Jason Calacanis, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
December 10, 2017 08:21 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBToday, my guest is Jason Calacanis, a successful entrepreneur and angel investor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Calacanis’s first success was starting Weblogs, Inc., which was sold to AOL in 2005. Since then, he has been an angel investor in numerous successful entrepreneurs and companies such as Travis Kalanick at Uber, Thumbtack, Tumblr and many others. Jason is the CEO of Inside.com, has been a guest on Charlie Rose, has his own podcast This Week in Startups, his own entrepreneurs startup f...
Simon Sinek, Author of “Start With Why” and TED Speaker
December 01, 2017 08:07 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBToday, my guest is Simon Sinek, an author, speaker, and consultant who writes on leadership and management. He is best known for his brilliant and ground breaking TED Talk entitled “How Great Leaders Inspire Action,” which explains why we are inspired by some people, leaders, messages and organizations over others and is the 3rd most viewed video on TED. Since then, he has written 3 books: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (2009), Leaders Eat Last: Why Some […]
Ray Lane, Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins
November 20, 2017 23:10 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBToday, my guest is Ray Lane, Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Before joining KPCB, Ray was president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation for 8 years leading Oracle from less than $1 billion in 1992 to more than $10 billion. Ray led Oracle’s business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services. Earlier in his career, Ray was a senior partner with Booz Allen Hamilton and division vice president with Elec...
Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School Professor and Author
November 11, 2017 05:07 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBToday my guest is Professor Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. Prof. Sunstein graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, after which he clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall on the US Supreme Court. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is also the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. Professor Sunstein ...
Bill Gross, Chairman & Founder of Idealab
November 01, 2017 22:01 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBToday, my guest is Bill Gross, Caltech Trustee and fellow Caltech Alumni, Chairman and Founder of Idealab. Bill started his first company in grade school selling candy bars at the bus stop (his version of the lemonade stand) and now starts about 8-10 new companies every year. He comes up with new business ideas almost daily and he says the biggest limitation with starting companies is not time or money, it’s finding the right people — and having the right timing! […]
Larry Sonsini, Chairman of Wilson Sonsini
October 20, 2017 18:33 - 15 minutes - 5 MBToday, my guest is Larry Sonsini, Chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. After graduating from Boalt Hall (Berkeley Law) in 1966, Larry decided to join John Wilson to work with Silicon Valley startups and has since gained international recognition for his expertise in the areas of corporate law, corporate governance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition to having served as CEO as well as Chairman for more than 35 years, Larry served as Chairman of the New York Stock […]
Leigh Steinberg, Professional Sports Agent
October 10, 2017 10:03 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBToday, my guest is Leigh Steinberg, a legendary sports agent and lawyer, who has represented many of the most successful athletes in professional sports, including the #1 overall pick in the NFL draft 8 times as well as over 60 first round picks. During his career, Leigh has secured over $3 billion for his 300+ pro athlete clients and directed more than $750 million to various charities, receiving commendations from Congress, cities, states and Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Leigh’s his...
David Pogue, Tech Reviewer at Yahoo! Finance
October 01, 2017 20:27 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBToday, my guest is David Pogue, who is the tech critic for Yahoo! Finance after having spent 13 years as the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. He’s also a monthly columnist for Scientific American and host of science shows on PBS’s NOVA and has been a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning since 2002. With over 3 million books in print, David is also one of the world’s bestselling authors of for Dummies series. In 1999, he launched his own series of […]
Tim O’Reilly, Founder & CEO of O’Reilly Media
September 20, 2017 21:21 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBToday, my guest is Tim O’Reilly, the Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc. which delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on and in 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the “dot com” bust, but a new model for the […]
Jerry Kaplan, Founder of GO and Author of “Startup”
September 10, 2017 11:17 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBToday, my guest is Jerry Kaplan, a renowned Silicon Valley veteran who has founded several storied technology companies over his 35-year career, two of which became public companies. Jerry is probably best known for his key role in defining the tablet computer industry as the Founder and CEO of GO Corporation in 1987 and as author of the best selling book Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure (1994). After GO, Jerry co-founded Onsale, Inc., the world’s first Internet auction website, which was...
Scott McGrew, NBC News Anchor and Host of Press:Here
September 01, 2017 18:41 - 24 minutes - 22 MBToday, my guest is Scott McGrew, NBC News Anchor and Host of Press:Here, a weekly roundtable featuring world class technology reporters in conversation with Silicon Valley CEOs. Press:Here airs on NBC Bay Area Sunday mornings at 9am right after Meet the Press and joining Scott each week is a team of contributors including reporters from the BBC, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed as as “Meet the Press for Entrepreneurs,” the show is broadcast Sunda...
Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari
August 21, 2017 02:44 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBToday, my guest is Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and engineer who is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater. Over the past four decades, he has founded numerous companies, including Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first digital navigation system; ByVideo, the first online ordering system; and uWink, the first touchscreen menu ordering and entertainment system. His newest company is Brainrus...
Jason Zweig, Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
August 10, 2017 09:27 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBToday, my guest is Jason Zweig*, a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of several books, including The Devil’s Financial Dictionary. He is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.” Inspired by Ambrose Bierce’s satirical masterpiece, The Devil’s Dictionary, Jason Zweig’s The Devil’s Financial Dictionary is a gloss...
Scott Shafer, KQED Host and Reporter
August 01, 2017 19:59 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBToday, my guest is Scott Shafer, Senior Editor of the California Politics and Government Desk at KQED, where he leads the editorial direction of a three-person team covering the state. Since joining KQED in 1998, Scott has covered stories for National Public Radio programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition Saturday and Weekend Edition Sunday and most recently, he hosted The California Report’s 30-minute weekly news magazine. Scott has earned numerous awards for...
Michelle Lee, Former Director of USPTO
July 20, 2017 14:22 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBToday, my guest is Michelle Lee, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the first woman to serve as Director of the USPTO. Prior to this role, Michelle was Deputy General Counsel for Google and Head of Patents and before that, a Partner at Fenwick & West, where she advised companies on intellectual property, licensing, litigation and corporate matters. Michelle was also a law clerk to Judge […]
Bill Neukom, Microsoft’s first GC; Past CEO of SF Giants
July 11, 2017 00:09 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBToday, my guest is Bill Neukom, Microsoft Corporation‘s first General Counsel, former CEO of the San Francisco Giants and the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the World Justice Project, an organization devoted to promoting the rule of law throughout the world. Bill was Microsoft’s lead lawyer for nearly 25 years managing its legal, government affairs, and philanthropic activities. He retired from Microsoft as its Executive Vice President of Law and Corporate affairs in 2002, served as C...