Get on the Bus, Gus
Bus travel is suddenly hip. Polina Raygorodskaya, CEO of Wanderu, a ticketing site for ground travel.
“The Father of DSL”
John Cioffi helped invent broadband. Now CEO of ASSIA, he predicts the future of high-speed Internet.
Matt Howard Wants to Spend a Billion
Norwest Venture Partners has a $1.2b fund for security startups
Politicians Just Don’t Understand
Julie Samuels tries to explain Silicon Valley to those stuck inside the beltway.
Flickr’s Co-Founder
Stewart Butterfield - now CEO of Slack - joins the crowded effort to replace work email.
Putting Veterans to Work
Anand Kulkarni’s MobileWorks seeks to bring employment to veterans and other groups in need
Caterina Fake – web extra
The chairwoman of the board of Etsy discusses women in technology and female leadership
Hachette Job
Author Keith Raffel explains the peculiar fight between Amazon and book publisher Hachette
California’s “Yelp Bill”
AB 2365 would make it illegal for a business to prohibit customers from writing bad reviews. Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman explains.
Absolute Value
What happens when consumers have access to (nearly) perfect information on product and price? The father of consumer decision analysis Itamar Simonson.
Predictions for 2014
The founder of Crowd Companies joins reporters from USA Today and Fortune to speculate on this year’s hot tech stories.
Breaking into Big Box
Kicksend’s founder offers tips for entrepreneurs wishing to work with the likes of Walmart and Target.
Privacy Protection
A former Skype exec discusses Snapchat, Skype and his startup Perzo, a secure messaging service.
Meet the Tea-EO
Honest Tea CEO Seth Goldman creates a company because he’s thirsty – then sells it to Coca Cola.
What’s Venture Capital?
Australian entrepreneur Melanie Perkins didn’t know what venture capital was until she started her second successful company.
Watching Glendale High
A southern California school district hires a private company to keep an eye on students’ Twitter and Facebook feeds.
Scanadu
Walter De Brouwer is an inventor, futurist and Belgian knight. He wanted to raise $100,000 for his latest project. He raised $1.5 million in one ...
Walter De Brouwer
Quentin Hardy of the New York Times and JP Mangalindan of Fortune continue their interview with Walter De Brouwer.
Mars Rover Driver
Scott Maxwell’s other car is a $1 billion nuclear-powered, laser-armed space probe.
Bringing Government Data Online
Yelp provides health scores next to restaurant reviews. Accela makes that possible. CEO Maury Blackman.
Nicest Venture Capitalist Ever
Lightspeed’s John Vrionis hands out money to young entrepreneurs, with no strings attached.
Jai Singh – America’s Top Newsman
Yahoo News has more readers than the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Jai Singh is editor-in-chief.
Sevenly
Sevenly.org sells items for seven days and contributes seven dollars to charity for each sale. The business of doing well by doing good.
Point, Click, Bang
TrackingPoint firearms CEO Jason Schauble on a rife which can hit any target at 1,000 yards.
Brother, can you spare a million?
Silicon Valley's wealthiest contribute more to distant charities than to local needy. Alexa Culwell of Philanthropy Futures.
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.
Posse CEO Rebekah Campbell
Former rock band manager turned start-up entrepreneur. Rebekah Campbell of Posse.
A Venture Capitalist Goes to Prison
(But he's allowed to leave.) Chris Redlitz creates The Last Mile program to teach business skills to San Quentin inmates.
What It’s Like to Get Out of Prison
Heracio Harts says the first thing he noticed after release: everyone stares at their smart phones all the time.
Electric Car Prices Plunge
Manufacturers slash prices on electric vehicles. GM’s Dave Barthmuss sells us a Chevy Spark EV.
100 Entrepreneurs in a Metal Tube
British Airways will recruit 100 of Silicon Valley’s top minds to a meeting in the sky.
The Battle for Talent
YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse on perks and job satisfaction. Plus: considering a company name change. BoxShareSyncDrop?
Don’t Fight in the iOS Playground
Want your app to stand out? Try writing for Kindle or Glass, says uTest’s Matt Johnston
Sebastian Thrun
Can online classes save our suffering university system? Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun.
Sebastian Thrun Part 2
Thrun - "one of the smartest people alive" - is one of the brains behind Google Glass, Google Street View and the driverless car.
Guy Kawasaki
The former Apple evangelist starts advocating Google's Android (gasp!). He's also pushing his 12th book.
Lyft Founder John Zimmer
The pink mustached startup escapes a cease and desist letter and expands into Los Angeles.
Enhance That!
Security cameras finally get (nearly) as good as they are on TV crime dramas. Axis Communications’ Fredrik Nilsson.
Gamification
Consumers love rewards, from ruby status to Foursquare check-ins. Dopamine CEO Gabe Zichermann.
The Traitorous Eight
Filmmaker Randall MacLowry’s documentary “Silicon Valley” traces the origins of the chip industry to its rebellious roots.
Where’s the Love for Apple and Facebook?
Investors abandon two companies with decent earnings. Expert commentary from Santa Clara University’s Bob Hendershott.
The Viral Video Manifesto
YouTube star Stephen Voltz (Diet Coke and Mentos) explains the secrets behind making a viral video.
Virgin America
How can a business offer more than its competitors for the same price? Virgin America vice president Luanne Calvert.
Virgin America Part 2
Charge for first-run movies in the seatback? Acceptable. Charge for a pillow? No way. How airlines make extra money.
David Selinger
The busy Christmas shopping season extends beyond Christmas! The CEO of RichRelevance on the new era of ecommerce.
Ep 150 Redfin CEO
Homeowners love Redfin. Real estate agents? Not so much. Real estate has been revolutionized.
Ep 149 High Tech Policing
Startup Nixle works with 4,500 police agencies - including LAPD - to notify neighbors of danger.
Ep 149 The Economy is Angry
Is the economy a speeding train? A sick patient? The way media and politicians use metaphor.
Ep 146 Tweeting for the First Time
A financial services company prohibited their employees from using social media - until now.
Ep 110 Tiffany Shlain
The creator of the Webby Awards discusses her new film "Connected" and the loss of her brain surgeon father.
Ep 110 The Zynga Conundrum
Farhad Manjoo wonders if startups which depend on other people's platforms can survive.
