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Danielle Newnham Podcast

Danielle Newnham

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00:50:31

June Angelides: Founder Turned Investor

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2024/04/01

Today’s guest is June Angelides MBE – a former founder, turned VC. June grew up in Nigeria before coming to London to study Economics. She then joined Thomson Reuters working on the news desk, covering syndicated loans before she got a call to join Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) who were just starting up here in London. She joined a small team there, working on both the Venture Debt Team and Early Stage Banking where she started forging connections with early stage startups and founders.It wasn’t long

00:51:27

Chris Anderson: How To Make The Internet Better

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2024/03/08

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 through the

01:09:03

Tamiko Thiel and The Connection Machine

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2024/02/01

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 time

01:01:06

Stephen Wolfram: Reimagining Education, and...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2024/01/18

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 youngest

01:10:19

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

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2024/01/01

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 a toy shop in

01:06:41

Joe Macleod: How to Design Good Endings

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/12/28

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 today’s

00:47:29

Startups: Europe vs US

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/12/21

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 Gutierrez,

00:40:47

Nicki Sprinz: Group MD of ustwo Studios

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/12/14

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 was

00:43:54

Sean Dadashi: How AI Can Improve Our Mental Health

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/12/07

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 that

00:49:43

Series 11 Recap: Best Moments

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/11/30

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 something

00:53:41

James Wise: Why The World Needs More Entrepreneurs

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/11/23

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 investing in

01:08:48

Kelsey Hightower: From Sleeping in His Car to...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/11/16

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 before

01:02:13

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

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/11/09

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 the Ad

00:48:56

James Vincent: My Time With Steve Jobs

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/11/02

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 entrepreneurs

00:50:50

Anna Anderson: Community, Grief and Giving Back

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/10/26

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 communities have

01:00:51

Syreeta Challinger: How to Traverse Trauma

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/10/19

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 grew up

00:39:39

Dame Stephanie Shirley: From Child Refugee to £2...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/10/12

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 month and it

01:16:02

Mike Slade: Remembering Steve Jobs

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/10/05

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 Starwave which

00:54:14

Simon Peyton Jones: In Pursuit of Simplicity

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/08/30

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 implementation, and

00:52:29

Dr Mary Lou Jepsen: Curing Cancer, and Human...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/08/10

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 wanted to

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