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Danielle Newnham Podcast

Danielle Newnham

Interviews with tech founders and innovators

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00:54:09

Nir Eyal: The Importance of Being Indistractable

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/08/03

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, Hooked in

00:49:52

Dr Robert Langer: The Most Cited Engineer in History

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/07/27

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 both the

00:53:11

Sarah Hamburg: Neuromorphic Computing

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/07/20

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 for a16z's

00:52:22

Ian Livingstone: Games Pioneer

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/07/13

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 industry. In

00:48:17

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

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/07/06

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 life.A deep

01:08:17

Matthew Stafford: What Makes a Great Founder?

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/06/29

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 capital and angel

00:57:39

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE REPLAY

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/06/23

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 at age 16

00:01:35

Series 10 Trailer

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/06/19

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 Haskell

00:34:38

AMA: Addiction, Networking and Irrational Fears

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/04/28

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 and in

00:49:00

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

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/04/21

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.As you

01:06:56

David Senra: Why Founders Rule the World

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/04/13

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 with

00:49:18

Kevin Kelly: The Evergreen Optimist

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/04/06

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 we mention

00:53:17

Deb Liu: PayPal, Facebook and The Billion Dollar...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/30

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, Deb got her

00:51:47

Peter Faulding: What Lies Beneath

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/23

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, helicopter

00:55:33

David Auerbach: Is Big Tech Out of Control?

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/17

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.We also

00:53:06

Mark Murdoch: The Magic of Music

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/10

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.We

00:01:57

Series 9 Trailer

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/09

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 Editor at

00:17:24

Women in Tech: Advice to Younger Selves Part II

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/08

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 OpenWater,

00:11:41

Series 8 - Advice To Younger Selves

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/03/05

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 trusting me

00:49:05

Andrew Zuckerman: Curiosity, Creativity and The Human...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/02/25

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 ZuckermanThe medium that he works in is almost secondary to the fact that he's a thinker and an intellectual first. David Meredith on Andrew ZuckermanToday’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 hyper-real

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