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Danielle Newnham Podcast

Danielle Newnham

Interviews with tech founders and innovators

technology entrepreneurship

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00:51:00

Polina Marinova Pompliano on How to Succeed

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/02/16

Today's guest is Polina Marinova Pompliano, writer and founder of The Profile –a newsletter and media company that profiles the world’s most successful people from founders to athletes, actors to authors and many many more in between.Previously, Polina was at Fortune magazine as a journalist and editor where she wrote Term Sheet – a daily digest on businesses deals and the people behind them.Polina is also the author of Hidden Genius: The Secret Ways of Thinking That Power the World's Most

00:45:23

Jen Phan on The Creator Economy

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/02/09

Today’s guest is Jennifer Phan - co-founder of Passionfroot - a platform empowering creators to partner directly with brands and agencies to monetise their product and services, be it a podcast, a newsletter or YouTube channel.Born to immigrant parents, Jen started her career as VC investor before seeing a gap in the market for creators who are trying to earn money directly from their work. Passionfroot takes care of the admin and business side of earning a living from your work and helps to remove

01:00:50

Alvy Ray Smith: Founder of Pixar (REPLAY)

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/02/02

Dr Alvy Ray Smith is the co-founder of Pixar, a computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer graphics. After starting his career in academia, Alvy had an epiphany following a serious skiing accident. He decided to move to California to combine his two passions - art and computers - in a place where he felt something good was about to happen. Alvy was always a pioneer. From creating his first computer graphic in 1965, Alvy became an original member of the Computer Graphics Lab at the New

00:51:41

Michael Gibson on Peter Thiel and Starting a Renaissance

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/01/26

Today’s guest is Michael Gibson, co-founder of 1517 – a venture fund he started in June 2015 with Danielle Strachman which backs, and I quote, “dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists, at the earliest stages.”Prior to starting 1517, Michael worked with Peter Thiel, and alongside, Danielle Strachman, they ran The Thiel Fellowship for five years. For those who don’t know, The Thiel Fellowship was set up to fund students who were 22 or under, giving them a total of $100k over two years so

01:09:01

Dean Forbes: Homeless to Billion Euro Exits

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/01/18

Interview with Dean Forbes - hugely successful turnaround tech CEO who has led several companies to massively successful exits. But let’s go back in time. Dean experienced hardship growing up and his family were made homeless twice but Dean always had big aspirations. His first goal was to make money doing what he loved which was football and whilst he did get to play for a Premiership, the experience was short-lived and he was soon ushered into a soulless call centre where he honed his sales

00:51:08

Steve Furber: Reverse Engineering the Human Brain

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/01/12

Steve Furber is a seminal computer scientist, mathematician and hardware designer whose work includes the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor which can be found in over 100 billion devices today.Steve studied both Maths followed by a PhD in Aerodynamics at Cambridge University before joining Herman Hauser and Chris Curry at Acorn Computers. For the next decade, he would work with a first-class team of engineers and designers to revolutionise the home computer market before he

00:59:06

Tech Founders and Innovators: 2023 and Beyond

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2023/01/01

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.I wanted to come on here quickly to wish you all a fantastic 2023 and to thank you all for being part of this podcast journey with me. I appreciate everyone who has listened and shared their favourite episodes in 2022 – truly, I couldn’t do this without you all.I also wanted to thank the incredible guests I had on in 2022

00:58:59

Anne-Marie Imafidon: Child Prodigy to Tech Leader

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/11/18

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, 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 here in

00:45:38

Rony Abovitz on Magic Leap and Taking Bold Risks

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/11/10

Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz is a serial tech entrepreneur and visionary. He co-founded Mako Surgical in 2004 — a robotics company specialising in manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance technology utilised by hospitals worldwide. MAKO was acquired by Stryker Corporation in 2013 for $1.65 billion.Rony went on to found Magic Leap — a spatial computing company which envisaged a futuristic world, many years ahead of its time. Starting out of his garage in 2010, Rony worked on Magic Leap at

00:17:14

SHORTS | Dhiraj Mukherjee On Shazam's Startup Lessons

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/11/02

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 wanted to try something a little different today. I have been asked for a while now about doing shortened versions of podcast episodes so I thought I would test this out with some takeaway tips from the brilliant Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam turned investor.In this fourteen minute episode, Dhiraj talks me through four

00:44:09

John Maeda: A Life of Tech, Design and Computational...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/10/26

Today’s guest is John Maeda – famed artist, designer, technologist, author, ex MIT professor, and once President of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, among many other accolades - most recently as CTO at Everbridge.He completed his bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT where he would return to become Professor of Design and Computation and Head of Research. He also earned a PhD in Design and a Master’s in Business.In this wide-ranging

00:53:16

Chris Sheldrick: The Founder Taking on the World

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/10/18

Today’s guest is Chris Sheldrick, co-founder and CEO of what3words – the startup which is quite literally mapping the world.Chris Sheldrick grew up as a gifted musician who thought his music career was all mapped out but sadly, Chris suffers from a sleep disorder which saw him sever the very parts of his body required for such an illustrious career. Not deterred by this life-changing experience, Chris started a company that would later lead to founding what3words with his some of his best and

00:58:28

Donna Auguste: She Led the Newton Engineering Team...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/10/11

Today’s conversation is with Donna Auguste and I wanted to replay her episode from Series 2 because it’s actually Ada Lovelace Day today which is an international celebration of the achievements of women in STEM and Donna encompasses everything we are celebrating today. An incredible role model, Donna received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Berkeley before becoming the first African-American (man or woman) to enter the PhD program at Carnegie Mellon where she

01:04:47

Rick Smith: How Do We Stop School Shootings?

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/10/04

Something I don’t tell many people is that when I was seven years old, two of my school friends and their family were shot dead. As you can imagine, it has had a long-lasting impact on me and all those who had the privilege of knowing them.Fast forward all these years and one of my former guests Jimmy Soni was kind enough to introduce me to Rick Smith, founder of Taser now Axon - a company which uses technology to replace the use of guns.When I started my research, I immediately discovered that

00:47:22

Jack Butcher: One True Fan

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/09/27

Today’s guest is Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value, a media and product business that I like to say takes complex ideas and makes them digestible through visual design.He also sells incredible courses which helps others to learn, teach, build and sell their value more effectively. ‍‍Originally from the UK, Jack moved to NY to pursue his passion as a designer then, at the beginning of 2020 with very little money in the bank, his side project called Visualize Value took off.In this interview,

00:01:35

Series 7 Trailer

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/09/21

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day.If you are a new listener, welcome. If you are a long-time listener, welcome back and thank you, thank you for sticking with me. I am really excited about Series 7 because we have some truly fantastic guests who are really candid with me which makes for great conversations. They open up about their career and life

00:53:30

Deb Liu on PayPal, Facebook and Overcoming Imposter...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/07/19

Today’s guest is 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. 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 master’s in business at Stanford and

00:46:17

Timothy Armoo on How He Built and Sold His Business...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/07/05

What can I say about today’s guest? He started life in London before being sent to live with his grandmother in Ghana at a just a few months old. He was a young boy when he returned to live on a London council estate with his father and it was then that he said he realised that they were poor but that also his life thus far had not been down to his own doing. That he had found himself in these circumstances but he could also get himself out of them."At 19 years old, I said, I'm going to start this

00:42:53

Celebrating 50 Years of Atari with Nolan Bushnell...

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/06/27

50 years ago today, Atari was born! So I am celebrating with a REPLAY of Series 2 episode with the legendary Atari founder Nolan Bushnell – serial entrepreneur 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

00:52:51

Philip Rosedale: The Man in the Metaverse (REPLAY)

Danielle Newnham Podcast ·

2022/06/07

This is a re-released episode from Series 1 with Second Life founder and High Fidelity co-founder Philip Rosedale.As 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

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