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This week Teja talks with Andrew from SF AppWorks. From their origins in a music creation startup, they’ve always been a force for positive change through technology. Andrew’s story is one of resilience, innovation, and a relentless commitment to improving lives. They also get into what your first year of Jiu-Jitsu looks like, anime deep-cuts, […]

This week we commemorate the 111th birthday of Alan Turing, widely recognized as the father of computer science. As a brilliant mathematician, logician, and codebreaker, Turing’s contributions have shaped the fabric of modern technology. A true renaissance man, his talents extended beyond the realms of academia with a 2 hours and 46 minutes marathon time. […]

This week, Teja talks with Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers, for our Founder to Founder series. They discuss the need to be hungry and communicative if you want to be an effective leader, the importance of hiring the best if you want the best, and how many parallels there are between sourcing […]

As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn’t pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments’ Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Read and Speak & Math. In This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Tyler talk about the implications it had for future toys, its importance […]

What happens when a hipster, a hustler, and a hacker come together to build a better way to process and serve up geospatial data? Ellipsis Drive has the answer, as we learn in this week’s Founder to Founder episode. Teja sits down with Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of the company, to talk […]

For a movie that only featured dinosaurs for 15 minutes, Jurassic Park had an outsized impact on the way CGI was used in film. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Regis talk about the graphics, the puppetry, and how movies today are almost too real to be real.

On this week’s Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA, a company that produces compostable, eco-friendly packaging. They talk about the complexities of creating a brand new product, how to grow across four continents, and how she bridged the gap between software and packaging to create something […]

While it may seem like the International Space Station has been around since the beginnings of space exploration, it was actually just a little over 24 years ago that it was built. And on This Week in Tech history, Abbey and Chris talk about the Space Shuttle Discovery’s trip to the ISS, making it the […]

On this week’s Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder of Ome Kitchen. They discuss her path from neurosurgery to kitchen hardware, the winding road to building and funding an amazing idea, and how an appearance on Shark Tank helped to build the brand to where it is today, […]

What began as one man’s dream after seeing a pizza with a slice missing out of it grew into nothing short of a cultural phenomenon. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Grey talk about Pac-Man’s introduction to the world, their favorite arcade games, and how Pac-Man changed the landscape of video games for […]

Season 4’s Founder to Founder series kicks off this week with an insightful, engaging, and incredibly entertaining conversation between Gun.io’s CEO and Co-founder, Teja Yenamandra, and Sleuth’s CEO and Co-founder, Dylan Etkin. After years spent honing his skills as the Jira architect for Atlassian, Dylan saw plenty of opportunities to improve the efficiency of engineering […]

The building that kicked off I.M. Pei’s career as a building architect also featured prominently in the city where two current staffers went to college. The NCAR Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado is the subject of This Week in Tech History, where Faith and Chris talk about the importance of the building, the design, and […]