Summary: David Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build …

Summary: Ken Norton is a partner at GV, Alphabets venture capital arm, but before that, he was a product manager at Google, where he led …

Summary: Matt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, …

Summary: I figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don’t, let’s just leave it at this: he’s about to …

Summary: John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we’ve already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. …

Summary: This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social …

Summary: Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own …

Summary: Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out …

Today we’re going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political …

Summary: Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory.” In the pantheon of cool people who made …