180. Part 2 With John McCrea

Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.Strik ... Show More

Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us was such a standard bearer of the web 2.0 era. Of user generated content. Of sharing long before Facebook or Twitter or any of that. ... Show More

Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it really is funny to look back and think ab ... Show More

In the final part of the privacy series, Jefferson Graham takes a good hard look at the heroes and villains of tech. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

In part 2 of Jefferson Graham's series about how tech firms track us, today the spotlight is on Facebook.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 

Marcel Samek, the chief technology officer for Wevr, talks about how the solitary experience of virtual reality will eventually come to the movies, on this excerpt from the #TalkingTech roundtable podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Not ... Show More

Chris Messina and I go deeper on some of the news of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

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Part Two of the legendary Gary Kildall Story... Sponsors: Tiny.website CognitoHQ.com Subscribe to the ad-free feed!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

If Amazon Prime's movie Radioactive has you curious about Marie's REAL story, we joined our two episodes of her, broke them into chapters, and created this one mega-Marie deep dive into her life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

<p>Matthew McConaughey: Take 2. We get the legend back on the pod for a second time… and this time, we actually record an episode. </p> <p><p>Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of SmartLess ad-free and a whole week early.&nbsp;<br>Start a free trial now on ... Show More