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. If my email chain is to be believed, this episode has been four years in the mak ... Show More
Oct 2021
203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email
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
34m 18s
Aug 2019
201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann
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
25m 4s
Jul 2019
200. Professional Blogging Pioneer Josh Marshall
Josh Marshall is one of the key people who brought blogging into the realm of serious, award winning and respectable journalism. The story of his blog/publication, Talking Points Memo, or TPM is the story of blogging becoming legit and serious, but also the story of modern media ... Show More
1h 16m
Nov 2019
2000s Silicon Valley with Zuckerberg, My Biggest Flip Story and More
<p>On this episode of the podcast that I recorded with Ryan Moran as a Charity Buzz Wine Tasting, we talk about my stories from early Silicon Valley and Web 2.0 days. Talking about, early days of Social Cam, Yobongo, coming up with the idea of Tinder before Tinder, some stories w ... Show More
1h 16m
Sep 2025
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
I started a new show so I can have long-form conversations with the greatest living founders. You can watch on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, X, or the web.
The new show is on a separate feed so don't forget to follow David Senra so you don't miss future episodes. Nothing is ... Show More
2h 9m
May 2022
ICYMI - Encore: Tumblr’s “This Is White Privilege” Stays Ahead of Its Time
In this episode, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher speak with Dion Beary, a writer and online community builder who founded the Tumblr blog This Is White Privilege. They talk with Beary about where that blog began, its impact on online discourse, and why he stepped away ... Show More
22m 8s
Jul 2019
Finyal Media: Talking podcasts
This week I have legendary podcasting duo Majid & Mshari, founders of Finyal Media. A podcasting startup that produces the ‘Yalla Startup’, ‘Millennial Mirrors’ and ‘1001 nights’. When a bunch of podcasters get in a room with each other, we’re bound to talk about podcasts! Enjoy. ... Show More
1h 4m