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The tech news podcast that stands out by being smarter, funnier, and more to the point than those other bloviating talk shows.
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Ashish Kuthiala is a senior director for HP Enterprise, overseeing the organization's DevOps portfolio. We talked to him about the transformation of enterprise architectures toward technologies that support a more nimble, agile DevOps stance -- a change that Kuthiala says will ultimate impact everyone in a company: not just developers and operations people, but marketing, customer care, and even accounting and finance. Plus, we tell you what to think about the tech impact of Brexit, Pinterest's new "shopping bag" and visual search features, and the advent of personal chatbots just for you.
Ambarish "Rish" Mitra is the CEO of Blippar, an augmented reality platform that dozens of brands are using to add interactivity to their products. Point the Blippar app at a logo, and you can unlock virtual games and extra content. But Blippar is also working on AI technology that can identify ordinary objects in the real world like chairs, dogs, birds, and more.
Plus, we tell you what to think about the surge of virtual reality news at the Game Developers' Conference and at GDC, and we discuss the pros and cons of the algorithmic timelines coming to both Twitter and Instagram.
John Purrier is a founder and board member of OpenStack, and is currently Chief Technology Officer for Automic. We talk with him about the transformation of enterprise IT architectures and about the need for automation and integration of services.
Plus, we tell you what to think about Twitter's crazy new algorithmic timeline (and its disappointing lack of growth), Zenefits firing its CEO, and Marc Andreessen trying to teach India about colonialism's benefits.
David Wadhwani joined AppDynamics as its CEO and president in late 2015 after a storied career at Adobe. AppDynamics, which provides application monitoring services for developers and enterprises, recently raised $150 million in a round that reportedly valued the company at close to $2 billion. We talk with Wadhwani about the investment climate, application performance monitoring in general, DevOps, and about how he helped Adobe manage its transition from packaged software to cloud services.
Plus, we tell you what to think about the possible bursting of the "unicorn" bubble in 2016, Apple abandoning its iAd platform, Google's AMP platform for faster mobile pages, and Jordan Novet's home-built Oculus Rift-compatible PC.
Kakul Srivastava is the vice president of product management at Github, the collaborative service used by over 12 million developers to share software code. We caught up with her recently to talk about how Github has evolved into a platform (and what it means to be a platform), how the company figures out which new features and products to build, and the role of open source software in stimulating innovation.
Plus, we tell you what to think about what 2015 meant for Microsoft, virtual reality, and Silicon Valley "unicorns."
Jonathan Rende is the chief research officer for Castlight Health, a company that aims to bring transparency to the U.S. healthcare market by giving employees of its client companies detailed information on what medical procedures cost at various local providers. We talk to Rende about how Castlight is trying to transform healthcare and build a platform for health data.
Plus, we tell you what to think about rumors of a new Apple Watch, children's toys getting hacked, and the continuing battle over ad-blocking software.
This week's guest, Tomasz Tunguz, is a partner at Redpoint Capital, where he focuses on SaaS investments. He's become quite well-known for an influential blog and newsletter where he writes daily, data-driven posts about key issues facing startups.
Plus, we tell you what to think about Apple's new iPad Pro, Facebook's $300 billion market cap, and BlackBerry's new Priv phone (it has a keyboard!).
This week, we talk to Kieran Hannon, the loquacious and influential chief marketing officer of Belkin, the massive maker of technology accessories, routers, and more. Plus, we give you the latest news on Amazon Web Services, Twitter, and Microsoft's latest gadgets.
Josh Elman is a VC at Greylock and a veteran of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. He knows more than almost anyone about building platforms and growing users. We talk to him about both of those topics in the latest edition of our "Innovation Engines" series.
Plus, we tell you what to think about Apple's upcoming news, Google's new logo, and Hampton Creek's eggless mayo controversy.
This week on VentureBeat's podcast, we talk to Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and founder of Automattic. Mullenweg describes how he created the blogging platform, which now powers 24% of the Web -- and why open source has been critical to the growth of the platform and the community that supports it.
Plus, we tell you what to think about Windows 10, GitHub, and Uber.
This week, we bring you the first in an ongoing series of interviews with platform builders. We're calling this series 'Innovation Engines,' and we kick it off with Jeff Lawson, the founder and CEO of Twilio, a company that's building a platform to connect apps with telephone capabilities. If you've ever used an app that connected you with a customer service rep via a phone call, it was probably using Twilio under the hood.
Plus, we tell you what to think about personalization technologies (and why marketers find it so difficult), the $25 billion mobile advertising gap, and Apple's strangely persistent support for the iPod Touch.
We sat down with Michael Williams, the chief marketing officer for Grand Prix of America, which is bringing Formula 1 racing to the U.S., to find out what challenges he's facing in helping Americans wake up to one of the world's most popular racing sports. Among other topics, we discuss personalization and how brands can build connections with their most loyal customers.
Plus, we tell you what to think about growing Internet ad revenue, mobile advertising engagement, and Google Photos.
This week, we talk with Etan Lightstone, the VP of design for New Relic, about the importance of good design and user experience (UX) in enterprise apps. He tells us what technologies have helped enable better design, and we also discuss how data visualization tools have evolved. Don't miss Etan's ratings of other enterprise software providers' designs at the end!
Plus, we tell you what to think about Tesla's new Powerwall batteries, Amazon's acquisition of cloud company ClusterK, and Microsoft's newest browser, called Edge.
We talk to John Koetsier, who heads up VentureBeat's new research product, VB Insight -- which is collecting hundreds of thousands of data points to make sense of the burgeoning field of marketing technology. With more than $3B poured into this sector in the last quarter, there's a lot of hype but also some nuggets of real value.
Plus: We tell you what to think about Google's new Fi wireless service, how Facebook is trying to kill Google, and what Amazon's $5B in revenues for AWS means.
This week, we speak with Michael Tolkin, the CEO of IMAX Labs, an innovation lab backed by IMAX Corp. He's pretty excited about what the future of augmented and virtual reality hardware have to offer, and he shares his thoughts with us.
Plus, we tell you what to think the continuing growth of Slack, Etsy’s IPO, and Mobilegeddon.
You might think politics and e-commerce might seem unrelated, but Harper Reed, who was the CTO of President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, would disagree. On this week's episode of What to Think, Reed, who's now building mobile commerce startup Modest, tells us why he's thankful for learning about getting people to donate to a campaign. (Hint: It's not that different from getting people to buy T-shirts.)
Plus, we tell you what to think about pre-ordering the Apple Watch, Snapchat's deep-learning research, and LinkedIn's $1.5 billion acquisition of lynda.com.
The accepted narrative about Steve Jobs has been that he was half genius and half jerk, but that isn’t the whole truth. So say authors Rick Tetzeli and Brent Schlender in the new biography “Becoming Steve Jobs.” Jobs’ character is more multidimensional than that, and over the course of his life he proved he was capable of change. Tetzeli’s and Schlender’s book presents Jobs in a very different light than did the “authorized” biography of Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.
Plus: We tell you what to think about Jay-Z’s new music site Tidal, Bill Gates’s 40th anniversary letter to Microsoft employees, and the HBO Now service on Apple TV.
The Ellen Pao discrimination case, which concluded last week, has many in the tech world thinking about the roles of women in technology. One woman who is now in a very high profile role is Elena Donio, who is president at Concur, maker of the market-leading travel and expense management software. Donio believes we should try to bring more of our true selves to the workplace, not just the small part we believe to be “businesslike.”
Plus: We tell you what to think about Facebook’s announcements last week at its f8 conference, about the possibility of a smaller iPhone 6, and about the new line of Microsoft Surface tablets.
In the future, you might not own a car. Instead, you'll get around town by hopping into one of many driverless, autonomous pods swarming the streets. To get a picture of how we'll get there, we invited Xerox executive David Cummins to talk to us about the company's efforts to improve parking -- yes, parking -- and the future of transportation in cities around the world.
Plus: We tell you what to think about the new Steve Jobs biography, Microsoft offering free Windows 10 upgrades to pirates, and the worst subreddits on the planet.
This week, we speak with Elissa Shevinsky, chief executive of JeKuDo Privacy Company, a new startup building easy-to-use privacy tools like a group-messaging app.
Also, we tell you what to think about the new MacBook, Pinterest's $11 billion valuation, and IBM's new cloud software for analyzing tweets.
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