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Sam Talks Technology

by Sam Sethi

Award-winning radio presenter Sam Sethi talks with some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs about their career highlights and current startup. He brings his lifelong passion for all things business & tech to his podcast and asks the key questions you'd ask, all in his fun, relaxed, informative and always entertaining style. Join Sam and his guests live every Wednesday on Marlow FM (97.5) at 2pm (GMT) You can listen online at marlowfm.co.uk or just ask your smart speaker to 'Play Marlow FM’. Catch all of Sam’s other shows at https://samtalks.technology

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  6. London CDN Server Audio Test

  7. Katz Kiely Talks about how frontline.live helps the NHS with PPE and why they have open sourced the platform.

    SPEAKER SUMMARY Katz Kiely’s is the CEO and founder of Beep, a behavioural empowerment platform. She’s also responsible to kickstarting and bootstrapping a marvellous initiative called Frontline.Live. Frontline.Live is the first national open data rapid response platform - designed to get health...

  8. Franz-Josef Schrepf talks about the rapid growth of Hopin and the acquisition of StreamYard

    We talk about Hopin: - becoming a double unicorn worth $2.1bn in less than 18 months - hiring 800 people at 40 new people per week - the StreamYard acquisition and integration - the potential threat of Clubhouse if any? On 3rd February Johnny Boufarhat and Geige Vandentop will host a Hopin event...

  9. Monika Wiela talks about how Give Back Box uses old Amazon boxes to help charities around the world.

    Give Back Box® was founded in 2012 by Monika Wiela, who at the time was running an online shoe store. The idea was inspired by a homeless man she encountered in Chicago, who was holding up a sign saying he needed a pair of shoes. Wiela returned later that day with shoes for him, but he was gone....

  10. Minter Dial talks about his new book "You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader

    There is a need for a new kind of leadership; one that bleeds personality and rings true to employees and customers alike who crave authenticity. You Lead argues that business leaders deliver superior results, communities of engagement both inside and outside of the company and true values-driven...

  11. Bhushan Sethi talks about the future of work in a post-covid hybrid workplace with a K-shape recovery.

    Sam and Bhushan talked about the future of work and how PwC along with their clients have managed through the covid crisis and more importantly what they plan to do in 2021. We talked about how Bhushan sees 2021 as a more hybrid workplace with employees returning back to the office cautiously but...

  12. Charlie Cadbury talks about Donate Now and the future of frictionless voice commerce.

    Charlie Cadbury is the Chief Executive Officer of Say It Now, the award-winning voice technology company, who have teamed up with digital advertising exchange DAX to enable people to respond directly to radio advertisements using their smart speaker and only voice commands to donate to their…

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  13. Faisal Galaria talks about the rebirth of Blippar and the future of augmented reality.

    Sam and Faisal talked about his recent tenure as CEO of Blippar. Why now is the right time for an Augmented Reality (AR) rebirth and what are his expansion plans globally for Blippar. We also talked about his amazing career from the early days in Ofcom and his role in the Premier League football...

  14. Mukul Devichand talks about why the BBC is launching their own smart voice assistant called ‘Beeb’.

    Sam talked with Mukul about how this very early beta project fits into the wider BBC strategy across multiple services to act as a trusted public service voice assistant to the vast array of content on TV, Radio and Sounds (podcasts), be it local, national or international. Mukul also talks about...

  15. Martin Steers talks about the Community Radio Awards and the New UK Community Radio Network.

    Sam Sethi had the pleasure to interview Martin Steers the station manager at NLive Radio and Chair of Community Radio Awards. We talked about how NLive is continuing to run their station through COVID and what software Martin is using to enable remote broadcasting. We talked. about the upcoming...

  16. Nigel Eccles talks about the growth of Flick & the on-going litigation of FanDuel

    Sam talks with Nigel Eccles about his new company Flick. A companion app for sports fans who want to watch a game while chatting online with likeminded fans and friends. Nigel talks about how Flick has raised £4m and was growing nicely until Covid-19 put a stop to all live sports. He believes…

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  17. Jay LeBoeuf talks about AI Powered Podcasting Studio Descript

    Sam talks with Jay LeBoeuf about Descript’s latest version 3.4 which now includes live transcription, overdub and publishing to the web. This is on top of its already powerful realtime audio and text synchronised editing.

  18. Tommy Nagra talks about BBC raising £70m via the Big Night In, his love of Liverpool FC and Diversity in the BBC.

    Sam Sethi talks with Tommy Nagra about the BBC Big Night In and how in less than three weeks it managed to put on a live show that raised £70m. We talk about how Tommy started in the BBC and how he helped discover comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar. Both Tommy and I are Liverpool FC “Superfans” and…

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  19. James Minter talks about going from Head Honcho of Adam St to a Headhunter

    Sam Sethi talks with James Minter about the story of his club, Adam Street in London which not been told. James is as self-effacing as he is charming, recounting with warmth the role it played in the dotcom boom. “Adam Street was absolutely amazing,” he recalls. “It was a first, unique, and I met...

  20. Gustaf Kranck talks about the Vagus Test and the Vagus ECG Watch for health monitoring Covid-19

    Gustaf is the 'Inventor of the Vagus ECG Test'. He describes himself as a curious, open-minded brain-explorer, engineer and serial entrepreneur. For more than 25 years he has successfully started, run and exited more than ten companies globally. After the 2008 financial crisis, he had a burn-out....

  21. Cinzia Ricciardone talks about Code4Covid community initiative to help people and companies get online

    Formed as a Slack group on March 16th by a couple of ex-colleagues, the code4covid community now counts over 700 tech volunteers: and with other groups joining in, it keeps growing! The team's mission is to find technology solutions to help people during the COVID-19 crisis: we believe that...

  22. Sarah Frier talks about her new book: No Filter The Inside Story of Instagram

    Sam Sethi talks with Sarah Frier about why she wrote the book, how Kevin Systrom and Mark Zuckerberg clashed from the start and eventually what led to Kevin leaving instagram. We also talk about the threats to Facebook from Snapchat, Tiktok and Instagram.

  23. Minter Dial talks about adding Heartificial Empathy to the future workplace post Covid-19

    Minter Dial serves as a keynote speaker, conference animator and consultant on branding, leadership and transformation for blue-chip companies, conferences and events around the world. Minter is an author and filmmaker of award-winning "The Last Ring Home" (Nov 2016). Co-author of the…

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  24. Nick Dalton talks about their new book - Change the Workplace, Change the World.

    Nick Dalton is the Executive Vice President, HR for Unilever. He has been in HR for over 30 years, working globally, regionally, and locally. He has also worked in all areas of HR, from leading international negotiations with trade unions to managing senior leadership development and enabling...

  25. Rory Sutherland talks about his new book Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

    Sam Sethi talks with Rory Sutherland

  26. James Mulvany talks about the future of podcasting and radio - transcriptions, search and monetisation.

    Sam Sethi talks with James Mulvany about how to get started quickly with podcasting. We then talk about some of the challenges of recording, distributing and discovering a new podcast before we finally look into the future of podcasting. Google have started to auto-transcribe and index podcasts...

  27. Steve Pankhurst talks about the rise and fall of the UK’s first social network - Friends Reunited.

    Stephen Pankhurst was the co-founder of Friends Reunited along with his wife Julie. In 1999, Stephen’s wife Julie, was pregnant with their first child. She had just used the internet to track down her long lost Grandfather that she had never seen. Realising the power of the internet, and a desire...

  28. Shaa Wasmund talks about her amazing career and her new book. “How to fix your sh*t”.

    Sam Sethi talked to Sháá Wasmund about where her name originated from and how she managed to work for Chris Eubank, Sir James Dyson, Sir Bob Geldof all before she was 30. We talked about how she turned down £45m by not working for Michael Birch and that surprisingly isn’t her biggest regret. We...

  29. Dr Al Pinkerton talks about the effect of social media in the UK & US elections

    Sam Sethi talks with Dr Alasdair Pinkerton and co-host Matt Hodges-Long about the recent UK general election where Alasdair stood in Surrey Heath as the PPC (Parliamentary Prospective Candidate) for the Liberal Democrats. Despite losing to Mr Gove, they managed to use social media to crowdfund…

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  30. Dan Wagner talks about his rollercoaster career; from AIM listed at 30 to starting again at 50.

    Sam Sethi talks with Dan Wagner about his three startups MAID, Venda and Rezolve. We talked about how he started MAID in 1984, when he was only 20 before the web and search engines really existed. How he came to be the youngest CEO of Brightstation PLC which was listed on the London Stock…

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  31. Andy McLoughlin talks about starting as an Entrepreneur before turning into a Venture Capitalist.

    Andy McLoughlin is a partner at Uncork Capital in San Francisco, focusing on B2B software opportunities. Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around. Really. Andy's investments include LaunchDarkly, Coder, Crossbeam, Focal Systems,...

  32. Paul Fabretti talks about Microsoft’s changing culture and his role in communicating the story.

    Sam Sethi talked with Paul Fabretti about how Microsoft's culture has changed since I worked for them back in the 90's. The insular Microsoft of Gates and Balmer, focused on Office and Windows, that I worked for has been replaced by a more open Microsoft focused on Azure and Open Source. But how...

  33. Cary Marsh talks about successfully crowdfunding her engineering project Bootclaw and FlipBook.

    Sam Sethi and Cary Marsh have been friends for over a decade. We first met when Cary was CEO of Mydeo and online video hosting company. In this podcast we talked about Cary's two successful kickstarter projects - Bootclaw and My Flipping World. Cary explains why she prefers to raise funds via...

  34. Jeevan Gnanam talks about building on his grandfathers legacy to create Sri Lanka’s tech scene.

    Jeevan was visiting my good friend Manoj Ranaweera, who runs Techelerate Ventures in Manchester. We spoke about Jeevan's entrepreneurial journey and his entrepreneurial grandfather. Jeevan talked about the first companies he started. He started a cab driving company while at University with…

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  35. Tony Fish talks about Immutable Data and the need for Corporate Data Governance.

    Tony has been a friend for over two decades. In this podcast we talked about the problem with immutable data and blockchain and the benefits of the Chinese Social Score and why this is all our futures. Tony also explained why he thinks 'data is not the new oil to mine. And finally we talked about...

  36. Dan Murray-Serter talks about his new ‘DNVB’ Heights, that sells smart multi-vitamins.

    Dan and I first met in 2013 when he launched Grabble and I was running Bagzee, my own real-time price tracking fashion startup. In this podcast we talked about why he has started a new smart multi-vitamin, how he formed such an impressive team including Dr Tara Swart, Chief Science Officer and...

  37. Chris Ward talks about suffering from Perfectionism and the Disorder OCPD in his new book.

    Chis and I go back nearly two decades. We first met when Chris kindly invited me to a charity dinner for Comic Relief. In this podcast we talked about his new book "Less Perfect, More Happy. - how to overcome perfectionism". Perfectionism now has a name for this mental health issue. It's called...

  38. Walid Al Saqqaf talks about why companies are using private/enterprise blockchains.

    Sam talked with Walid about why companies are using private/enterprise blockchains and how these projects are moving from proof of concepts through to commercial rollouts. We also talked about the future of blockchains along with some of the challenges holding back the wider adoption of blockchains.

  39. Daniel Appelquist talks about the ‘Open Web’ and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s new ‘Contract for the Web’

    Daniel and I have known each other for over a decade. We first met when he was the Web & Internet Evangelist for Vodafone. We talked about Sir Tim's recent BBC Reith interview and Tim's new Contract for the Web. Today the web is being fragmented by countries like Russia, China and Iran to name…

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  40. Ben Hammersley talks about how he became a futurologist and known as ‘The Podfather’

  41. Sam talks with Ali Mitchell talks about why he likes to invest big on startups or go home.

    Ali and I talked about what EQT Ventures look for when investing in companies. They like to make big bets on companies and back them with significant funding. They look for companies with teams that are led by entrepreneurs that build and code the product themselves. i.e Bet Big or Go Home Unlike...

  42. Ralph Cochrane talks about the future of video creation and short form video consumption.

    Sam Sethi talked with Ralph Cochrane about the future of video creation and consumption. Ralph and I first met some 13 years ago when he was at BT. However, that was a lifetime ago and since then Ralph has become an award-winning video creator and documentary producer who flies all around the...

  43. Martin Bryant talks about the future of journalism, paywalls and podcasting

    Sam Sethi and Martin Bryant discussed the future of journalism, podcasting paywalls, subscriptions, libra payments and fakenews. It's clear more and more newspapers are moving to paywalls to replace their dwindling ad-revenue. Is the freemium model dead? Will bloggers and podcasters follow suit…

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  44. Ed Hodges talks about building an automated messaging platform for Smart Cities.

  45. Giles Rhys Jones talks about What3Words being a global address system that names every 3m x 3m square in the world with a unique 3-word address.

  46. Oliver Wellington talks about how easy it is to create social videos using Headliner.

  47. Daniel Snell talks about how businesses can unlock their “Diversity Dividend”.

    Sam Sethi talked with Daniel Snell about the many things we have in common. We have our love for rugby, wine, running marathons and Taekwondo (both being black belts). We also have numerous mutual friends and estranged acquaintances but oddly we had never met before. We talked about Daniel's work...

  48. James Cridland talks about radio’s future given the threat posed by on-demand audio.

  49. Nick Coleman talks about how a £500 bet became the ‘Duke of Pork’ from scratch.

  50. Julien Genestoux talks about how Web 3.0 will evolve towards 'Decentralised Autonomous Organisations' using the unlock protocol.

    Sam Sethi talked with Julien Genestoux about some of the current unhealthy business models that exist today, especially those that rely on advertising for monetisation i.e Facebook or act as gatekeepers for data distribution. i.e Apple Julien talked about how Web 3.0 needs to evolve towards...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Award-winning radio presenter Sam Sethi talks with some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs about their career highlights and current startup. He brings his lifelong passion for all things business & tech to his podcast and asks the key questions you'd ask, all in his fun, relaxed, informative and always entertaining style. Join Sam and his guests live every Wednesday on Marlow FM (97.5) at 2pm (GMT) You can listen online at marlowfm.co.uk or just ask your smart speaker to 'Play Marlow FM’. Catch all of Sam’s other shows at https://samtalks.technology

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