Danielle Newnham Podcast

Today’s guest is David Senra , ex-founder host of   Founders podcast – one of my favourite podcasts where each week, David devours a biography of a founder and shares his favourite lessons with the world, whether it’s Charlie Munger, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Kobe Bryant, The Wright Brothers, Lucille Ball, Jay Z, Enzo Ferrari and many more! But David has a really interesting story himself and one we...

This episode with Wired Founding Editor Kevin Kelly is one of my favourite episodes! His joie de vivre is infectious and I learned so much from his inspiring story and his fantastic new book Excellent Advice For Living which we talk about in this episode from which I know you will get a lot from too. But stepping back in time, Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review from 1984-1990...

Today’s episode is with Deb Liu – CEO of Ancestry.com , the billion dollar genealogy company. Deb also serves on the Board of Intuit and is the co-founder of Women in Product.  This is a Replay of S6:E48. In this interview, Deb talks me through her personal and career journey from growing up in a small town where less than 1% of the community were Asian to how she overcame racism to become a VP at...

Today’s guest is Peter Faulding - a world-leading confined space rescue and forensic search specialist. He has pioneered the use of side-scan sonar in forensic searches for missing persons underwater in the UK and is a world leader in underwater search techniques. He has assisted in the search in many cold cases and has located human remains and evidence that had gone undetected for years, in some...

Today's guest is David Auerbach , a former engineer at both Microsoft and Google and now a technologist, writer and author of two books – Bitwise: A Life in Code and his most recent book, Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. Today, we talk about David’s background in software engineering and what it was like to work at Microsoft on MSN Mes...

Today’s guest is the incredible Mark Murdoch, founder of Mahogany a multi-faceted music company which is behind the hugely popular Mahogany Sessions on YouTube, famed for its live acoustic sessions with amazing singers in phenomenal locations that include artists fields, warehouses, cemeteries, churches. All these acoustic sessions are filmed with beautiful cinematography making the experience eve...

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind their game-changing work. I may have only just wrapped up series 8 but I am so excited about series 9 that I thought I would bring it forward so it will be launching imminently. And upcoming guests on this series include Mark Murdoch, the founder behind music channel Mahog...

As it’s International Women’s Day, I wanted to do what we did last year and hand the episode over to some of the amazing women I have had on the show in the past year, and of course I will link to each of their original episodes  below so that you can check them out in full. In order of appearance in today’s show, we have the wonderful Cat Noone of Stark, Noor Shaker of X-Chem and Glamourous AI, A...

I wanted  to say a massive thank you for listening to Series 8 of the podcast and thank you to my wonderful guests Steve Furber, Dean Forbes, Michael Gibson, Jennifer Phan, Alvy Ray Smith, Polina Marinova Pompliano and Andrew Zuckerman. Since the beginning of this year, we have learned so much from these inspiring stories - from Steve Furber’s quest to reverse engineer the human brain to Dean Forb...

I believe in pure intention. And if your intentions are pure, you're going to create something of value that people will connect with. Andrew Zuckerman The medium that he works in is almost secondary to the fact that he's a thinker and an intellectual first. David Meredith on Andrew Zuckerman Today’s guest is Andrew Zuckerman , a celebrated filmmaker, photographer, author, podcaster, founder who h...

Today's guest is Polina Marinova Pompliano , writer and founder of The Profile –a  newsletter and media company that profiles the world’s most successful people from founders to athletes, actors to authors and many many more in between. Previously, Polina was at Fortune magazine as a journalist and editor where she wrote Term Sheet – a daily digest on businesses deals and the people behind them. P...

Today’s guest is Jennifer Phan - co-founder of  Passionfroot - a platform empowering creators to partner directly with brands and agencies to monetise their product and services, be it a podcast, a newsletter or YouTube channel. Born to immigrant parents, Jen started her career as VC investor before seeing a gap in the market for creators who are trying to earn money directly from their work. Pass...

Dr Alvy Ray Smith is the co-founder of Pixar, a computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer graphics.  After starting his career in academia, Alvy had an epiphany following a serious skiing accident. He decided to move to California to combine his two passions - art and computers - in a place where he felt something good was about to happen.  Alvy was always a pioneer. From creating hi...

Today’s guest is Michael Gibson , co-founder of 1517 – a venture fund he started in June 2015 with Danielle Strachman which backs, and I quote, “dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists, at the earliest stages.” Prior to starting 1517, Michael worked with Peter Thiel, and alongside, Danielle Strachman, they ran The Thiel Fellowship for five years. For those who don’t know, The Thiel F...

Interview with Dean Forbes - hugely successful turnaround tech CEO who has led several companies to massively successful exits.  But let’s go back in time. Dean experienced hardship growing up and his family were made homeless twice but Dean always had big aspirations. His first goal was to make money doing what he loved which was football and whilst he did get to play for a Premiership, the exper...

Steve Furber is a seminal computer scientist, mathematician and hardware designer whose work includes the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor which can be found in over 100 billion devices today. Steve studied both Maths followed by a PhD in Aerodynamics at Cambridge University before joining Herman Hauser and Chris Curry at Acorn Computers . For the next decade, he would work...

Hello and welcome to the Danielle Newham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. I wanted to come on here quickly to wish you all a fantastic 2023 and to thank you all for being part of this podcast journey with me. I appreciate everyone who has listened and shared their favourite episodes in 2022...

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE , co-founder of Stemettes an award-winning social initiative focused on getting girls, young women and non-binary people excited about, and encouraged into STEM fields through mentoring, qualification academies and STEM clubs. But let’s go back a bit. Because to understand why Anne-Marie chose this path, you need to understand her life story. At age just 10 years-old, An...

Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz is a serial tech entrepreneur and visionary. He co-founded Mako Surgical in 2004 — a robotics company specialising in manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance technology utilised by hospitals worldwide. MAKO was acquired by Stryker Corporation in 2013 for $1.65 billion. Rony went on to found Magic Leap — a spatial computing company which envisaged a futuristic...

Welcome to the Danielle Newnham Podcast where I interview tech founders and innovators to learn the inspiring, human stories behind the game-changing tech we use every day. I wanted to try something a little different today. I have been asked for a while now about doing shortened versions of podcast episodes so I thought I would test this out with some takeaway tips from the brilliant Dhiraj Mukhe...

Today’s guest is John Maeda – famed artist, designer, technologist, author, ex MIT professor, and once President of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, among many other accolades - most recently as CTO at Everbridge. He completed his bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT where he would return to become Professor of Design and Computation and...

Today’s guest is Chris Sheldrick , co-founder and CEO of what3words – the startup which is quite literally mapping the world. Chris Sheldrick grew up as a gifted musician who thought his music career was all mapped out but sadly, Chris suffers from a sleep disorder which saw him sever the very parts of his body required for such an illustrious career.  Not deterred by this life-changing experience...

Today’s conversation is with Donna Auguste and I wanted to replay her episode from Series 2 because it’s actually Ada Lovelace Day today which is an international celebration of the achievements of women in STEM and Donna encompasses everything we are celebrating today. An incredible role model, Donna received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Berkeley before...

Something I don’t tell many people is that when I was seven years old, two of my school friends and their family were shot dead. As you can imagine, it has had a long-lasting impact on me and all those who had the privilege of knowing them. Fast forward all these years and one of my former guests Jimmy Soni was kind enough to introduce me to Rick Smith , founder of Taser  now Axon - a company whic...

Today’s guest is Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value , a media and product business that I like to say takes complex ideas and makes them digestible through visual design. He also sells incredible courses which helps others to learn, teach, build and sell their value more effectively.  ‍‍ Originally from the UK, Jack moved to NY to pursue his passion as a designer then, at the beginning of 20...