Sam Talks Technology

Sam Sethi talked with Hannah Power about what is personal branding and do we all need it? How do we go about achieving it using the 6 step process to build a personal brand? Clarity Customer Communication Content Channels Connect Collateral

Sam Sethi talked with Charles Cadbury about the development of their Alexa skill but also we talked about other Alexa features such In-Skill Purchasing (ISP), Alexa Presentation Language (APL) and name skill intent along with the challenges of internationalisation, privacy, voice SEO and developer skill monetisation. The Skill ' Book it Now ' allows users to search for and book recommended local s...

Sam Sethi talked with Jamie Riddell about some of his recent investments in startups and his personal goals, as well as how he sees the future of technology evolving from online advertising through to new digital currencies like Facebook's Libra.

Sam Sethi talked with Alan Watkins about the future of work, the future of leadership, the future of economics & politics as well as the future of democracy. We also talked about Alan’s next three books, his three degrees and his work with the Olympic teams.

Sam Sethi talked with Tiffany St James about digital transformation, open data in government and her new side project the Consultancy Club .

Sam Sethi talked with James Poulter about: Voice Commerce, Voice SEO, Internationalisation and Creating & Branding Alexa Voice Skills.

Sam Sethi talked with Katie King about her role as a member of the UK Government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) task force for the enterprise adoption of AI. We further discussed the role of the UK's Office for AI which was headed up by Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright but is now run by Baroness Nicky Morgan the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. We then talked about Ka...

Sam Sethi talked with Sam Liang about his entrepreneurial journey, from his beginnings as a computer student at Peking University through to a software engineer at Google where he was responsible for developing the blue dot on Google Maps. Sam sold his first startup, a location platform called Alohar Mobile to Alibaba, before finally starting Otter, the 30-person startup team that hails from Googl...

Sam Sethi talked with David Terrar about the changes in the IT industry over the last 40 years and how his first job offer from IBM was delivered by an old-fashioned telegram! Yes there was no email in 1978. We talked about the many changes he has seen from his early days at IBM with mainframes and learning programming languages such as Fortran through to today's newer technologies such as blockch...

Sam Sethi talked with Andy Evsans about the start of his entrepreneurial career in 1985 at the age of 15, selling concert tickets and trips and learning about business from the school of life. We then talked through the challenges Andy faced in building two online publishing and advertising companies. In 1999 he founded one of the UK's first digital publishing businesses & first vertical ad-ne...

Sam Sethi talked with Dave Isbitski about v-commerce, Alexa auto, privacy, skills payments, new devices, localisation and much more. Dave's quote below pretty much sums up my thinking about voicefirst development for the next generation of the web. "I feel like voice is the new HTML" - Dave Isbitski

Sam Sethi talked with Richard Edwards about the rollercoaster high's and low's of being an entrepreneur as well as his previous corporate life where he was the ' Man from Del Monte' traveling the world as a supermarket buyer. Today Richard is starting a new stealth ‘AI focused’ startup in the fintech space. We also briefly talked about how machine learning on large volumes of data can help with tr...

Sam Sethi talked with Marcus Cauchi about why getting your prospect to say no quickly can lead to faster/shorter sales cycles and 90%+ closure rates. Most salespeople have a wishbone, not a backbone. And they qualify in sales by being given a business card and a phone and told you are one. Professional selling is like any other profession, you need to work at it. You need to train constantly. So m...

Sam talked with Glenn about the entrepreneurial journey he has had to travel in order to reach this point of success. The challenges of up-scaling, fundraising in the US, letting staff go and stepping aside to let another CEO run the show.

Sam Sethi talked with Hugh MacLeod about his amazing business cards and where he gets his inspiration, his books and his work with Gaping Void. Hugh and I first met in 2005 in central London at the Tex Mex in Trafalgar Square at an event with Robert Scoble. Hugh was kind enough to do me a unique drawing for the launch of Techcrunch UK in 2006 which hangs on the wall of my study. Hugh is one of the...

Sam Sethi talked with Noury Bernard-Hasan about his 16 year Microsoft career as Director, Global Analyst Relations and his recent switch to Amazon, as well as his music career with The Touch - 70s Mod group. We also talked about my prediction for a new Amazon 'Phoenix' Phone, the future of Alexa and his upcoming music revival gig in London.

Sam Sethi talked with Robert Scoble about what is Spatial Computing? We talked about Facebook's new PC-free Oculus Quest (£499) and the higher end Oculus Rift S which just came out and how they could really be game changers in the VR gaming world but also in many other industries including health, education and entertainment. We also discussed the new Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 (which costs...

Sam Sethi talked with Dan Scarfe about how NewSignature help companies of all shapes and sizes make major investments around Microsoft technologies We also talked about the impending 'Cloud Wars' between Google, Amazon, Microsoft and some of the other players such as Alibaba and IBM plus who might win.

Sam Sethi talked with Paul Walsh about how MetaCert is building a query and response web protocol on the Blockchain that enables a ' Decentralized Trust and Reputation Protocol ' for the Internet. e.g imagine being able to look up the record for every domain and see who has owned it and what it was used for overtime. Think of this as a distributed and trusted newer version of WhoIs Domain Lookup b...

Sam Sethi talked with Paul Ayres about the future of your street. From Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points for cars, bikes & buses to the future rollout, potential benefits but also the current limits of 5G today. The biggest talking point was around the terabytes of data collection this enables and how AI will be used to build smarter cities that flow and are less polluted. Paul also talked...

Sam talked with Josh about how Techfugees have used technology to " empower the displaced ". Josh is also the co-founder of Tech For UK which tried to engage communities from all over the UK to fight Brexit and campaign for a meaningful vote on the terms of Brexit using tech and social media.

Sam talked with Peter about the future of VC funding and the new role of the Chief Funding Officer, as well as the changes needed in education to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs