MashTalk Podcast
1) How GoPro rebooted itself, with guest CEO Nick Woodman
For GoPro, things are looking up. After a tumultuous couple of years — which saw the action-camera company enter and then leave the drone business, get squeezed harder by increasingly competit...Show More
2) The future of crowdfunding, with guest Indiegogo CEO David Mandelbrot
Ten years ago, Indiegogo launched the modern era of crowdfunding by creating a place where anyone could pitch their idea, product, or creative endeavor to the entire world, asking for the funds to mak...Show More
3) Why we’ll never get rid of program guides, with guest Sling TV’s Jimshade Chaudhari
Want live TV over the internet? Today you have several options, including Hulu, YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, and more. It’s hard to remember, though, but there was a time when there were virtually no ...Show More
Why we’ll never get rid of program guides, with guest Sling TV’s Jimshade Chaudhari
39:24 | Oct 26th, 2018
4) The secret to Candy Crush's success, with guest King CEO Riccardo Zacconi
What does ‘time well spent’ mean for games like ‘Candy Crush?’ If you own a smartphone, chances are you know Candy Crush and maybe even the game’s latest incarnation, Candy Crush Friends Saga....Show More
5) How to do consumer robots right, with guest Anki CEO Boris Sofman
In case you missed it, the robots are here. No, not the apocalyptic hordes of artificially intelligent machines that some believe are destined to enslave or eradicate us (hello, Boston Dynamics!), but...Show More
6) Apple's 2018 iPhones have a serious naming problem
Everyone knows Apple will unveil new iPhones in the fall, and the consensus is there will be three models: a successor to the iPhone X, a large-screen version of that phone, and a new model that looks...Show More
7) Why the gun emoji is no more, with guest Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia
Emoji have conquered the world, no doubt, but what happens after the conquest? The answer: Things change. Emoji are constantly evolving, not only with new symbols that arrive on our smartphone keyboar...Show More
8) The frightening world of online 'spiritual gurus,' with guest Jennings Brown
We all know YouTube. YouTube is the biggest video platform on the planet, with about 400 hours of video uploaded to the service every second. But YouTube, of all the current content "platforms," is ar...Show More
The frightening world of online 'spiritual gurus,' with guest Jennings Brown
44:41 | Jul 13th, 2018
9) The future of Microsoft Cortana, with guest Javier Soltero
When Google wowed the tech world with its demo of Duplex -- the tech that allows its digital Assistant make phone calls to perform mundane tasks like booking haircuts or making restaurant reservations...Show More
10) Why the gig economy was doomed from the start, with guest Sarah Kessler
For a while there, it seemed like "Uber for X" was the only pitch that mattered. To many, the rapid rise of Uber wasn't just a major tech success story -- it signaled a wholesale change that was comin...Show More