Category: Interview

10 hours of Elon Musk videos

10 Hours Of Elon: Binge-Watch Elon Musk’s Vision Of The Future

Visionary. Entrepreneur. Sci-Fi Nerd. Elon Musk is just one of those people who you can watch for hours. Instead of rewatching Orange Is The New Black, or Arrested Development, why don’t you revel in the future, and binge-watch Elon Musk. We’ve gathered over 10 hours of Elony goodness, talking Tesla, Spacex, Solar City, and the Hyperloop. Watch him interact with journalists, and venture capitalists,...

jaan tallinn skype and metamed founder

Skype Founder Jaan Tallinn on the Future of Medicine, and his new company

Today, I’m thrilled to share with you all my recent interview with the cofounder of Skype Jaan Tallinn. Today, he’s here to talk to us about his latest company though, Metamed, a high-tech medical startup that he cofounded, with backing by Peter Thiel, and his Venture Capital firm, Founder’s Fund. I met Jaan a few months ago at a conference, and after talking with him...

Exclusive: Snapchat Hackers Friend 4 Million Users [And show their work to the CEO of Snapchat]

Young hackers Ash Bhat and Ankit Ranjan just hacked into Snapchat, and friended 4 million users. After getting their project up and running, they showed it to Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat. We talked to Ranjan, who gave us the whole story. According to Ranjan, Bhat came into the HackTech hackathon at Caltech thinking “I want to piss off a company”, and because of the...

Exclusive: Mark Cuban Talks Snapchat Acquisition Offer

For reasons I’ll explain later, I found Snapchat’s actions this week unfathomable, so I went seeking advice from the most expert man out there on the subject of acquisitions: Mr. Mark Cuban (Shark Tank, Broadcast.com). I’m on a role with exclusives this week, although this one’s pretty succinct. As many of you may know, Mark Cuban’s fortune comes from a site called Broadcast.com (an...

Peter Thiel on Bitcoin

Exclusive: Peter Thiel on Bitcoin

At a conference this past weekend, Paypal Founder, and notable venture capitalist Peter Thiel weighed in on Bitcoin, the risks, and its potential impact on society. Seeing as digital currency is just about as futuristic as it gets, I thought his answer would be a fascinating addition to this blog, so I transcribed it below.. Below is the transcript of his thoughts on Bitcoin....