Frontier Podcast by Gun.io

If you only know of Code Red because it's a Mountain Dew flavor, it's time to gain some knowledge about the notorious computer virus that wormed its way across the internet in July of 2001. On This Week in Tech History, David and Abbey talk about the history of computer worms, virus protection, and (obviously) Mountain Dew flavors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A lot of companies talk global connectivity, but Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder at 46 Labs, has put his boots on the ground to build networks around the world. In this week's Founder to Founder episode, he talks to Teja for about building an infrastructure business, the similarities between flying a plane and running a company, and why it's easier to send a connection through a brick wall than a clump of trees.www.46labs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Has there been a modern invention that has had a more profound effect on humanity than the internet? This week, Chris steps in as guest host and talks with Victoria about the birth of the internet, its growth through the teenage years, and all the ways we continue to use it well into its adulthood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Founder to Founder episode, Teja sits down with Devon Wright, CEO and founder of Lumo, a smart irrigation system that is helping growers save water, monitor usage, and tackle the water shortage problems that plague the American West. They talk about building to scale, how to stay sane in Silicon Valley, and the importance of actually doing the work you're building a product for.https://lumo.ag/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The way smartphones changed our interactions with technology is hard to understate. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, we had no way of knowing how reliant we would be on them in the very near future. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Haley discuss the wait, the features, and how it could take 1,000 people almost three years to deliver something so game-changing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Teja talks with Andrew from SF AppWorks. From their origins in a music creation startup, they've always been a force for positive change through technology. Andrew's story is one of resilience, innovation, and a relentless commitment to improving lives. They also get into what your first year of Jiu-Jitsu looks like, anime deep cuts, and Teja's post-new-wave post-workout recovery routine. #bjj #founder #anime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The world would be hard-pressed to find a historical figure who was more influential to modern computing than Alan Turing. On This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Deividi dive into the work he did, the lives he saved, and ponder how many more advances he could have made had his life not been cut tragically short. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Teja talks with Eran Mizrahi, CEO and Co-founder of ingredient brothers, for our Founder to Founder series. They discuss the need to be hungry and communicative if you want to be an effective leader, the importance of hiring the best if you want the best, and how many parallels there are between sourcing great talent and sourcing some of the world's finest ingredients.https://www.linkedin.com/company/ingredient-brothers/https://ingredientbrothers.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the first educational toy to utilize speech that wasn't pre-recorded to a tape or phonograph, the Texas Instruments' Speak & Spell was groundbreaking, along with its brethren, Speak & Read and Speak & Math. In This Week in Tech History, Abbey and Tyler talk about the implications it had for future toys, its importance to the educational tech movement, and why Tyler's Speak & Spell seemed to be stuck at Speak. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when a hipster, a hustler, and a hacker come together to build a better way to process and serve up geospatial data? Ellipsis Drive has the answer, as we learn in this week's Founder to Founder episode. Teja sits down with Rosalie van der Maas, CEO and Co-founder of the company, to talk about building a business, working around the globe, and how sometimes you need to take a bad idea and iterate enough to find the good in it.https://ellipsis-drive.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.