This is Your Life in Silicon Valley

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Do you love HBO's Silicon Valley? Do you like reading about the latest technology trends? Then you'll love this show. Think of us as the real world/explain-it-how-it-is podcast for anyone with a Silicon Valley fetish. The Bay Area, San Francisco, and California in general are undergoing massive political and social change. We tackle issues like homelessness, the housing crisis, dating in the age of technology, startups, and other things you care about. How will it affect your life? It doesn't matter whether you live in New York, Texas, Arkansas, Bulgaria or Latvia - you will find something applicable to your day-to-day life from this show. And love it, or hate it the Silicon Valley/The Bay Area/California are the center of the technology universe right now. Insiders, and Valley apologists liken the Silicon Valley to Rome during the Renaissance. Others are more skeptical of the people in the Valley and their intentions. We examine life in the Valley by interviewing some of its most prominent insiders - both apologists and skeptics. We discuss the cultural quirks of living here, what to legitimately fear, what to feel excited about, and what is just plain weird. (Image credit: Irina Blok, Producer: Max Savage (noisysavage.com).

Episode Date
Will Real Estate Ever Be Affordable Again? (Guest: Keith Wasserman, Gelt)
Apr 04, 2022
What is Crypto and why Does it Matter? (Guest: Matt Taylor, Head of Growth at Solana)
Nov 08, 2021
What the Hell Happened at WeWork (Part 2)?
Jul 19, 2021
What was it Like Writing 'The' Book on Instagram? (Guest, Sarah Frier, Technology Reporter, Author of 'No Filter')
Feb 16, 2021
Eerily Quiet on the Front Lines of the Battle (Guest, Sumit Shah, Special Edition - 'Distanced')
Dec 03, 2020
What Is Going on with the Stock Market? (Guest: Rohan Rangaraj, Special Edition - 'Distanced')
Dec 02, 2020
A snapshot into the future of life during COVID-19 (Guest, Austin Sheppard, Special Edition - 'Distanced')
Dec 01, 2020
Where Did We Go Wrong, and What Can We Do Better Next Time? (Guest: Ryan Panchadsaram, Special Edition - 'Distanced')
Nov 30, 2020
Is Education As We Know it Finished (Guest: Ryan Delk, CEO/Co-Founder, Primer)?
Oct 19, 2020
Why are State Elections More Important than Federal elections? (Guest: Jessica Alter, Founder/CEO, Tech For Campaigns)
Sep 01, 2020
Is Silicon Valley Going to be a Template for the Rest of the World? (Guest: Rishi Kumar, US Congressional Candidate)
Aug 25, 2020
Is 'Indian Matchmaking' Like Actual Indian Culture? (Guest, Srinivas Rao, 'Contestant' on 'Indian Matchmaking'/Author/Speaker/Podcaster)
Jul 28, 2020
Is the Fate of all Social Media Negativity and Despair? (Guest: Charles Hudson, Managing Partner - Precursor Ventures)
Jul 16, 2020
How Do You Fix Tech's Diversity Problem? (Guest: Kobie Fuller, General Partner - Upfront Ventures)
Jul 09, 2020
Can We Restore Faith in Our Institutions? (Guest: Dave Pell, Founder of NextDraft)
Jun 25, 2020
What Does Tech Think of the Media? (Guest: Semil Shah, Founder/GP Haystack)
Jun 16, 2020
How will we remember our loved ones? (Guest, Amelia Lin, Co-Founder/CEO Saga)
Jun 12, 2020
Will You Find Love During Shelter in Place? (Guest, Dawoon Kang, Co-CEO - Coffee Meets Bagel)
Jun 05, 2020
What's it Like to Go Viral? (Guest: Jenn Takahashi, Best of Next Door)
May 27, 2020
What is the True Cost of Living in San Francisco? (Guest: Gina Fromer, Children's Council of San Francisco)
May 15, 2020
Is who you are on Twitter = who you are IRL? (Guest: Austen Allred, Founder/CEO of Lambda School)
May 11, 2020
Why is There Tension Between Tech and Journalism? (Guest: David Pierce, Protocol)
Apr 14, 2020
What's the Best Way to Manage Anxiety? (Guest: Tony Hale, Emmy Award Winning Actor in Veep, Arrested Development)
Mar 23, 2020
Will Coronavirus (COVID-19) delay the AirBnB IPO? (Guest, Cory Weinberg, Reporter, The Information)
Mar 06, 2020
What is Life Like After Being a Professional Athlete? (Guest: Justin Forsett, Former NFL Pro Bowler)
Mar 02, 2020
Is Tech Helping or Hurting American Communities? (Guest: Prakash Janakiraman, Co-Founder, Nextdoor)
Feb 10, 2020
Are Journalists Anti-Tech? (Guest: Kate Clark, Reporter, The Information)
Feb 07, 2020
What's the Most Important Job in the World? (Guest: Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram)
Jan 14, 2020
Special Episode - Silicon Valley Decade In Review (Guests: Antonio Garcia Martinez, Molly Wood)
Jan 06, 2020
What the Hell Happened at WeWork? (Guest: Eliot Brown, Wall Street Journal)
Dec 23, 2019
Don't Pay Your Water Bill? Pay the Consequences. (Guest: Tiffani Bell, The Human Utility)
Oct 14, 2019
If You're So Amazing, Why Are You Still Single? (Guest: Amanda Bradford, Founder/CEO of The League)
Jul 31, 2019
Silicon Valley Does Not Care About Female Founders (Guest: Lisa Fetterman, Founder/CEO, Nomiku)
Jun 05, 2019
Are Smartphones Actually That Bad For You? (Guest: Tim Kendall, CEO of Moment, Former President of Pinterest)
May 23, 2019
Will it Take a Natural Disaster for People to Like Silicon Valley Again? (Guest: Susan MacTavish Best)
May 15, 2019
Do You Prefer Starbucks, Blue Bottle, or Philz? (Guests: Philz Coffee CEO Jacob Jaber, Techcrunch Reporter Kate Clark)
May 09, 2019
Is Homelessness Easier To Solve Than We Think? (Guest: Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland)
Mar 11, 2019
Can Theater Survive in the Age of Instagram? (Guests: Pam MacKinnon and Andy Donald, American Conservatory Theater)
Jan 24, 2019
Should You Tweet About Your Meditation Retreat to Myanmar? (Guest: Jessica Powell, Author, Former Head of Communications at Google)
Jan 22, 2019
Who Should Run Facebook? (Guest: Kara Swisher, Journalist, Co-Founder of Recode, New York Times Contributor)
Jan 07, 2019
Why Does Uber Get Such Bad Press? (Guest: Mike Isaac, Technology Reporter, New York Times)
Jan 07, 2019
Which Company is Causing the Most Harm to San Francisco? (Guest, Dennis Herrera, City Attorney - San Francisco)
Jan 07, 2019
Do you Really Need to be 'Passionate' to Start a Company? (Guest, Christina Stembel, Founder of Farmgirl Flowers)
Jan 07, 2019
Did Steve Jobs Really Get Turned Away at Flour + Water (Guest: David White, CEO of Ne Timeas Restaurant Group - owners of Flour + Water)?
Nov 26, 2018
How Hard is It to be an Immigrant in the Silicon Valley (Guests: DJ Patil, Suhas Patil)?
Sep 17, 2018
San Francisco: Where You Can Be Gainfully Employed With Tattoos (Guest: Veronica Belmont, Host of the IRL Podcast)
Aug 30, 2018
Tech Billionaires are Just Like Regular People.... Right? (Guest: Molly Wood, Host of 'Marketplace')
Aug 15, 2018
Your True Love May be at Another SoulCycle (Guest: Patti Stanger, The Millionaire Matchmaker)
Aug 08, 2018
Is San Francisco more like Paris, or New York? (Guest: Sam Lessin, Serial Entrepreneur)
Jul 31, 2018
Do Not Date Anyone from San Francisco (Guest: Amy Andersen, Founder of Linx Dating)
Jul 24, 2018
Is San Francisco Really All That Great? (Guest: Antonio García Martínez - NYT Bestselling Author of 'Chaos Monkeys')
Jul 12, 2018
The City is Burning Down
Jun 29, 2018
Living in San Francisco Is Not Straightforward (Guest: Rick Marini, Entrepreneur, Investor)
May 02, 2018
Nothing is Permanent in the Valley (Guest: James Currier, Managing Partner, NFX)
Apr 24, 2018
Can Tech Fix Democracy? (Guest: Jessica Alter, Founder - Tech For Campaigns)
Apr 18, 2018
San Francisco from an NPR Reporter's Perspective (Guest: Aarti Shahani, Tech Reporter for NPR)
Apr 16, 2018
Being Broke in San Francisco (Guest: Broke Ass Stuart, Mayoral Candidate, Writer)
Apr 12, 2018
About that thing called Youtube... (Guest: Hunter Walk, Homebrew Ventures)
Apr 09, 2018
Coffee Culture Sure Has Changed in Silicon Valley (Guest: Eileen Rinaldi, CEO of Ritual Coffee)
Apr 01, 2018
Crunched (Guest: Alexia Tsotsis, Former Editor-in-Chief of Techcrunch)
Apr 01, 2018
Something Changed After 2007 (Guest: Chris Michel, Photographer)
Apr 01, 2018