Silicon Insider Episode 50

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider, co-host Mike Malone conducts a compelling interview with Silicon Valley Pioneer, Tech Legend, and Venture Capitalist, Bill Davidow. Topics include the consequences of freeware and social media communication, the valley then versus now, and more. 

Since co-host Scott Budman is out of town this week, Mike enlists veteran South Bay Journalist Ed Clendaniel (Editor of the Editorial Page at The San Jose Mercury News) for an conversation about the state of the Silicon Valley.

On this week's episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, Mike and Scott attempt to make sense of one of the strangest and scariest weeks in modern American History.

Topics for this week include: Elon Musk's gobsmacking profits and potential road to redemption, the deep ramifications of Presidents Trumps threats to the tech industry, particularly twitter, California Unemployment rates hit two-month low, HBO officially enters the streaming wars, and much more.

On this week's (one year anniversary episode!) of The Silicon Insider Podcast, hosts Mike Malone and Scott Budman discuss the latest with life under lockdown and how it's fairing for the tech industry. Topics include: a growing legion of tech companies telling employees they can work from home forever, big layoffs at IBM and Uber, contract tracing controversy, a scientific breakthrough with the development of a single atom transistor, and much more.

On the latest episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast, we switch it up. Though still covering the week's biggest tech headlines, host's Mike Malone and Scott Budman stretch their legs this time and discuss at-length the state of the outbreak and the potential resulting paradigm shifts. Other topics include Uber's acquisition of Grubhub, the stunning (and damning) implications of working-from-home's productivity, and the game of chicken between a more-erratic-than-usual Elon Musk, Tesla, and Alameda County.

On the 50th Episode of The Silicon Insider Podcast (time flies), Mike and Scott discuss the latest in tech, including video game industry growth, Peleton success, Uber failure, Silicon Valley real estate stasis, and more.

On this week's episode, Mike and Scott attempt to recap a particularly wild week in Corona-stricken California and the greater tech world. Topics include: the sudden shift to driverless cars and drones for delivery work, earnings again (somehow), Musk's manic episode, more tech layoffs, NASA's selection of both SpaceX and Blue Origin to build the next lunar lander, and more.

Mike and Scott ponder the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on culture, social interaction and our collective memory as novel concepts like ‘social distancing’ transform into the status quo. Other topics include impressive tech earnings, Zoom's continual growth even after the backlash, Apple's expected release of various model 12 iPhones, Gilead's growing modesty with unpromising "Corona-cure" tests, Google halts deal to purchase large tract of Mountain View, and much more.

On this week's epsiode, Mike and Scott discuss the tech industry’s oddly normal news week as it sees stock market’s best week in nearly half a century. Meanwhile, unemployment grows and grows. The increasingly certain question remains: when will the economy crash? Other topics include: Google buys up even mores South Bay real estate, Gilead Sciences claims a corona cure is well on its way, Verizon buys San Jose-based video-conferencing firm Blue Jeans, and much more .