
Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watche... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 67 | Founded | a year ago |
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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman came on Core Memory together for a ten-year look back at OpenAI. It’s also the first time they’ve done a media podcast together.
We juiced every second of our 90 minutes with the cofounders of OpenAI. We got into the com... more
Guinness. Sharks. American manufacturing. These are a few of the interests I share with the founders of Ulysses, a San Francisco startup building autonomous underwater drones.
The idea for Ulysses started when one of the four co-founders was on a su... more
We’re in a moment of insatiable desire for more energy and more computing. And so the ideas of how to provide said energy and computing are getting ever more adventurous.
Case in point: Panthalassa, which is the subject of this week’s episode, along... more
Three years ago, I’d caught some videos online of paralyzed people walking again. This struck me as miraculous. It also confused me. If paralyzed people were moving again, why weren’t more people talking about this incredible occurrence?
The company... more
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Ashlee is phenomenal at translating the tech expertise of innovators into digestible off-the-cuff narratives with questions that escape most interviewers. Core Memory gives you a cutting edge view into all corners of the tech industry.
Ashlee Vance has a broad interest in companies at the cutting edge of their fields. He gets the most interesting guests, and I often see them on other bigger podcasts a few weeks later
Ashlee Vance has been writing interesting, well-sourced, fact-based, entertaining stories about tech for decades. His love of some of the misfits, mad geniuses and visionaries who inhabit the tech world is tempered with equally healthy doses of skepticism and humor.
If there’s a person making a flux capacitor in his basement, with the hope of building a time machine to go back to a simpler time when eggs were cheap and browser wars were leading the news, Ashlee has probably interviewed her and... more
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A tech-leaning interview show that features founders, researchers, and industry executives discussing frontier science, engineering, and disruptive business models. Episodes center on ambitious hardware, biotech breakthroughs, AI, and space-scale projects, often weaving personal journeys with bold market bets, regulatory realities, and manufacturing challenges. A standout thread is the exploration of hardware-first and AI-enabled solutions at scale, from ocean robotics and autonomous data centers to brain-computer interfaces and gene-editing therapies, with a clear emphasis on how science translates into real-world impact. This mix of storytelling and expert analysis makes it a strong fit for listeners who want deep, technically grounded co... more
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1. Will O'Brien
2. Garth Sheldon-Coulson
3. Dave Marver
4. Pedro Franceschi
5. Baiju Bhatt
6. Paul Conyngham
7. Nabiha Saklayen
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