
What do frog legs, cloud computing, and failure have in common?
They’re all part of the messy, magnificent story of how we got here.
I’m Jamie Dobson - author of Visionaries, Rebels and Machines — and in this podcast, I’ll take you on a journey through the ideas, accidents, and breakthroughs that shaped our digital world.
From Edison’s lightbulb moment to the birth of the cloud…
From the engineers... more
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 17 | Founded | a year ago |
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Intel is drowning in its own success: memory chips made Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove rich, then Japanese rivals like Fujitsu and Hitachi arrive with better DRAM, leaving Intel trapped in denial as recession bites and customers complain. ... more
Intel invents a technology that will change the world, yet fails to see its true potential. As rivals close in and pressure mounts, Andy Grove develops the ruthless management playbook that still influences Silicon Valley today. Then a single busines... more
Intel nearly threw away the invention that changed the world. Meanwhile, Andy Grove was wrestling with a management experiment that could either save the company or break it. This episode reveals how a series of unlikely decisions helped shape the fu... more
From a failed digital watch to the philosophy that would remake modern management, this is the story of Andy Grove learning to lead when neither he nor Intel had a blueprint. It traces how fear, flawed products, difficult people and Peter Drucker’s i... more
From fleeing war-torn Europe to walking into the heart of Silicon Valley, this is a story of survival turning into something much bigger. It traces how one outsider navigated identity, ambition, and opportunity to shape the modern tech world. And jus... more
A boy survives war and oppression, making impossible decisions just to stay alive. At the same time, a quiet breakthrough in technology is about to reshape the world. Their paths are worlds apart, yet they’re closer than you’d think.
Find out more a... more
Before computers were machines, they were people crunching numbers by hand and making mistakes that shaped history. This episode uncovers how a scattered set of ideas about code, logic, and machines finally clicked into something world changing. And ... more
History is messier and darker than your textbooks ever told you, and this finale pulls no punches. It connects the telegraph, racism, and propaganda to the tech and algorithms shaping your world right now. If you think technology is neutral, this epi... more
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