The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mark Moore, head of engineering at Uber Elevate, to talk about flying cars (2:05), starting out at NASA (2:35), why air taxis are inevitable (4:05), why were are in a “Wright Brothers era” of air taxis (6:50), planning to launch in five years (8:05), the gridlock problem (10:35), going pilotless (12:15), taking air taxis to the mass market (15:25), seeding a manufacturing boom (17:20), the pilot shortage (18:20), why our skies are about to get very crowded (20:45), how much it will cost (23:25), and why air taxis could convince us to give up our cars (25:25).
Pearson's Andy Bird: "Our business model was broken"
Stephen Levy: "Peak Facebook"
Antonio Garcia Martinez: "Silicon Valley's necessary delusions"
Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”
Throwback edition! A deep dive into the space race
Atai’s Christian Angermeyer: “Funding the psychedelic renaissance”
Archer Aviation’s Brett Adcock and Adam Goldstein: “The world is rooting for our air taxis”
Bonus Episode; Secrets of the Side Hustle- Tech for good with OLIO co-founder Tessa Clarke
Whatnot’s Grant Lafontaine: “Creating an eBay for millennials”
Gridware’s Tim Barat: “A Fitbit for power poles”
Yield Guild Games’ Gabby Dizon: “This video game is saving lives”
A very quick pause...
Endless West’s Alec Lee: “We make aged whisky - in 24 hours”
Jim Mellon: "Cultured meat will be bigger than electric vehicles"
BitBio’s Mark Kotter: “A single cell to feed the world”
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "San Francisco is a sinking ship"
Beacon's Fraser Robinson: "The more swear words people use to describe a problem, the bigger the opportunity"
Gitlab’s Sid Sidbrandij: “Meetings are expensive”
Cade Metz: “The human didn’t have a chance”
Larva Labs’ Matt Hall: “Creating cryptopunks"
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