The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Martha Lane Fox, dotcom pioneer and Twitter board member, to talk about the tech industry\u2019s hubris (2:00), joining Twitter (5:45), explaining the Internet in 1995 (8:50), launching lastminute.com (11:50), creating a unicorn twenty years ago (13:35), which quickly became a pariah (16:15), almost dying in a car accident (17:45), rebuilding a career (19:30), the need for a Geneva Convention of the web (21:35), tech\u2019s sexism problem (24:05), the dangers of screen time (28:00), her worst day of work (29:55), creating a \u201cfair trade\u201d style brand for responsible websites (32:30), designing for the \u201cfurthest first\u201d (35:15), London\u2019s effort to rival Silicon Valley (37:05), and why the old Parliament building should be closed down (40:00).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.