While alt-meat and plant-based milks have seen an explosion in great products the past few years, plant-based cheese space hasn't seen the same level of new and exciting products.That might change soon as Ground Foods brings its cauliflower a

The Goodbye Show

Feb 12th, 2018 40m 41s

As you can probably tell, I'm not great at saying goodbye.Instead, when it comes to podcasts, I often just move on. Which is dumb and kinda sad since I had such a good time creating the NextMarket podcast and interacting with many of the li

From Skype to Sidewalk Robots: A Conversation with Starship's Ahti Heinla

Jul 19th, 2016 28m 55s

Ahti Heinla brought the world closer together when he helped build Skype as the founding engineer, but now he's moved onto another way to shrink space and time: sidewalk robots.Mike walks to Ahti about how he got the idea to start a sidewalk

#102: Mark Cuban

Jun 9th, 2016 53m 42s

The NextMarket Podcast is back after a long hiatus!The guest for this episode is Mark Cuban, who joins Mike to discuss:-The state of the 2016 Presidential campaign-Why he decided to discuss Donald Trump's wealth-The efforts by political i

Special: Pie, Robot

Sep 11th, 2015 25m 24s

Hey Everyone! I am pretty excited to announce a new podcast called Smart Kitchen Show. I know, I need to work on more original names, but I'm pretty proud of this new show. It's got great stories from makers in the foodtech and smart kitchen s

#101: John McAfee

Feb 10th, 2015 44m 54s

There may not be a more fascinating person in the world of tech than John McAfee. As the inventor of the first antivirus software, McAfee's had a fascinating career that's been periodically interspersed in recent years with international intrig

#99: Kevin Kelly (pt 2): History of Wired, Future of Publishing, 1000 True Fans, Cool Tools

Jan 4th, 2015 35m 49s

This is part 2 of the Kevin Kelly interview.Kevin Kelly, the first executive editor of Wired, talks about the magazine's early days, the future of publishing, his 1000 true fans rule and the huge work that is Cool Tools.Check out Kevin's si

#98: Kevin Kelly (pt 1): AI, Robots & Making a Non-Dystopian Tech Future

Dec 20th, 2014 29m 30s

This is part one of our conversation w/Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired, the guy behind Cool Tools, The "1000 True Fans" theory and much more.In this conversation, we talk mainly about how the future will change due to tech

NextMarket #97: A conversation with FTrain's Paul Ford

Dec 16th, 2014 32m 8s

We're Back!Today's guest is Paul Ford, the self proclaimed "Benjamin Button of Success". Paul is the guy behind Ftrain, a blog that started before there were blogs in 1997, as well as the throwback site for tech sentimentalists and retro-tec

#96: The Story Behind Ello With Paul Budnitz

Oct 11th, 2014 31m 30s

Guest: Creator of Ello, Paul BudnitzTwo weeks ago, the creator of Ello got off a plane to find he had 200 press interview requests in his email inbox.What happened? He and his new social network were in the first few hours of a viral explos

#95: From fake Steve Jobs to the writers room for HBO's Silicon Valley w/Dan Lyons

Sep 27th, 2014 39m 17s

I catch up with Dan Lyons, the creator of maybe the first big technology satire blog with Fake Steve Jobs and writer for HBO's Silicon Valley season 2.Dan talks about being in the writing room with Mike Judge, what his role in the writer's ro

#93: Jason Hirschhorn on running Sling, MySpace & Taking REDEF From Hobby To Company

Sep 7th, 2014 29m 54s

Guest: Jason HirschhornNearly two decades into when many started using email, most of us still have our favorite newsletter and valuable info we get via the inbox. Jason Hirschhorn, who put MTV into the Internet age and later helped run Sling

#88: Talking Byliner & The Hard Road For Publishing Startups With Richard Nash

Jun 28th, 2014 37m 55s

Guest: Richard NashThis week Mike visits with Richard Nash to hear about some of the difficulties Byliner, one of the most high profile publishing startups of recent years, faced as the company sees most of its senior management leave in the

#87: Talking Podcasts & MommyCast with the Copyright Alliance's Paul Vogelzang

May 24th, 2014 55m 57s

Guest: Paul VogelzangYou may not know this, but back in the early 2000s the Treasury Department started a podcast. The person behind that effort was Paul Vogelzang. But this conversation isn't about that podcast, but instead about the hugel

#86: A conversation with Howard Lindzon

May 17th, 2014 42m 3s

Guest: Howard LindzonHoward is an interesting guy. From being one of the first (maybe ever?) to sell a podcast creation (Wallstrip) for millions of dollars, to the founding of Stocktwits, a company which harnesses collective social knowledge

#82: Going multiplatform: From podcast to DirectTV with Off Camera's Sam Jones

Apr 12th, 2014 25m 16s

Guest: Off Camera's Sam JonesLast year I discovered Off Camera, a beautifully done multi-platform project by photographer and filmmaker Sam Jones. Not only were his guests amazing (Robert Downey Jr, Dave Grohl, etc) but the project was done s

Minisode: Going on Shark Tank With Doorbot's Jamie Siminoff

Apr 3rd, 2014 7m 45s

It's a NextMarket minisode!This episode features an excerpt from my Smart Home Show interview with Jamie Siminoff, who lifts the curtain on Shark Tank to show us what its like to go on and pitch in the tank. He talks about being up there pitc

#80: Surviving as a working writer in the e-book era with Simon Wood

Mar 29th, 2014 39m 16s

Guest: Mystery novelist Simon WoodOn this episode, I talk to Simon Wood, a long time mystery and horror novelist about surviving as a working writer. By his own account, Simon is a midlist writer who has seen his own publishers go out of busi

#79: Introducing Technology.FM and Going on Shark Tank with Unikey's Phil Dumas

Mar 22nd, 2014 30m 22s

Summary: Introducing Technology.FM and an interview with Phil Dumas, the first entrepreneur to get five offers on Shark TankThis week I do a little housekeeping, talking about a new tech podcast site I launched, www.technology.fm as well as t

#77: Jack Conte and Tom Merritt

Mar 7th, 2014 43m 16s

It's a 2 for 1 episode! In our first segment, we talk with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack returns to the show to let us know how his patron-model crowdfunding business is going, as well as talks about how to balance the life of tech entre

#75: Croncast's Kris Smith on the early days of podcasting

Feb 20th, 2014 42m 32s

Kris Smith has been podcasting since it was a thing, starting his seminal show, Croncast, in 2004 with his wife Betsy.I've gotten to know Kris a bit online, so I thought it would be fun to catch up with him to talk about the early days of pod

#74: Michael Connelly on bringing Bosch to the TV with Amazon Studios

Feb 13th, 2014 22m 51s

Michael Connelly is perhaps the most well known mystery novelist of his generation. Connelly is no stranger to Hollywood, having seen his novels Blood Work and Lincoln Lawyer make it to the big screen. However, his most well known character,

#73: Walt Mossberg on launching Re/Code & evolution of the technology columnist in the Internet era

Feb 6th, 2014 55m 1s

Walt Mossberg set the template for the modern personal technology column back in the early nineties when he switched from being a war correspondent for the Wall Street Journal to writing about tech.Since those early days Walt has continued to

#72: 99% Invisible's Roman Mars on becoming a podcaster

Jan 30th, 2014 48m 57s

99% Invisible's host, Roman Mars, calls his podcast a tiny radio show about design, but the show's listenership is anything but small. What started as a short four and a half minute radio show on public radio is now one of the most popular podc

#69: Man School's Caleb Bacon on podcasting and becoming a TV writer

Dec 23rd, 2013 37m 33s

This conversation is with podcaster and TV writer Caleb Bacon.Caleb and I talk about his time in Hollywood, how he worked up from the set of video assistant on the set of Deadwood to writing for Sullivan & Son, his start as a podcaster, the c