VentureBeat's What to Think Podcast

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Latest Episodes

Innovation Engines: Ashish Kuthiala, HP Enterprise
July 01, 2016

Ashish Kuthiala is a senior director for HP Enterprise, overseeing the organization's DevOps portfolio. We talked to him about the transformation of enterprise architectures toward technologies that support a more nimble, agile DevOps stance -- a...

Innovation Engines: Ambarish Mitra, Blippar
March 18, 2016

Ambarish "Rish" Mitra is the CEO of Blippar, an augmented reality platform that dozens of brands are using to add interactivity to their products. Point the Blippar app at a logo, and you can unlock virtual games and extra content. But...

Innovation Engines: John Purrier, Automic
February 12, 2016

John Purrier is a founder and board member of OpenStack, and is currently Chief Technology Officer for Automic. We talk with him about the transformation of enterprise IT architectures and about the need for automation and integration of...

Innovation Engines: David Wadhwani, AppDynamics
January 19, 2016

David Wadhwani joined AppDynamics as its CEO and president in late 2015 after a storied career at Adobe. AppDynamics, which provides application monitoring services for developers and enterprises, recently raised $150 million in a round that...

Innovation Engines: Kakul Srivastava, GitHub
December 22, 2015

Kakul Srivastava is the vice president of product management at Github, the collaborative service used by over 12 million developers to share software code. We caught up with her recently to talk about how Github has evolved into a platform (and what...

Innovation Engines: Jonathan Rende, Castlight Health
December 09, 2015

Jonathan Rende is the chief research officer for Castlight Health, a company that aims to bring transparency to the U.S. healthcare market by giving employees of its client companies detailed information on what medical procedures cost at various...

Innovation Engines: Tomasz Tunguz, Redpoint Capital
November 11, 2015

This week's guest, Tomasz Tunguz, is a partner at Redpoint Capital, where he focuses on SaaS investments. He's become quite well-known for an influential blog and newsletter where he writes daily, data-driven posts about key issues facing...

The CMO's Dilemma: Kieran Hannon, Belkin
October 10, 2015

This week, we talk to Kieran Hannon, the loquacious and influential chief marketing officer of Belkin, the massive maker of technology accessories, routers, and more. Plus, we give you the latest news on Amazon Web Services, Twitter, and Microsoft's...

Innovation Engines: Josh Elman, Master Growth Hacker
September 04, 2015

Josh Elman is a VC at Greylock and a veteran of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. He knows more than almost anyone about building platforms and growing users. We talk to him about both of those topics in the latest edition of our "Innovation Engines"...

Innovation Engines: Matt Mullenweg, WordPress and Automattic
August 07, 2015

This week on VentureBeat's podcast, we talk to Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and founder of Automattic. Mullenweg describes how he created the blogging platform, which now powers 24% of the Web -- and why open source has been critical to...