Episodes

Aug. 25, 2020

Building for Return on Environment with Product Strategist Dani Laity

Natasha asks Dani Laity of Aurora Sustainability to unpack the sustainable tech product strategies and monetization models powering Aurora Sustainability—2020 Noonie Nominee in for Best Use of Tech for Good in hackernoon.com’s annual internet awards! VOT...

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Aug. 19, 2020

Monica Quaintance and Lisa JY Tan on Public Blockchains — Design, Sec…

Monica Quaintance, who is the Head of Research and Networks at Kadena Blockchain. She’s a former Senior Data Engineer at Rent the Runway and a former Quantitative Analytics Engineer at the SEC. Joining Utsav Jaiswal from Hacker Noon as co-host …

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Aug. 10, 2020

How (and Why) to Build and Launch Products in 24hrs with Zoe Chew

Natasha Nel interviews 6x Noonie Nominee*, hackernoon.com Contributor, and Prolific Maker, Zoe Chew, to talk Product, Tech, Startups, and Marketing. *PUBLIC NOMS CLOSE AT NOON ON WED, 12 AUG: Last chance to get your best in tech (or yourself) nominated...

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July 22, 2020

Clarity programming language talk with Diwaker Gupta, Aaron Blankstei…

Utsav Jaiswal hosts Diwaker Gupta, Head of Engineering at Blockstack, Aaron Blankstein, Engineer at Blockstack, Maurice Herlihy, Engineer and Advisor at Algorand and Alberto Cuesta Canada, Lead Blockchain Instructor at BeyondSkills and a Hacker Noon cont...

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July 13, 2020

BREAKING: Hacker Noon’s 2020 Noonies Awards Launches TODAY at noonies…

Join Hacker Noon’s Managing Editor, Natasha Nel, for a quick briefing on this year’s biggest, greenest and most independent tech industry awards: Hacker Noon’s prestigious #Noonies. . The 2020 #Noonies are made possible by Amplify Brokerage, the world’s...

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July 9, 2020

Why Mahbod wants the President of Genius.com to be Black

Mahbod Moghadam, a Co-Founder of Rap Genius, a founding member of Everipedia, a Yale and Stanford alumni, joins Utsav Jaiswal on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss the need for more black leadership and why the CEO of biggest black-culture …

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July 8, 2020

Who is Linh Dao Smooke? A conversation about Entrepreneurship, Leader…

Linh Dao Smooke discusses Entrepreneurship, running Hacker Noon, and the importance of education with Henry Le of Vietnam Tech Society. Linh shares how her opportunity to study abroad in India at age 17 has shaped the course of her life …

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July 7, 2020

Decentralized Chat Protocols with Unstoppable Domains Co-Founder and …

Bradley Kam, Co-Founder, and CRO at Unstoppable Domains, joins Utsav Jaiswal and Arthur Tkachenko on the Hacker Noon Podcast to discuss how decentralization enables censorship-resistant peer to peer communication. Bradley discusses how decentralized regi...

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June 25, 2020

“I Was Making More Money Than God” - John McAfee on the Hacker Noon P…

John McAfee talks about making more money than God on the Hacker Noon podcast hosted by David Smooke. https://podcast.hackernoon.com/ McAfee starts off with the impact of one's childhood and how it shapes perspectives. He shares his experiences as an en...

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June 20, 2020

The power of decentralization, applications development and human rig…

Juan Benet, CEO at Protocol Labs, founder of IPFS and Filecoin, joins Utsav Jaiswal and Vaibhav Saini, a Hacker Noon contributing writer, on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss everything Web 3.0. They talk about the lifespan of new applications …

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June 19, 2020

How to build cryptocurrency exchange from scratch by Adam Todd, CEO &…

Adam Todd, Lead Developer and CEO of Digitex Futures Exchange, joins Utsav Jaiswal to share his journey in trading and discuss what it takes to build a cryptocurrency exchange. They discuss cryptocurrency space in general, bitcoin, and the effort behind...

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June 15, 2020

How to Build a Tech Podcast and Engage the Community by Jennifer Hoop…

Jennifer Hooper, the Producer at Code[ish] and Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing, Content, and Brand at Heroku, joins Utsav Jaiswal to share her insights to building a tech podcast. Code[ish] focuses on code, technology and the life of the dev...

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June 3, 2020

Your Brain on Instagram Activism

Natasha Nel, Managing Editor at Hacker Noon, has a meandering conversation with the addiction psychologist who lives in her house — in his non-professional capacity — about what might happening to Our Brains on Social Media, as we stand in …

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May 28, 2020

Trump vs. The Internet

What just happened to the internet!? Did our President just sign an executive order that forces social media platforms to be his personal mega phone? Hacker Noon CPO Dane Lyons and CEO David Smooke discuss the possible implications on 45's …

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May 19, 2020

How to Recover from Losing Half Your Revenue While Testing Positive f…

Jim Huffman, CEO of GrowthHit, husband, father of two girls, and author of The Growth Marketer’s Playbook — which “was #1 on Amazon until Seth Godin launched his new book and then it was quickly not #1” — joins Natasha …

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May 19, 2020

Spotify Makes Exclusive Deal for All Joe Rogan Content - What's Next …

Linh Dao Smooke and David Smooke discuss Joe Rogan's upcoming deal with Spotify and the potential implications for internet creators worldwide. Is this a turning point of the internet? Or just the next NBC licensing Friends and The Office to …

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May 8, 2020

Open Orchard’s Andrew Levine Discusses Decentralization, Distributed …

CEO of Open Orchard, Ex Head of Communications & Advocacy at Steemit Andrew Levine joins Utsav Jaiswal to discuss whither blockchain, what inspired Andrew and his team at Open Orchard to start their project on launching new Blockchain Koinos, the …

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May 1, 2020

Washington Post’s Ben Golliver Discusses NBA’s Microsoft Partnership,…

Washington Post NBA Reporter Ben Golliver joins David Smooke on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss Microsoft winning the NBA deal, what the Kawhi Leonard logo lawsuit means for the shoe industry, how the reporter’s tech stack has evolved over …

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April 8, 2020

Holochain Deep Dive with Arthur Brock and Eric-Harris-Braun

Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube. In this episode Utsav Jaiswal interviews Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun, Co-Founders of Holochain - an Open Source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications. They tal...

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March 27, 2020

Linh Dao Smooke and Utsav Jaiswal discuss Decentralization, Challenge…

Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube. In this episode Linh Dao Smooke and Utsav Jaiswal interview Alex Tinsman, President at NEM.io Foundation and NEM’s CTO Nate D’Amico. They discuss cryptocurrency adoption, difference between NEM, a ...

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Feb. 3, 2020

How One Bain Consultant’s Medical Debt Led Him to Become the Consulta…

Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube. In this episode David Smooke interviews Davis Nguyen, Founder of My Consulting Offer. They discuss Davis's way into consulting, insights on social media marketing, and people’s m...

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Jan. 17, 2020

Blockchain, Cardano and Smart Contracts with Charles Hoskinson - Card…

Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube. In this episode HackerHodl (Utsav) interviews Cardano co-Founder and IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson. They discuss Cardano as a blockchain and an enabler of functional Smart Contracts...

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Dec. 4, 2019

Decentralized Discussions with Startup CEOs Mark Nadal and David Smoo…

Back from migration hiatus! Tune in to Mark Nadal, creator of the GUN decentralized database, and David Smooke, Founder & CEO of Hacker Noon, discussing open source, decentralization, faagm, and a bit about their upcoming partnership. Read more: https:/...

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Aug. 29, 2019

E62 - Banking the Unbanked with Anton Mozgovoy - Former VP of Technol…

Episode 62 of the Hacker Noon Podcast: An interview with Former VP of Technology at Humaniq, Anton Mozgovoy Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube. In this episode Derek Bernard interviews Hacker Noon contributing …

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