What's next for Stripe and online payments

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Cracking the ed-tech market: Duolingo cofounder and chief executive Luis von Ahn talks to the FT's Tim Bradshaw about creating the snackable language learning app that now serves more than 150m global users, and how the company's model can be translated into other digita... by FT Tech Tonic

35 min listen

Disrupting the banking industry: Mike Cagney, chief executive and founder of online lender SoFi, talks to the FT's Tom Braithwaite about building a fintech company from refinancing student loans; the high-income millennials the service targets; and why they use tools like job sea... by FT Tech Tonic

27 min listen

Keeping the cyber hackers at bay: Nadav Zafrir, a former Israeli intelligence officer and co-founder of cyber security company Team8, talks to John Thornhill about tracking down cyber criminals and training the tech entrepreneurs of the future by FT Tech Tonic

24 min listen

Harnessing the technological revolution: Tech utopia or tech dystopia? Carlota Perez of the London School of Economics talks to John Thornhill about the radical changes she believes are needed if we are to harness the benefits of the current technological revolution by FT Tech Tonic

22 min listen

Inside Google's innovation factory: Alphabet's research and development lab X is the breeding ground for Google's biggest technological bets, including self-driving cars and a network of internet-providing balloons. Astro Teller, the entrepreneur and scientist at the helm of X,... by FT Tech Tonic

23 min listen

When machines outsmart their human designers: Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, was one of the first researchers to sound the alarm bell on the risks of developing artificial intelligence. He joins the FT's Richard Water... by FT Tech Tonic

25 min listen

Engineering your own chatbot: Lili Cheng and her team at Microsoft's FUSE Labs are at the forefront of research on social interaction with artificial intelligence. She joins the FT's Richard Waters to discuss the evolution of chatbot technology, what the company learnt fr... by FT Tech Tonic

32 min listen

Truth, lies and how to separate fact from fiction: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, talks to John Thornhill about truth and lies, the role of the media, and his mission to make the sum of human knowledge available to people all over the world by FT Tech Tonic

20 min listen

Fighting back against the throwaway culture: Kyle Wiens, chief executive of iFixit, made his name by tearing apart mobile phones and laptops to understand how they were built and publishing his findings in open source repair manuals. He talks to the FT's Tim Bradshaw about the risks involved... by FT Tech Tonic

20 min listen

The changing face of Russian cyber espionage: Kevin Mandia, chief executive of cyber security firm FireEye, joins the FT's Hannah Kuchler to discuss how Russian hackers changed the rules of engagement of cyber espionage. Mr Mandia and his company, Mandiant, came to prominence in 2013 when it... by FT Tech Tonic

33 min listen

Sharing the cost of driving: Frédéric Mazzella tells the story of BlaBlaCar, the ride-sharing company he founded, which now operates in over 20 countries, and talks about the rise of tech entrepreneurship in France. by FT Tech Tonic

25 min listen

The driverless car revolution: Driverless cars will improve our lives dramatically but, as with all technologies, there will be a dark side as millions of jobs disappear, Vivek Wadhwa, entrepreneur and academic, tells John Thornhill. by FT Tech Tonic

19 min listen

Uber's plans for aviation on demand: Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, talks to the FT's Leslie Hook about the company's ambitious plans for aviation on demand. by FT Tech Tonic

22 min listen

When data rules the world: John Thornhill talks to author and historian Yuval Noah Harari about his vision of a future when humans are no longer the smartest algorithm on the planet. by FT Tech Tonic

26 min listen

The virtue of cash: Rutger Bregman tells John Thornhill there is evidence to show that we can end poverty by handing out cash to those who need it. The idea of a universal basic income is one whose time has come, he says, and it is finding support in unexpected places... by FT Tech Tonic

23 min listen

Blazing a trail for women in tech: Madhumita Murgia, the FT's European technology correspondent, talks to Dame Stephanie Shirley, a pioneer of the computer software industry and one the first female tech entrepreneurs about how she fell in love with computers. by FT Tech Tonic

20 min listen

What self-driving cars could do for robotics: Jeremy Conrad, co-founder of hardware incubator and VC fund Lemnos Labs, talks to the FT's Tim Bradshaw about the way economies of scale in the self-driving car industry could bolster the field of robotics. by FT Tech Tonic

30 min listen

Coding for everyone: Madhumita Murgia speaks to Kathryn Parsons about her work in promoting digital literacy through the company she co-founded, Decoded, which aims to teach people to code in a day. by FT Tech Tonic

25 min listen

What's next for Stripe and online payments: Stripe's John Collison speaks to the FT's Leslie Hook about what he and his co-founder brother have planned for the $9bn online payments company, why Silicon Valley is still their preferred place to have their headquarters and what it is like... by FT Tech Tonic

24 min listen

How US companies find the right talent: Mehul Patel, chief executive of Hired, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about hiring trends in Silicon Valley and other technology hubs in the US, and what some companies are doing in response to President Donald Trump's executive action on i... by FT Tech Tonic

19 min listen

Hacking foreign policy: As the first US ambassador to Silicon Valley, Zvika Krieger is trying to harness the tech capital's brain power to solve some of the country's biggest foreign policy challenges. He talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler. by FT Tech Tonic

29 min listen

Mary Lou Jepsen on the wearable MRI: Scientist and former Facebook and Google executive Mary Lou Jepsen talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about her latest startup, Openwater, where she and a team of researchers are working to develop a ski helmet-sized imaging device that will one day... by FT Tech Tonic

28 min listen

Living in a modern surveillance state: Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about government surveillance in the US after the Snowden revelations, and how it could all change under a Tru... by FT Tech Tonic

32 min listen

What lies ahead for AR: Matt Miesnieks, creator of one of the first augmented reality apps and co-founder of startup 6D, tells the FT's Tim Bradshaw about the technological advances that make AR possible, and what needs to happen if it is to fulfill its promise. by FT Tech Tonic

35 min listen

Science and security: Entrepreneur Tom Ilube talks about his work with scientists to deploy their research in the battle against cybercrime, tech advances and education in Africa and why companies need to take cyber security more seriously. by FT Tech Tonic

24 min listen

The future of work: What will displaced professionals and workers do when intelligent machines take their jobs? Will poets, thinkers and musicians become sought-after occupations? Or will people slump into a world of virtual reality entertainment? Tim Bradshaw discusses... by FT Tech Tonic

24 min listen

Re-empowering the consumer: Nigel Shadbolt, co-founder of the Open Data Institute, talks to John Thornhill about the imbalance between the personal and private control of data and the need to re-empower the consumer. by FT Tech Tonic

23 min listen

Tim Wu on addictive apps: The author of "The Attention Merchants" talks to John Thorhnill about his concerns about the way some web apps are eating into our time by FT Tech Tonic

26 min listen

Political disruption and the internet: Helen Margetts, head of the Oxford Internet Institute, talks to the FT's Madhumita Murgia about fake news, echo chambers, big data and why we need more research to be able to combat the "pathologies" of the internet. by FT Tech Tonic

20 min listen

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