(BNS) Tech:NYC CEO Julie Samuels

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Julie Samuels shares her journey from a journalism major to a prominent figure in the tech advocacy space, detailing her experiences at NCSA, her work with EFF, and her role in founding Tech NYC. She discusses the evolution of the internet, the cultural differences between Silicon Valley and New York City, and the importance of community engagement in shaping the future of technology. Julie emphasizes the need for tech companies to be involved in civic issues and how Tech NYC aims to support and represent the tech industry in New York. 00:00 Introduction and Early Internet Experiences 02:11 Career Beginnings at NCSA 05:08 Transitioning to Journalism and Early Online News 08:00 The Shift in Journalism and the Dot Com Bubble 10:53 The Evolving New York Tech Scene 13:54 Joining EFF and First Amendment Advocacy 16:55 Mainstreaming of Internet Issues 19:53 Reflections on the Impact of Technology 21:05 The Optimism of the Tech Boom 24:19 Contrasting Silicon Valley and New York Tech 32:25 The Birth of Tech NYC 42:34 Tech NYC's Role in Today's Landscape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is inevitable that tech will be, if it isn't already the biggest industry in the city.
0:05.6	Listen, I run an organization called Tech NYC.
0:07.4	I have no idea how you define that.
0:09.8	Every company is a tech company, like, say whatever you want to say it, right?
0:14.8	As the city makes that transition, we spend our time at Tech NYC thinking about what that means for New York
0:22.5	politically, what that means culturally,
0:25.2	what does that mean civically,
0:26.3	what does it mean philanthropically?
0:28.0	As technology,
0:30.1	both the people and companies building it
0:32.8	and the technology itself
0:34.2	changes our city,
0:35.7	we want to make sure that that transition lifts as many
0:38.7	boats as possible. Julie Samuels, thanks for talking to us today. Thanks for having me.
0:49.9	We're going to use this in a lot of different places, but one of the places we're going to use
0:53.4	this is the Internet History podcast. And for those purposes, anybody that's listened to that podcast, you went to the University of Illinois. I did. I have some internet history. That, okay. So champagne Urbana. Champaign Urbana. Oh, I'm sorry.
1:12.2	I don't know where my accent's coming from.
1:14.8	Mosaic and CSA.
1:15.4	Okay.
1:17.3	When were you there?
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:19.3	Did you overlap with all that?
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