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The Times Tech Podcast

DoNotPay’s Josh Browder: “A bot to build bots”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Josh Browder to talk about building a robot lawyer DoNotPay (3:40), raising money (7:10), overturning parking tickets (10:10), targeting problems that affect at least 50 million people (12:05) his bot builder (13:00), his Silicon Valley evolution (14:55), becoming an investor himself (16:40), becoming a Thiel fellow (18:00), staying in the Bay Area (20:50), the free trial scam (23:10), the porn industry’s dirty tricks (24:50), getting more cynical (27:15), the importance of having a business model (30:00), and suing robo-callers (31:10).

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0:32.5

Yo, technology.

0:35.3

What is it all about?

0:36.7

What we found is the adult industry and all of the shady stuff,

0:39.3

they're just completely ripping off consumers.

0:42.3

People are so ashamed to complain about exercising their legal rights

0:46.3

or even phoning up their credit card company

0:48.3

that they know that they can rip off consumers.

0:51.3

But it's actually the biggest area that we see as growing in terms of

0:54.8

grievances.

1:01.6

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and

1:06.1

inside the minds of the top people in tech. I am your host, Danny Fawkinson, the West Coast correspondent

1:12.4

for the Sunday Times, coming to you live from the hellscape that is California. I'm sure

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