Martha Lane Fox: “A Geneva Convention for the web”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Martha Lane Fox, dotcom pioneer and Twitter board member, to talk about the tech industry’s hubris (2:00), joining Twitter (5:45), explaining the Internet in 1995 (8:50), launching lastminute.com (11:50), creating a unicorn twenty years ago (13:35), which quickly became a pariah (16:15), almost dying in a car accident (17:45), rebuilding a career (19:30), the need for a Geneva Convention of the web (21:35), tech’s sexism problem (24:05), the dangers of screen time (28:00), her worst day of work (29:55), creating a “fair trade” style brand for responsible websites (32:30), designing for the “furthest first” (35:15), London’s effort to rival Silicon Valley (37:05), and why the old Parliament building should be closed down (40:00).

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0:00.0	The people of Britain love their fancy blenders.
0:03.2	They've bought loads of them.
0:05.5	And luckily, if they bought them with Barclay Card, they earned rewards.
0:09.4	In fact, they'll earn rewards on all their eligible purchases.
0:13.1	It's a more convenient way to consume your fruit and veg.
0:16.6	What you buy is your business.
0:18.9	Giving you rewards on purchases is ours.
0:21.7	Barclay card.
0:22.7	Make money work for you.
0:24.3	28.9% APR representative variables subject to application, financial circumstances and borrowing
0:28.7	history.
0:29.2	T's and Cs and Cs apply.
0:32.4	Yo.
0:34.3	Technology.
0:35.3	What is it all about?
0:44.3	Welcome to another edition of Danny in the Valley. Thank you for tuning in and loading down or downloading. It's a special one this week. I'm actually not in the Valley. I'm in London on a few work things, so I've taken the opportunity to speak to a few of the big wigs out on these shores.
0:55.8	And to that end, this week, our very special guest is none other than Martha Lane Fox.
1:01.8	Martha, as many of you know, founded Last Minute.com back in the late 1990s.
1:06.3	It was one of the great emblematic companies of the first dot-com boom.
1:11.0	Scaled massive heights, plumbed, very low depths, and somehow has managed to stay alive some 20 years on,
1:18.6	even if in a much more low-profile form.
1:21.7	So we talk about loads of stuff, including Twitter, where she sits on the board of directors.
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