Things sometimes go well.

Or so we hope.

Our new tech entrepreneur is in a new city with a new company, a new investment and a new start.

Maybe.

Or maybe not.

Vinny and SidePocket start operations in Silicon Valley.  The second episode in the audio drama.

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad OBrien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

It’s an ordinary story.

And perhaps a bit of a fantasy.

But perhaps our time  could benefit from an ordinary story.

A young African-American leaves Detroit in the mid-1980s to see what he might do in Silicon Valley and in the process, learns something about investment, governance and decisions (both good and bad).  Revisiting the audio drama of Vinny and SidePocket

• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Noah Masur – Curt
• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Jake Minevich – Dennis
• Skippy – Himself

Thomas Piketty?

Don’t get what he’s saying?

Not sure you care?

Zach, who is back, and Maddie, who has never left tell us what is important about the writings of this economist

Or maybe not.

Dr. Piketty wrote one of the more controversial book of the past 10 years.  Maddie will tell you why.

And “R” makes and appearance.  But not “G”.

• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Noah Masur – Zach, who is back
• Skippy – Himself

Are you coming?

Are you going?

Do you have a place in this world?

Or do you not?

Roger.  Yasmin.  Existential questions.  And the power of warm drinks.

The nineteenth  episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Sahara Ale – Yasmin
• Zoe Anastassiou – Faith
• Ron Bianchi  – Roger
• Geoffrey Grier – Customer #1
• Josh LaForce – Customer #2
• Noah Masur – Barista & Andre
• Skippy – Himself

Are you famous?

Fame we court.

Fame we try to wield (before it weilds us.

But are you famous?

Not the best question to hear when you are trying to understand what is happening.

Even if you’re not famous.

Not famous at all.

The eighteenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Zoe Anastassiou – Wee Sister #1
• Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton
• Anastasia Deloret – Wee Sister #2
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Kit Kuksenok – Kowalski
• Skippy – Himself

He doesn’t visit often.

When he does, there’s always trouble.

Or he thinks there’s trouble.

Or maybe heard that there might be trouble.

The Producer comes to visit our Washington Office and faces a cast that thinks (or wishes or hopes) that things are better than they are.

The seventeenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Sahara Ale – Yasmin
• Margaux Ami – Evelyn
• Ron Bianchi – The Producer
• Anastasia Deloret – Karine from the EU Office
• Josh LaForce – Sulley
• Skippy – Himself

Life is busy.

There’s no time to read.

Or view YouTube videos.

Or even listen to podcasts.

So Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur an Bix, the Master Scrum Master, give you a thorough overview of Clayton Christensen’s masterwork, the Innovators Dilemma.

It is perhaps the most influential business book of our age.  It was the centerpiece of the late Dr. Christensen’s career.  It’s important cultural icon.

And, of course, Bix hasn’t read it.

And Maddie has read it too well.

• Zoe Anastassiou – Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Ron Bianchi – Bix the Master Scrum Master
• Skippy – Himself

It was supposed to be easy.

A way to build trust.

A simple public talk at a sympathetic organization.

But there were protestors. And a badly prepared speech. And a host who didn’t seem to realize what was happening.

Abby Alton, CEO of Talking and Shopping, addresses the public and finds herself backed into a corner when all goes wrong.

The sixteenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton, CEO of T&S
• Anastasia Deloret – Karine Tissarand, Head of HWMS EU Office
• Geoffrey Grier –  Vinny of HWMS
• Josh LaForce – Head of HWMS Washington Office
• Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Anna of T&S
• Skippy – Himself

IAD?

IDA?

What’s the difference?

What is the import of the flip of one letter?

The expanded team gathers in Washington.  Vinny from Washington.  Karine from Brussels.  Time to get the leaders of the tech giant Talking and Shopping ready for a Congressional Hearing.

But there is that little issue.  IAD vs IDA.  It changes the plans but the results might be best for all.

The fifteenth episode of the Audio Drama “What Big Tech Doesn’t Know.”

• Sahara Ale – Yasmin, Attorney-Advisor
• Anastasia Deloret – Karine Tissarand, Head of HWMS EU Office
• Kit Kuksenok –  Ed Kowalski of T & S
• Noah Masur – UPS Delivery Person; FedEx Delivery Person; Hyung Tai, Delivery Person and part owner of Gangnum Cleaners
• Skippy – Himself