Bullish

These ad execs have a venture fund they’d like to sell you

Mike Duda comes from the world of advertising. In fact, he spent 13 years at the renowned ad agency Deutsch, becoming the youngest partner in the company’s history until another creative, Brent Vart

Grove just raised $8 million to make traditional financial planning affordable to pretty much everyone

Financial advisors aren’t cheap to use. They aren’t always seen as trustworthy, either, with many advisors receiving — or perceived as receiving — incentives for recommending c

Bullish: No tech company is immune from discrimination and sexual harassment

Tech's diversity problem isn't going to go away anytime soon, if ever. On a scale of one to 10 -- 10 being tech is doing the most amazing job ever with diversity and inclusion -- eBay Chief Diversity

Bullish: The future of food on demand

This week on Bullish, I sat down with DoorDash CEO Tony Xu to talk about the future of on-demand food delivery. In January, DoorDash teamed up with Starship Technologies to test food delivery via robo

You can listen to Crunch Report and Bullish on iTunes

Now you can listen to your favorite TechCrunch shows in the car, on a run or wherever you desire! TechCrunch’s Crunch Report and Bullish are officially available in the iTunes store in audio-onl

A conversation with Sam Altman about politics, startups and tech

Since the election of 45, the worlds of tech and politics have collided. Between tech leaders at Google, Facebook and other tech companies speaking out against 45’s executive order on immigrati

Bullish: Tech tackles criminal justice reform

It’s no secret that the criminal justice system in the United States is broken. With 2.2 million people behind bars in prisons and jails in the country, the U.S. has the largest prison populat

Imgur’s Sarah Schaaf on building online communities

This week on Bullish, I had the pleasure of sitting down with the queen of Imgur, a.k.a. Sarah Schaaf, head of community at Imgur. We talked about IRL communities versus digital communities, what it t

Bullish with Tristan Walker, CEO of Walker & Company Brands

Tristan Walker is becoming, if he’s not already, a household name in Silicon Valley. He’s the founder and CEO of Walker & Company Brands, the startup behind the successful Bevel razor

Bullish: What’s driving the maker movement

The maker movement is hot. Worldwide, there are about 2,000 maker spaces and 26 percent of cities in the U.S. have them. I sat down with Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan to learn about what’s driving

Bullish: Curation and filter bubbles with Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover

After years of tweeting back and forth with Product Hunt Founder Ryan Hoover, I finally met him IRL when he came in to talk about curation with me for Bullish. “In a world where we’re havi

Bullish: Closing The Tech Divide Through Teaching Kids How To Code

This week on Bullish, Mission Bit CEO Stevon Cook joined me in the studio to chat about computer programming and the importance of teaching kids how to code. In case you’re not familiar with Mis

Bullish: A New Era

After a short hiatus, Bullish has returned. The talk show is exactly how you remember it, except with a new host (that's me, MRD!) and way better music. Sorry I'm not sorry, Alex! Anyway, this week

This Week On Bullish: Designing Diversity

Hello, comrades, and welcome back to another episode of Bullish. This time we're talking about diversity in tech. We have all seen the data: Tech companies, large and small, are notably not diverse. T

This Week On Bullish: Let’s Go Unicorn Hunting

Hello friends, and welcome to Bullish, TechCrunch’s newest show. We’re going to ship a new episode directly to your monitor each and every Wednesday morning, so make sure to set your DVR

TechCrunch’s New Show, Bullish, Launches Tomorrow

TechCrunch is launching a new show tomorrow called Bullish, hosted by your humble servant. The show will air on this website every Wednesday at 10 am Eastern, 7 am Pacific. Bullish isn't quite like ou