TechCrunch Mixtape

On this week’s episode, I chat with Aniyia Williams, the person behind Tinsel Wear, Black and Brown Founders and the Zebra Movement.

We talk all-things tech, making it rain cash money in black and brown communities and white savior complex .

Cash bail systems are unjust and disproportionately affect low-income people. On this week's episode of CTRL+ T, Megan Rose Dickey chats with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Promise, a startup that looks to provide an alternative to cash bail systems. Ellis-Lamkins discusses the issues with cash bail systems, what led her to start Promise and what it was like participating in Silicon Valley's Y Combinator accelerator.

On this week's episode of CTRL+T, Henry Pickavet and Megan Rose Dickey chat about Facebook's privacy drama involving Cambridge Analytica, an Airbnb experience gone wrong and a new camera for your car.

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There is a company out of startup accelerator Y Combinator that says it's "committed to the goal of archiving your mind." Okay. We also talk software developer ethics and the alleged inaccessibility of Lyft.

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Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet

Producer and editor: Christopher Gates

Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni

We are moving our release date to Tuesday. See you then!

This week we talk MoviePass's tracking drama and the way the local world works - media-style. We're joined in the studio by Eric Eldon, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Hoodline (and former co-editor of TechCrunch), a local news site that covers hoods in San Francisco and Oakland "near you." As in down the street from where you are. He talks the local news media landscape and a new data wire service Hoodline just launched to make your hood even more your hood.

Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet

Producer and editor: Christopher Gates

Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni

When Birmingham led the charge in the civil rights movement in the sixties, the city inadvertently created big shoes for itself to later fill. Just how Birmingham was the birthplace of many civil rights actions in the sixties, the city wants to be the birthplace of true diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.

Megan found that out and more when she visited Birmingham and explored its tech scene a couple of weeks ago. On this week's episode of CTRL+T, Megan and Henry explore a bit of the Birmingham tech scene, diversity and inclusion in tech, as well as the slave insurance industry.

Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet

Producer: Christopher Gates

Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni

You might have heard that a film called “Black Panther” came out last week and saw near-record crowds descend on theaters all over the world. The CTRL+T podcast team was among them.

We headed to Oakland on an unseasonably cold-for-California evening to wait in line for about 90 minutes. While in that line, we talked to a few people to see how they felt about this moment in time.

Your hosts: Megan Rose Dickey and Henry Pickavet

Producer: Christopher Gates

Executive producer: Yashad Kulkarni

We’ve had plenty of time to get used to our robot overlords and Boston Dynamics is helping us get there. This week we talk about the company’s addition of a door-opening arm to its SpotMini robot. It’s not spooky at all.

We then switch gears and discuss Facebook’s Messenger for Kids. Is it good, bad or the company’s master plan to get every last human being with a smartphone on the platform.

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This week's episode is all about the future. Thanks to technology, the highest capacity rocket platform ever, the Falcon Heavy, blasted into space.


Meanwhile, down here on Earth, Uber is working to make urban air travel a thing, and companies are developing products and conducting studies that can detect diabetes, just by wearing the Apple Watch. This is the world we live in.


On this week's episode, we also chat with Uber Head of Policy of Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Aviation Justin Erlich.