WEBVTT - Welcome to Decrypted

0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.920
<v Speaker 1>So, Brad, tell us who you are. My name's Brad Stone.

0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm senior executive editor of Technology at Bloomberg and you're

0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.280
<v Speaker 1>now a proud podcast host too. Indeed, welcome to Decrypted.

0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.440
<v Speaker 1>You know you should tell everyone how you first pitched

0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.480
<v Speaker 1>a show to me. Well, I think what we were

0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.599
<v Speaker 1>saying is that there are lots of technology podcasts and

0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.600
<v Speaker 1>we just have to be interesting. If there are uncomfortable

0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.720
<v Speaker 1>truths out there, we should be talking to them. I

0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.720
<v Speaker 1>think maybe what I said was if there are electrical sockets,

0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.680
<v Speaker 1>let's stick our finger. And my first thought was it

0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.519
<v Speaker 1>was I need to run this by someone to make

0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.080
<v Speaker 1>sure this is okay, that this is ko share, and

0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.199
<v Speaker 1>then I remembered half a second later, Um, if anyone's

0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.880
<v Speaker 1>going to get in trouble for this, it's going to

0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.519
<v Speaker 1>be you. And if you want our team to get

0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.880
<v Speaker 1>as close as possible to electrocuting ourselves, I guess in

0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.960
<v Speaker 1>the service of great journalism, I'm totally game. I've been

0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.920
<v Speaker 1>covering technology for twenty years and there are great stories

0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.520
<v Speaker 1>not just in Silicon Valley but in the technology communities

0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.520
<v Speaker 1>around the war world. Hidden projects, quiet rivalries, unintended consequences,

0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.760
<v Speaker 1>stuff that nobody wants to talk about. Those are the

0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.880
<v Speaker 1>stories we ought to be telling, right And we have

0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.480
<v Speaker 1>this amazing team of about fifty journalists around the world,

0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.919
<v Speaker 1>from our base here in San Francisco to Hong Kong

0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.600
<v Speaker 1>to Tel Aviv to Bangalore, and our reporters they're out

0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.440
<v Speaker 1>there day in and day out uncovering all the drama

0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.520
<v Speaker 1>taking place behind closed doors. So the idea with this

0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.559
<v Speaker 1>new show is we're going to shine a light into

0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:32.520
<v Speaker 1>these veiled, dark corners of the technology universe, and we're

0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:37.560
<v Speaker 1>going to be doing that every Tuesday. As a reporter

0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.920
<v Speaker 1>covering Silicon Valley and tech startups, I almost always feel

0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.399
<v Speaker 1>like people are lying to me. You know, we had

0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.240
<v Speaker 1>all sorts of promise and opportunity and it didn't work.

0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.040
<v Speaker 1>My biggest emotion of it is you know that, I'm sorry.

0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.520
<v Speaker 1>On the top of that hill is actually a steep drop.

0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.120
<v Speaker 1>There's a there's a clip there, and you don't see

0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.240
<v Speaker 1>that adult products, pet products. It sounds a little bit.

0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.040
<v Speaker 1>It has a little whiff of pyramid scheme to it. No, no,

0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.280
<v Speaker 1>it actually is. Yeah, No, it does. It does. You

0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.480
<v Speaker 1>should tell everybody who you are. My name's aki Ito

0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.440
<v Speaker 1>and I'm an editor on our technology team here in

0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:20.080
<v Speaker 1>San Francisco, and I'm going to be behind the scenes

0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.880
<v Speaker 1>for the most part, helping producers show, but not always

0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.160
<v Speaker 1>I hope not always, Brad. When you're out traveling or

0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.959
<v Speaker 1>when you get tied up running our global team, our

0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.160
<v Speaker 1>listeners will hear from me too, so be sure to

0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.760
<v Speaker 1>subscribe to our show, whether that's on iTunes or any

0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.480
<v Speaker 1>of the great podcast apps. Will be rolling out our

0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.840
<v Speaker 1>very first episode on Tuesday, October eleventh, and our subsequent

0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:45.000
<v Speaker 1>episodes every Tuesday after that. From Bloomberg Technology. This is decrypted.

0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:51.359
<v Speaker 1>We'll see you next week.