Speaker 1: So, Brad, tell us who you are. My name's Brad Stone.
Speaker 1: I'm senior executive editor of Technology at Bloomberg and you're
Speaker 1: now a proud podcast host too. Indeed, welcome to Decrypted.
Speaker 1: You know you should tell everyone how you first pitched
Speaker 1: a show to me. Well, I think what we were
Speaker 1: saying is that there are lots of technology podcasts and
Speaker 1: we just have to be interesting. If there are uncomfortable
Speaker 1: truths out there, we should be talking to them. I
Speaker 1: think maybe what I said was if there are electrical sockets,
Speaker 1: let's stick our finger. And my first thought was it
Speaker 1: was I need to run this by someone to make
Speaker 1: sure this is okay, that this is ko share, and
Speaker 1: then I remembered half a second later, Um, if anyone's
Speaker 1: going to get in trouble for this, it's going to
Speaker 1: be you. And if you want our team to get
Speaker 1: as close as possible to electrocuting ourselves, I guess in
Speaker 1: the service of great journalism, I'm totally game. I've been
Speaker 1: covering technology for twenty years and there are great stories
Speaker 1: not just in Silicon Valley but in the technology communities
Speaker 1: around the war world. Hidden projects, quiet rivalries, unintended consequences,
Speaker 1: stuff that nobody wants to talk about. Those are the
Speaker 1: stories we ought to be telling, right And we have
Speaker 1: this amazing team of about fifty journalists around the world,
Speaker 1: from our base here in San Francisco to Hong Kong
Speaker 1: to Tel Aviv to Bangalore, and our reporters they're out
Speaker 1: there day in and day out uncovering all the drama
Speaker 1: taking place behind closed doors. So the idea with this
Speaker 1: new show is we're going to shine a light into
Speaker 1: these veiled, dark corners of the technology universe, and we're
Speaker 1: going to be doing that every Tuesday. As a reporter
Speaker 1: covering Silicon Valley and tech startups, I almost always feel
Speaker 1: like people are lying to me. You know, we had
Speaker 1: all sorts of promise and opportunity and it didn't work.
Speaker 1: My biggest emotion of it is you know that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: On the top of that hill is actually a steep drop.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a clip there, and you don't see
Speaker 1: that adult products, pet products. It sounds a little bit.
Speaker 1: It has a little whiff of pyramid scheme to it. No, no,
Speaker 1: it actually is. Yeah, No, it does. It does. You
Speaker 1: should tell everybody who you are. My name's aki Ito
Speaker 1: and I'm an editor on our technology team here in
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and I'm going to be behind the scenes
Speaker 1: for the most part, helping producers show, but not always
Speaker 1: I hope not always, Brad. When you're out traveling or
Speaker 1: when you get tied up running our global team, our
Speaker 1: listeners will hear from me too, so be sure to
Speaker 1: subscribe to our show, whether that's on iTunes or any
Speaker 1: of the great podcast apps. Will be rolling out our
Speaker 1: very first episode on Tuesday, October eleventh, and our subsequent
Speaker 1: episodes every Tuesday after that. From Bloomberg Technology. This is decrypted.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week.