Sam Talks Technology

Stewart Townsend is my good friend and was often my partner in crime for many fun startup events which we organised together. A chance meeting with Stewart, 15 years ago at one of the Open Coffee Club mornings I had organised in Waterstones, led to the start of a great friendship. This podcast takes you through those early days of the London startup scene. From Stewart's work with Sun Microsystems and working with Twitter developers. Through to events we did together such as Flowery Tweetups and Flowery Cinema; the one where we hired a Leicester Square cinema to watch the new Facebook film The Social Network and invited 250 of our Facebook friends to join us. Find out how we had drinks with Henry 'The Fonz' Winkler and Mark Zuckerberg as well as a private dinner with Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems at Blenheim Palace, to name but a few events. Together with Manoj Ranaweera, we helped start the first Techcelerate: The Original Tech Ecosystem in Manchester and we even attended its 11th-