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Core Memory

Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience. www.corememory.com

Episodes

How North Korea Infiltrated American Companies With Fake Tech Workers - EP 29 Bob McMillan

13 Aug 2025

1h 10m

The Company Putting A Score On Your Life - EP 28 Dugal Bain-Kim

06 Aug 2025

1h 6m

The Forrest Gump of Silicon Valley - EP 27 Leslie Berlin

31 Jul 2025

1h 23m

The Iranian Scientist Leading America’s Nuclear Rebirth - EP 26 Kurt Terrani

24 Jul 2025

1h 15m

Her Multi-Billion Dollar Quest to End Disease - EP 25 Priscilla Chan

16 Jul 2025

1h 2m

Spaceplanes Are Upon Us - EP 24 Stefan Powell

09 Jul 2025

1h 15m

The Child Prodigy Teaching Other People How To Learn

02 Jul 2025

1h 17m

Fixing American Science Funding

25 Jun 2025

1h 22m

The New Era of Consumer DNA Tests

18 Jun 2025

1h 24m

An AI Engineer Is Here, and It Might Redesign the Physical World - EP 20 Paul Eremenko

11 Jun 2025

1h 18m

The Future of Money - EP 19 Zach Abrams

05 Jun 2025

1h 31m

Anduril and Meta Make Peace to Make War Together - EP 18 Palmer Luckey

29 May 2025

2h 4m

Peter Beck on Rockets, Dinner with Elon and the Future of Space

22 May 2025

1h 4m

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Ashlee Vance interviews Peter Beck, the founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, discussing the company's growth, its focus on the Neutron rocket, and its unique end-to-end space services. They reflect on Rocket Lab's origins in New Zealand, its success in the small rocket market with Electron, and the challenges of competing wi...