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Transcript of Elon Musk Interview with Alison van Diggelen: Iron Man, Growing up in South Africa

Transcript of Elon Musk Interview with Alison van Diggelen: Iron Man, Growing up in South Africa

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues On January 22, 2013, Elon Musk joined me in conversation at the Computer History Museum to share his life story and key turning points that led to the creation of [...]

Elon Musk: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words (Video)

Elon Musk: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words (Video)

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues For the first time, entrepreneur Elon Musk shared his whole life story in front of a live audience in Silicon Valley. He joined me in conversation at the Computer History [...]

PlanGrid Offers Solution to Blueprint Blues

PlanGrid Offers Solution to Blueprint Blues

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last week, Fresh Dialogues visited PlanGrid, the recent Y Combinator startup winner that’s tackling what some call the “insane paper” problem that the construction industry produces. Computer-Aided Design (or CAD) works well [...]

Working @Google: Green Carrots & Pogo Sticks

Working @Google: Green Carrots & Pogo Sticks

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues How is Google greening its growing army of Googlers, on and off campus? Biodiesel buses, Google bikes…pogo sticks anyone? I sat down with Parag Chokshi, Google’s Clean Energy Public Affairs [...]

Martin Giles: The Economist on Green Innovation

Martin Giles: The Economist on Green Innovation

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues The Economist newspaper has a reputation for world-class reporting, with a sardonic British twist. Is the publication bullish about green innovation? I sat down with Martin Giles, the Economist’s US Technology [...]

Lesa Mitchell: Kauffman calls for boot camps

Lesa Mitchell: Kauffman calls for boot camps

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Reid Hoffman’s concept of leveraging the power of entrepreneurship was echoed again this summer when I talked with Lesa Mitchell, VP for Advancing Innovation at the Kauffman Foundation. She shared [...]

Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Entrepreneurship

Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Entrepreneurship

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues June 24 marked the 13th annual SDForum Visionary Awards, a celebration of the innovators and chutzpah that make Silicon Valley unique. Although the four visionaries come from diverse backgrounds, [...]

Adam Jackson: Go Green with Twitter

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I caught up with Twitter officianado, Adam Jackson at SDForum’s Teens Plugged in Conference last year. Since then, he’s founded TweetForMyBiz, a social media consultancy, based in San Francisco. Moderator at this [...]

SDForum: Silicon Valley Teens talk green, tech

SDForum: Silicon Valley Teens talk green, tech

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues SDForum attendees got a glimpse of the future last Friday. Microsoft hosted the 4th Annual SDForum Teens Conference – an assembly of some of the most dynamic and creative young [...]

KR Sridhar: Bloom Energy Technology – Video exclusive

KR Sridhar: Bloom Energy Technology – Video exclusive

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Bloom Energy CEO KR Sridhar is a man with a mission to change the world. His fuel cell company is already powering Google, so that should make any skeptic take [...]

Adam Jackson: How Twitter is Going Green

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I caught up with Twitter officianado, Adam Jackson at SDForum’s Teens Plugged in Conference. He talks about how Twitter is going green and how his new book, 140 [...]

Mary Vincent: Green Software UnConference

Mary Vincent, a go-getting green entrepreneur let me know about a cool green event she’s co-hosting in Silicon Valley next month The First Green Software Unconference Silicon Valley When: August 19, 2009 Where:  The Computer History Museum [...]