Tech Overflow

About Tech Overflow

We're Tech Overflow, the podcast that explains tech to curious people. Hosted by Hannah Clayton-Langton and Hugh Williams.

Publisher

Hannah Clayton-Langton and Hugh Williams

Category

business · education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Sept 2025

Latest episode

5 May 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 24 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Season Two Wrap

   Host Hugh and Host Hannah reflect on tech's rapid impact on work and life, sharing insights from their new roles in robotics and logistics.

2. 

   28 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Venture Investing With The VC Who Invested in Insta and Figma (with John Lilly)

   Entrepreneurs get the glory, investors get the spreadsheets, and John Lilly says that’s exactly how it should be. John (former VC, now angel and board member, and newly involved with Gigascale Capital) joins us to demystify venture capital for curious builders: how funds are raised from limited partners, why returns follow a power law, and what investors actually do between writing a cheque and a company becoming real. Along the way, we unpack his simple working framework: see, win, decide, t...

3. 

   21 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Microsoft’s Rogue AI — What We Learned from Tay (with Derrick Connell)

   This week Hannah is joined by guest host Derrick Connell to discuss how Microsoft's Tay went wrong, how Satya Nadella reacted in the moment, and what Derrick learned about innovation. Derrick also shares stories from shifts in technology and discusses his new book Twenty One Summers. Derrick shipped a chatbot that survived for 18 hours as it went horribly wrong. It sounds like a punchline until you realise it helped rewrite how the industry thinks about AI safety. Hannah sits down with Derric...

Inside a recent episode

Season Two Wrap

Published 5 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, that one was – it's quite interesting actually. It speaks to maybe a broader piece that the advent of AI and LLMs really in the public consciousness has timed really well with the sort of genesis of the podcast. And that was a sort of like coming together of, as you say, like us having a really good time recording, but also something that's super relevant to pretty much everyone right now. Whether or not they would identify as a curious listener wanting to learn about tech, like it suddenly – hit the mainstream in a really big way. So that was a fun way of sort of making the most of that and learning. […]

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