UNCO Interview Archive
UNCO is a retired interview podcast hosted by Timothy Buck. He conducted 49 interviews with tech leaders from companies including Google, Amazon, Apple, Etsy, MailChimp, Khan Academy, BuzzFeed, Vox, NBC, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Mac, Automattic, Creative Strategies, and more.
Software Spelunking with Guilherme Rambo
Guilherme Rambo is a software spelunker and writer for 9to5Mac and an iOS developer in Brazil. He joined me for a special Apple Event predictions episode to chat about…
Cate Huston International Spy
Cate Huston is a technical team lead at Automattic and an international speaker. In this early-morning recording, we chatted about the strange fad of “reinventing” food poorly, why she…
A Design Career, but Like Kanye with Jason Yuan
Jason Yuan is a design intern at Apple. We discussed his journey from theatre school to working in Cupertino, difficulties of breaking into the tech world, design celebrity culture…
Internalized Twitter Voice with Owen Williams
The founder of Charged, Owen Williams, joined me this week to discuss his experience building a newsletter business, emerging internet business models…
Starting a Non-Profit from Scratch with Jean MacDonald
Jean MacDonald is the founder of App Camp for Girls, a community manager at Micro.blog, and was an early employee at Smile Software, the company behind gems…
Bootstrapping a High-Growth Startup with Christy Laurence
Christy Laurence is the CEO of Plann. She and I chatted about bootstrapping a high-growth startup, building a software business as a non-technical founder, and organically building…
Tech in the South with Blair Reeves
Blair Reeves and I had a fascinating conversation about the major differences between the tech scenes in Silicon Valley and the Southeastern parts of the US, as well as…
Software has Misplaced its Personality with Louie Mantia
Louie Mantia is the founder of Parakeet and a former designer for Apple and the prestigious Iconfactory. He and I chatted about iconography, his wonderful obsession with Memoji…
Apple's 4-Pronged Media Strategy with Eric Young
Eric Young works in research and strategy for NBCUniversal. His understanding of the media landscape along with his strongly-held Apple views made for a great conversation about Apple’s media strategy…
#VoiceFirst with Cassidy Williams
Cassidy Williams is the Head of Developer Voice Programs working on Alexa for Amazon. We talked about voice-first user experience, designing voice-first with a screen, building…
The Intersection of Design, Technology and Culture with May-Li Khoe
May-Li Khoe is the VP of Design at Khan Academy and long-time Apple designer who worked on software for the first iPhone and early stage human interface design research for…
Techno Villainy with Kelly Guimont
Kelly Guimont and I discuss iOS apps on the Mac, Breaking up iTunes, Siri Shortcuts, building tools that can be used for evil and more…
Strategy, Strategy, Strategy with Ryan Jones
Ryan Jones, founder of Weather Line and Flighty, joined me after the Keynote to discuss Apple’s announcements and what they say about their strategy…
WWDC Predictions with Carolina Milanesi
Industry analyst Carolina Milanesi joined me on Unco this week to discuss both what we want and what we expect from Apple at WWDC next week…
A Bit of a Privacy Minefield with Paul and Mark Johnson
Mark and Paul Johnson joined me to discuss how education will impact education over the next 50 years, how the technology behind Google Duplex could replace the need for tools like Zapier, what we want to see from Apple at WWDC and more…
Building Better Products with Ryan Glasgow
The founder of UserLeap and my friend, Ryan Glasgow came on the show this week. We talked about Twitter upping the character limit, Facebook's mistakes, Antitrust, Blockchain and more…
Being Yourself is Differentiating with Matt Birchler
This week I’m excited to have chatted with Matt Birchler of Birchtree. We discussed building a brand on the internet, and what we’ve learned over our many years trying to do just that…
Social Media is a Lie with Georgia Dow
Georgia Dow, both a psychotherapist and a tech journalist, joined me to discuss the intersection of social media and mental health, privacy, the robotpocolypse and more…