This week, we bring you the first in an ongoing series of interviews with platform builders. We're calling this series 'Innovation Engines,' and we kick it off with Jeff Lawson, the founder and CEO of Twilio, a company that's building a platform to...

We sat down with Michael Williams, the chief marketing officer for Grand Prix of America, which is bringing Formula 1 racing to the U.S., to find out what challenges he's facing in helping Americans wake up to one of the world's most popular racing...

This week, we talk with Etan Lightstone, the VP of design for New Relic, about the importance of good design and user experience (UX) in enterprise apps. He tells us what technologies have helped enable better design, and we also discuss how data...

We talk to John Koetsier, who heads up VentureBeat's new research product, VB Insight -- which is collecting hundreds of thousands of data points to make sense of the burgeoning field of marketing technology. With more than $3B poured into this sector...

This week, we speak with Michael Tolkin, the CEO of IMAX Labs, an innovation lab backed by IMAX Corp. He's pretty excited about what the future of augmented and virtual reality hardware have to offer, and he shares his thoughts with us. Plus, we tell...

You might think politics and e-commerce might seem unrelated, but Harper Reed, who was the CTO of President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, would disagree. On this week's episode of What to Think, Reed, who's now building mobile commerce startup...

The accepted narrative about Steve Jobs has been that he was half genius and half jerk, but that isn’t the whole truth. So say authors Rick Tetzeli and Brent Schlender in the new biography “Becoming Steve Jobs.” Jobs’ character...

The Ellen Pao discrimination case, which concluded last week, has many in the tech world thinking about the roles of women in technology. One woman who is now in a very high profile role is Elena Donio, who is president at Concur, maker of the...

In the future, you might not own a car. Instead, you'll get around town by hopping into one of many driverless, autonomous pods swarming the streets. To get a picture of how we'll get there, we invited Xerox executive David Cummins to talk to us about...

This week, we speak with Elissa Shevinsky, chief executive of JeKuDo Privacy Company, a new startup building easy-to-use privacy tools like a group-messaging app. Also, we tell you what to think about the new MacBook, Pinterest's $11 billion...