Core Memory

Ashlee Vance

Booking Overview

A science-and-technology interview show featuring accomplished innovators, engineers, researchers, founders, and other people behind unusual or consequential technical achievements. PR agencies could credibly pitch clients with breakthrough products, pioneering research, landmark engineering accomplishments, or compelling firsthand stories in science and technology; booking is difficult because the show is highly selective and has pursued particularly notable guests for months.

Metrics

Episodes: 90

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

ashlee@corememory.com

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Host

Ashlee Vance - Bestselling author, filmmaker, and technology journalist who has chronicled science and technology for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of bestselling...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Scientists, engineers, technology founders, researchers, inventors, and technical executives with significant breakthroughs, original research, pioneering products, or firsthand experience in unusual high-impact projects.

Required Achievements:

Pioneering scientific or engineering accomplishments, Development of breakthrough technology or medical devices, Leadership in major technology ventures or research programs, Highly unusual or record-setting technical achievements

Recent Guest Discussions

Alan Eustace - His 2014 Stratosphere Jump From 135,890 Feet, The Engineering And Preparation Behind The Record, The History Of Stratosphere Jumping, His Technology Career, Artificial Intelligence, And Ocean-floor Exploration.

Ben Woodington - Coherence’s Implant Technology, Cancer Neuroscience, Neuro-oncology, Tumor Monitoring And Treatment, And The Development Of Implantable Medical Devices.

Recent Topics

Technology, Science, Engineering, Space, Biotechnology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Core Memory

Solar Energy's Second Act — EP 88 Joel Jean

September 16, 2026

In this episode, Ashlee sits down with Joel Jean, CEO of Swift Solar, a San Carlos-based startup trying to create new solar technology using perovskite. We previously published a story about Swift, if you’re wondering what the f*ck perovskite is! In short, it’s a synthetic crystal that turns sunlight into electricity better and cheaper than the silicon currently used in solar panels. This stuff is finicky though, and experts have doubts, as they always do — but Jean explains how Swift is clos...

The Xbox Nearly Destroyed Him - EP 87 Seamus Blackley

September 09, 2026

This episode is nerd catnip unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.Ashlee sat down with Seamus Blackley, who you might know as the man who talked Microsoft into building the Xbox. Nowadays, you can find Blackley in a Pasadena laboratory making the world’s best chocolate. If you’re just here for the cacao, well, we did a video on it.Blackley grew up in rural New Mexico and studied electrical engineering, then physics, at Tufts University. He spent years working on titles you know and love, like...

Gene Therapies That Work? - EP 86 Adrian Veres

September 02, 2026

We have been promised glorious gene therapies for decades. This is supposed to be the stuff of reprogramming the body to blunt or cure diseases with something approaching a permanent fix. While gene therapy progress has been made, treatments remain rare and expensive, and it’s very tough to get the therapies to go into the desired parts of the body.Our guest this week is here to help. He’s Adrian Veres, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of Dyno Therapeutics. Founded in 2018, Dyno ha...

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