Yep…you read that headline right. After nearly NINE YEARS this week’s show is our last podcast as the Minnov8 Gang.
It’s been a great ride. We’ve had an incredible amount of fun, talked to literally dozens of guests, interviewed Minnesota technology leaders, attended hundreds of events, and covered Minnesota technology innovation in all its forms. It is time, however, for us to ride off in to the sunset as we head toward new opportunities and adventures.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US
About Our Last Show & Acknowledgements
- After nearly NINE YEARS, this show marks our 400th, and last, podcast. Here are Minnov8’s first post and podcast links:
- Special “Thank You!” mentions go to:
- Our listeners for your unwavering support, and listening, all of these years.
- Graeme Thickins, our Minnov8 co-founder and “Gang” member on the website and podcast for over eight years, “We couldn’t have done it without you pal and thanks for being our friend too! Also appreciate you never being mad about your face being stuck on some Photoshop image.”
- Julio Ojeda-Zapata for your frequent co-hosting and, of course, for your support. You will always be our friend and someone we are lucky to know and as a fellow geek, you have never been judgmental about our lust for all things techie, no matter how strange or obscure. Also appreciate that you, too, have never been mad about your face being stuck on some Photoshop image.
- Garrick Van Buren, another co-founder of Minnov8 back in 2008 and early “Gang” member on the podcast.
- Our contributors: Paul DeBettignies; Sam Glover; Mitch Hislop; Meg Gerritsen Knodl; Lief Larson; Jeff Pesek; Don Smith.
The Podcast
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Minnesota technology industry ranked 17th in nation
- Twin Cities tech executives form new company, buy Cypress chip plant in Bloomington
- Online shopping grew at a faster rate in Minnesota last year than in nearby states
- Minnesota Legislature pushes back on internet privacy
Other Top Tech Stories
- Internet Privacy Law
- Apple
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, wins ‘computing’s Nobel Prize’
- Twitter Lite
- Harry Shearer: Why My ‘Spinal Tap’ Lawsuit Affects All Creators
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: My Co-Hosts
- Tim: Penna – Retro Bluetooth Keyboard
- Steve: The all new Lexar 512GB (USB 3.1) SSD
Upcoming Events
- The Complete List of 280+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2017
- IoTFuse Conference 2017, April 21st, Mpls Conv Ctr
- Overnight Website Challenge, April 22-23, 2017, CoCo Minneapolis
- MHTA Spring Conference, May 9th, Minneapolis Depot Renaissance Hotel
This week’s show was recorded at Minnebar, an enormous gathering of techies in Minnesota. Our guest is Adrienne Peirce (
This past week a 
Minnesota’s own big box tech retailer, Best Buy, sees its Geek Squad in the news since the 
We cover the Minnesota tech stories of the week including disappointing earnings from both Target and Best Buy over the holiday period. Can they compete with Amazon and other online sources? We have a few ideas. Later we discuss the Amazon S3 outage, Uber’s use of tech to evade law enforcement and Google’s rapid rise in the education market at the expense of Apple.
Several good tech stories this week but, once again, we dust-off our “Gang Mentality” segment to ponder a question after the president of the United States 
Are you a U.S. citizen? Then you should know that, if you travel internationally, when you come back to the U.S. you may be forced to reveal your device passwords (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop) as well as providing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers with passwords to your social media and other accounts.
Tim and Steve could only imagine what it would be like if Phil Wilson was an advisor to Donald Trump. Would we all have healthcare? Would he build a wall around Lakeville where Tim lives? We can only speculate, but let’s not, and instead go on and talk about technology!
We discuss the top Minnesota and other tech stories, but our guest this week is none other than 
Guest: Chuck Olsen
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