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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.


A Strategic Look at Apple Day with Carolina Milanesi
A Strategic Look at Apple Day with Carolina Milanesi

For this Apple Day episode, I interviewed friend of the show and former guest, Carolina Milanesi. Carolina is an industry analyst at Creative Strategies and regular columnist…

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Guests, The Future of AppleTimothy BuckSeptember 13, 2018Fall 2018, Season 1
Software Spelunking with Guilherme Rambo
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…

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Guests, The Future of AppleTimothy BuckSeptember 6, 2018Fall 2018, Season 1
Cate Huston International Spy
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckSeptember 4, 2018Season 1
A Design Career, but Like Kanye with Jason Yuan
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckAugust 28, 2018Season 1
Internalized Twitter Voice with Owen Williams
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckAugust 21, 2018featured, Season 1
Starting a Non-Profit from Scratch with Jean MacDonald
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckAugust 14, 2018Season 1
Bootstrapping a High-Growth Startup with Christy Laurence
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckAugust 7, 2018Season 1
Tech in the South with Blair Reeves
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJuly 31, 2018Season 1
Software has Misplaced its Personality with Louie Mantia
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJuly 17, 2018featured, Season 1
Apple's 4-Pronged Media Strategy with Eric Young
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJuly 10, 2018Season 1
#VoiceFirst with Cassidy Williams
#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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJuly 3, 2018Season 1
The Intersection of Design, Technology and Culture with May-Li Khoe
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJune 26, 2018Season 1
Techno Villainy with Kelly Guimont
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckJune 12, 2018Season 1
Strategy, Strategy, Strategy with Ryan Jones
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…

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Guests, The Future of AppleTimothy BuckJune 5, 2018Summer 2018, Season 1
WWDC Predictions with Carolina Milanesi
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…

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Guests, The Future of AppleTimothy BuckMay 29, 2018Summer 2018, Season 1
A Bit of a Privacy Minefield with Paul and Mark Johnson
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckMay 22, 2018Season 1
Building Better Products with Ryan Glasgow
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckMay 15, 2018Season 1
Being Yourself is Differentiating with Matt Birchler
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…

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GuestsTimothy BuckMay 8, 2018Season 1
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