How Many Podcast Downloads Do You Actually Need to Keep Going?
What is Your Rock Bottom Podcast Downloads Number?
Everybody talks about growing their audience. Nobody talks about the number where they'd quietly give up.
This month's Question of the Month flips the growth conversation on its head: what's the smallest number of downloads that would keep you ma...
2026 Midterms: Voters, Taxes, AI and California Politics
With the 2026 midterm elections approaching, Mark Simon and Bob Marks take a deep look at the political landscape both nationally and here in California.
The conversation begins with a remembrance of September 11, 2001, on the 25th anniversary of the attacks, before turning to the November electi...
Fluent in the Tools, Illiterate in the Tradeoffs — Frank Bravo on AI's Real Risk
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Most organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it. That's where this conversation with Frank Bravo starts — and it doesn't let up.
Frank is a Bay Area technologist who spent more than three decades leading technology through disruption. For...
📸 How to Share Photos with Family (Without Texting 50 Pictures)
Sharing photos with family should be the easy part, but it usually turns into forty buzzes on somebody's phone during a meeting, a batch of blurry pictures, and a call from your mom asking how to save the one of the cake. This episode is a plain-English guide to how to share photos with family an...
📸 How to Share Photos with Family (Without Texting 50 Pictures)
Sharing photos with family should be the easy part, but it usually turns into forty buzzes on somebody's phone during a meeting, a batch of blurry pictures, and a call from your mom asking how to save the one of the cake. This episode is a plain-English guide to how to share photos with family an...
Simplifying Tech Through Empathy and Understanding with Frank Bravo
In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, host Brad Hefta-Gaub is joined by guest Frank Bravo, a Bay Area technologist who spent 30 years as CTO in local media, helping put a newspaper's full editorial content online in 1994, and now serves as CTO at ProLegal, a legal services sta...
David Canepa on Elections, AI, and His New Role in San Mateo County
San Mateo County Supervisor and Assessor-Clerk-Recorder-elect David Canepa joins Mark Simon and Bob Marks for a wide-ranging conversation about his upcoming transition to a new countywide office.
Canepa explains why he wanted the job, what he hopes to change in the assessor, elections and clerk-r...
Rosanne Foust on San Mateo Economy, Housing, Taxes, AI & Transit
Rosanne Foust, President and CEO of the San Mateo County Economic Development Association (SAMCEDA), joins Mark Simon and Bob Marks for a wide-ranging conversation about the economy, housing, taxes, transportation, AI and politics across San Mateo County and the Peninsula.
Foust discusses the div...
🔄 Factory Reset Your Phone: What It Erases and What It Misses
A factory reset is the thing most people feel are standing between the old phone in your drawer and actually selling it, donating it, or handing it down.
Frank Bravo corrects the mental picture. A reset does not scrub the drive. Your phone has been encrypted since the day you set it up, and the r...
🔄 Factory Reset Your Phone: What It Erases and What It Misses
A factory reset is the thing most people feel are standing between the old phone in your drawer and actually selling it, donating it, or handing it down.
Frank Bravo corrects the mental picture. A reset does not scrub the drive. Your phone has been encrypted since the day you set it up, and the r...
