Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz
Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz founded Magic Spoon to create a sugary breakfast cereal without the sugar. If that sounds daunting, consider their first business: protein bars made with cricket flour. Riff...
12 Helmi 20241h 11min
Building a decarbonization army with Shashank Samala of Heirloom
Cutting emissions alone will not be enough. To avoid the worst effects of global climate change, Heirloom CEO and co-founder Shashank Samala believes we’ll also need to pull a lot of carbon out of the...
8 Helmi 202427min
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
In 2012, Ariel Kaye saw a tantalizing opportunity, but wasn’t sure she was the one to seize it. She’d never started a brand and didn’t think of herself as an entrepreneur, until she noticed how frustr...
5 Helmi 20241h 12min
3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON
“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, then we’re going to get what we’ve got—and what we got ain’t working.”ICON Co-founder/CEO and proud Texan Jason Ballard believes that a radically different app...
1 Helmi 202442min
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
Tiffany Masterson was a stay-at-home mom in her 40s when she launched her skin care brand, Drunk Elephant, in 2013. Six years later, she sold it for $845 million to the Japanese beauty giant Shiseido....
29 Tammi 20241h 31min
Brewing creativity with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
When Jim Koch created Samuel Adams Boston Lager in 1984, American craft beer was still in its infancy. But forty years and thousands of new craft breweries later, both the competition and Jim’s drive ...
25 Tammi 202437min
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
Mike Cessario came up with the idea for a viral water brand by asking himself “What is the dumbest possible idea we could have?” His answer was Liquid Death: an aluminum can of water that looks like a...
22 Tammi 20241h 19min
Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of BloomX
Thai Sade is the co-founder and CEO of BloomX, a company that has developed crop-pollinating technology to replicate natural pollinators like bees and other insects. So much of what we eat depends on ...
18 Tammi 202432min
