Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
Before Steven Udvar-Hazy was out of high school, he started working as an airline consultant. You could do that sort of thing back in the 1960’s, if you knew the industry—which indisputably, he did. B...
4 Sep 20231h 6min
When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable
Our brain activity can reveal a lot about our physical and mental health. And thanks to Ramses Alcaide and his team at Neurable, we’ll soon be able to glean insights from our brainwaves in our own hom...
31 Aug 202335min
Supergoop!: Holly Thaggard (2020)
In 2005, the trajectory of Holly Thaggard's life completely changed when a good friend of hers was diagnosed with skin cancer. Holly realized that most people weren't taking sunscreen seriously, so sh...
28 Aug 20231h 11min
Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
Not only is BETA Technologies completely changing the flying experience with its all-electric aircraft, it’s upending the logistics of shipping altogether... This week on How I Built This Lab, founder...
24 Aug 202340min
Kinko’s: Paul Orfalea
Kinko’s copy shops were once so ubiquitous that the name became a kind of shorthand for photocopying. Paul Orfalea started the first shop in 1970 in a tiny converted hamburger stand near UC Santa Barb...
21 Aug 20231h 1min
Making garbage useful with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle
Tom Szaky runs a recycling company, but he’d rather live in a world where recycling was obsolete... Today, his company recycles everything from shampoo bottles and makeup containers to snack wrappers ...
17 Aug 202343min
Solo Stove: Spencer and Jeff Jan
Over a nine-year period, Spencer and Jeff Jan grew Solo Stove from a DIY project into a 9-figure brand. Their original idea was modest: work a four-hour week and earn a passive income from a DTC campi...
14 Aug 20231h 1min
When our phones are just phones with Kai Tang and Joe Hollier of Light
Most of us are dependent on our smartphones. In fact, Americans spend an average of three hours a day on these devices — devices that only came into existence relatively recently. Designers Kai Tang a...
10 Aug 202332min
