Jack Black Skin Care: Curran and Jeff Dandurand
In 1998, Curran Dandurand and a colleague from Mary Kay Cosmetics came up with an unorthodox idea: a premium skincare brand for men. Despite the prevailing wisdom that American men would never want to...
11 Sep 20231h 1min
Threading the future of circular fashion with Peter Majeranowski of Circ
Over one hundred billion garments will be produced this year, but they don’t have to be. Peter Majeranowski says we have all the clothes we need to make all the clothing we’ll ever need, and his compa...
7 Sep 202329min
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
