Weee!: Larry Liu
If you told 19-year-old Larry Liu that his hobby re-selling used electronics “for fun” would someday help him build a multi-billion-dollar company, he probably would have laughed. He was an electrical...
18 Mars 20241h 24min
AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane
Imran Chaudhri and his wife Bethany Bongiorno are responsible for bringing some of the most widely-used screened products to market—like the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. And while these devices have...
14 Mars 202445min
Primal Kitchen: Mark Sisson
Mark Sisson made a big bet on mayonnaise, and won: four years after launching his Paleo-friendly condiment company Primal Kitchen, he sold it for $200 million. He succeeded partly because he drew less...
11 Mars 20241h 7min
Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
Gene Berdichevsky and his team have been working for over a decade to solve a major problem: Lithium-ion batteries are not getting any better. They power our cell phones and laptops and nearly every o...
7 Mars 202440min
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
In 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel—yes, that Jack Daniel—how to make Tennes...
4 Mars 20241h 12min
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
What if you could no longer trust the things you see and hear?Because the signature on a check, the documents or videos presented in court, the footage you see on the news, the calls you receive from ...
29 Feb 202432min
Poshmark: Manish Chandra
When the iPhone 4 was released in 2010, Manish Chandra was dazzled by its picture quality, and saw an opportunity for a new type of mobile marketplace. A year later, he and three co-founders launched ...
26 Feb 20241h 6min
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
When Tristan Harris co-founded the Center for Humane Technology in 2018, he was trying to educate tech leaders and policymakers about the harms of social media.But today, he’s sounding the alarm about...
22 Feb 202428min
