
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
In 2010, rocket scientists Robbie Schingler and Will Marshall set an ambitious goal for themselves: to launch an aerospace mission with the speed and agility of a Silicon Valley startup. They set up ...
13 Dec 20211h

Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
As college students in the late 1980s, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan launched two projects that came to define their trajectories as entrepreneurs: the "punky but poppy" band Chunk, and the scrappy...
6 Dec 20211h 17min

Live Episode! Tofurky: Seth Tibbott (2019)
Seth Tibbott may be the only founder in the world who grew his business while living in a barn, a teepee, and a treehouse. His off-the-grid lifestyle helped him save money as he started to sell tempeh...
29 Nov 202148min

Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
As a mother of three, Kat Nouri was dismayed at the amount of single-use plastic she was using to pack her kids' school lunches. She had already launched a successful brand called Modern Twist, which ...
22 Nov 20211h 8min

Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong wanted to be a tech entrepreneur since he was in high school, but his first serious venture—a tutoring website—never quite took off. Around 2010, while looking to get a job in Silicon ...
15 Nov 20211h 23min

Back to the Roots: Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez
In 2009, Berkeley seniors Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez started to geek out over something they'd heard in a lecture: you can grow a healthy crop of mushrooms on used coffee grounds. Intrigued by t...
8 Nov 20211h 19min

Audible: Don Katz
Before mp3 players came along in the mid 1990's, listening to audiobooks was a pain. The number of titles was tiny, narration was dull, and if you wanted to listen on the go, you had to juggle a bunch...
1 Nov 20211h 15min

Live Episode! Milk Bar: Christina Tosi (2019)
For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby—it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After college, she went to culinary school and honed her pastry technique...
25 Okt 20211h 5min






















