Breastfeeding, Black Market Baby Formula, and Bobbie
Laura Modi is the founder and CEO of Bobbie, a company that makes baby formula and sells it directly to parents. Laura’s problem is this: how do you launch a startup in a highly regulated industry tha...
29 Juni 202330min
Making Immigration Cheaper & Easier
Xiao Wang is the founder of a company called Boundless. Xiao’s problem is this: How do you make it cheaper and easier for people to navigate the U.S. immigration system? Xiao moved to the U.S. from Ch...
22 Juni 202329min
The Wind Power Pioneer Still Pushing the Frontier
Henrik Stiesdal got his start in wind power back in the 70s. The price of oil had gone way up, and he wanted to help his parents figure out a cheaper source of electricity for their farm. He went on t...
15 Juni 202322min
The Mystery at the Heart of ChatGPT
One of the most amazing things about ChatGPT and other, similar AI models: Nobody really understands what they can do. Not even the people who build them. On today’s show, we talk with Sam Bowman abou...
8 Juni 202332min
Scrubbing Carbon from the Air
Dan Friedmann is the CEO of Carbon Engineering. The company is at the frontier of a new industry, direct air capture. They just broke ground on a big plant in Texas that will pull carbon dioxide out o...
1 Juni 202325min
Building a Plane to Help Save the World
Does flying have to be bad for the environment? Val Miftakhov, the founder and CEO of ZeroAvia, doesn’t think so. His company built a plane that’s powered by hydrogen fuel, which produces zero carbon ...
25 Maj 202328min
The AI that Might Take My Job (And Yours)
Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Descript. Descript's software has made editing audio and video much simpler. The company recently received a large investment from OpenAI, the company behind Ch...
18 Maj 202331min
The Hottest Thing In Energy Storage
Andrew Ponec is co-founder and CEO of the energy storage company Antora Energy. Andrew's problem is this: How can you store renewable energy in a way that is cheap enough and reliable enough for indu...
11 Maj 202325min
