Podcast Episodes

Turning Writers into Publishers

Season 1 Episode 29

Chris Best is co-founder and CEO of Substack.

Chris's problem: How do you help writers make a living from a thousand true fans?

Substack is a company that helps writers send subscription-based email …

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses

Season 1 Episode 28

Harley Finkelstein is the president of Shopify. He may love entrepreneurship more than anyone we've ever met.

Harley’s problem: How do you aggregate the power of millions of small businesses to help …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground

Season 1 Episode 27

Shaun Kinetic is co-founder and chief scientist of Charm Industrial. Shaun’s problem: How do you put billions of tons of carbon back into the ground?

Charm Industrial is fighting climate change in a …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Patching Together a Quilting Empire

Season 1 Episode 26

Al Doan is the executive chairman of the Missouri Star Quilt company.

Al's problem is this: How do you combine low tech and high tech to turn a niche hobby into a wildly successful company?

In 2008, …

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs

Season 1 Episode 25

Chris Severn is the co-founder and CEO of Turquoise Health.

Chris's problem is this: How do you figure out the real price trip of a trip to the hospital -- before it happens?

People have been trying …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Saving the World with Poop

Season 1 Episode 24

Mariana Matus is co-founder and CEO of Biobot Analytics. Her problem: How do you turn sewage into useful public health data?

When she and her co-founder launched the company, wastewater epidemiology …

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Building an Empire on Free Code

Season 1 Episode 23

Matt Mullenweg co-created WordPress, the open-source software that powers more than 40% of all the websites in the world.

He's also the founder of a for-profit company called Automattic.

Matt's probl…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Selling Billions of Crickets a Year

Season 1 Episode 22

Mohammed Ashour is the co-founder and CEO of Aspire Food Group. The company just built the biggest cricket factory in the history of the world.

His problem: How do you sell billions of bugs a year?

I…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase

Season 1 Episode 5

We put man on the moon before we invented the wheeled suitcase. Why did it take so long? Find out in this episode of Patented: History of Inventions, where host Dallas Campbell is joined by expert Ka…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

How the Nerds Conquered the NBA

Season 1 Episode 21

Rajiv Maheswaran is the co-founder and president of Second Spectrum. Rajiv and his company figured out how to turn raw sports data into useful information for coaches. Today, the company works with b…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago