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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 …
3 years, 11 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?…
3 years, 11 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…
4 years 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 hospi…
4 years 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-foun…
4 years, 1 month 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 …
4 years, 1 month 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 p…
4 years, 1 month 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,…
4 years, 1 month 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 inform…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Trick to Flying Cheap
Season 1 Episode 20
David Neeleman has founded five airlines, including JetBlue. He recently launched a new airline, called Breeze.
His problem: How do you use technolog…
4 years, 1 month ago