James Webb Space Telescope: Krystal Puga and Scott Willoughby
The Art of Manufacturing
$9 billion and a million miles away: we get a special behind-the-scenes tour of NASA’s most ambitious and risky project ever.
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Hydroswarm: Preeti Battacharyya
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An underwater roboticist is determined to map the 70% of our globe covered in water. But exploring our oceans is much harder than you think.
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Knock Knock: Jen Bilik
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Comedy isn’t always easy: one entrepreneur has learned some tough lessons manufacturing irreverent gifts that don’t meet everyone’s tastes.
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Lumi: Jesse Genet [encore]
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Packaging should be your secret weapon, and this episode will show you how.
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Desktop Metal: Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg & Andy Roberts
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Meet the 3D printing company that might totally change how we manufacture, design, and even develop products.
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SmartyPants Vitamins: Courtney Nichols Gould [encore]
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Amazon is eating the world! A wellness entrepreneur shares her secrets to launching a consumer product in today’s complex retail environment in this rebroadcast episode.
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Tulip Interfaces: Rony Kubat & Erik Mirandette
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Digitizing the factory isn’t always easy. A former counter-intelligence officer and former reality TV star, both manufacturing nerds, talk about how they hope to bring modern data tools, the Internet of Things, and Lean Manufacturing to every factory floor.
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David Charlot: Charlot Biosciences
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We meet a bioengineering startup with a groundbreaking new tool that might change the way we identify and treat disease.
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Wiivv: Shamil Hargovan and Chris Bellamy
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A startup builds custom, on-demand 3D printed shoes and gives a glimpse of what innovation might look like in the future.
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Micki Krimmel: Superfit Hero
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Roller derby inspires a body-positive athletic fashion brand that’s just hitting a tipping point. Though finding a factory that will take her business has gotten easier, the real challenges have just begun!
info_outlineCustomer trust and deep supplier relationships are the foundation for The Honest Company’s former head of operations as she launches a new venture-backed company pioneering all natural fragrances sold online.
Scents online? I was curious to learn how she pitched VCs on that idea! We delve into her journey leading her first startup. We also get insights from her prior experience at The Honest Company, where she managed a complex supply chain of hundreds of contract manufacturers (CMs) that had to deliver on their promise of all-natural consumer products. Being a purpose-driven company that cares about its supply chain has unique challenges, and we discuss how to navigate them. We get her expert tips for working with CMs and raising capital.
She went a year and a half without a salary and invested $100,000 of her own money to turn her dream into reality. Meanwhile her dad, the successful Taiwanese tech entrepreneur who was her inspiration, did not always give her the encouragement she might have liked--mostly because he knew from personal experience how hard entrepreneurship can be. It hasn’t seemed to slow her down.
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