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
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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]
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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]
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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
The Art of Manufacturing
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_outlinePioneering wireless power: a rare interview from the charismatic and controversial founder of an L.A.-based startup that everyone thought would fail.
Meredith Perry founded uBeam back in 2011. Mark Cuban invested in the company and called it the next zillion-dollar idea. In 2015 Fortune called her “brilliant” and asked if she might be the next Elon Musk. But less than a year later, a key employee left the company in 2016 and skepticism grew about her company’s ability to deliver on its technical milestones. One can understand why Meredith isn’t keen on speaking with the media. For six years, her team has been quietly plugging away at the technology, and she’s only made herself visible again recently, to demo the technology actually working.
A couple of months ago, while she was wrapping up a $20 million raise, I came to her office bearing margaritas. I was hoping to get her to speak candidly about her journey—and she did.
I have to admit, I’ve been skeptical about the technology myself, so I was curious to learn how it works and the challenges she’s faced along the way. I wanted to learn what it’s been like to bounce back from her PR nightmare, and she humbly shares some of her lessons learned as a brainy young CEO managing a team for the first time in a high-stakes environment. We talk about geek chic, astrobiology, the no a-hole rule, and the struggles of trying to do something no one thinks is possible.
For more information, photos, and links, check out the show notes at http://makeitinla.org/meredithperry.
More Links:
uBeam website: http://uBeam.com
Social Media:
@meredithperry
@ubeam
About Meredith Perry
Meredith Perry is the inventor of uBeam, a technology that uses ultrasound to transmit power over the air to charge electronic devices wirelessly. Using a patented system, uBeam is a wireless power system that can safely charge multiple electronic devices wirelessly at a distance.
Meredith founded uBeam in 2011 while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, Meredith served as a student ambassador for NASA, where she worked on technology to detect life on Mars, experimented in zero gravity and researched and published papers in astrobiology and medicine. She graduated in 2011 with a degree in paleobiology.
Meredith has been included in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” Mobilizers, Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Vanity Fair’s “The New Establishment.” She has also been recognized as one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People” and is the recipient of Elle Magazine’s Genius Award.