Interesting People for 20

Almost everyone loves a smoothie. Some like it as a treat and some as a health drink. For years there has been various approaches to commercializing this popular yet elusive combination of ingredients blended into a cocktail of flavors ranging from fruity to grassy. What I loved about this interview with the two founders of smoodi, was that it’s like a masterclass in scrappy start-ups that are worried more about consumer learning t...

If you're a competitive athlete or weekend warrior in your later years, you might want to read Haywire Heart- a very clear and understandable book about the endurance athlete and who too much of a good thing can hurt you. I know I wish I had read it sooner, but truth be told, very little information about hearth health and the endurance athlete exists. Co-author Chris Case and I met in 2019 cycling in the Alps when I first lea...

Lou Panaccione and I worked together in 1988-1989 on the creation of the Reebok PUMP. He was the head of R&D and I was just barely out of college. We've kept in touch and when Lou started Oofos, I just had to find out more. I love footwear- design, technology, and anything out of the ordinary. Check out this episode and hear how Lou and his colleagues have taken a different approach to creating footwear that's good fo...

For many of us, running a marathon is a dream. We  might train for one or two 26.2 mile marathon in our lifetime.  In todays podcast, I speak with Davis Cutter,  the Boston native, who in 2021, ran not one or two, but 52- yes- that’s one every week. In addition to his daily training runs of 6-8 miles and his marathon length runs, he also ran a number of longer runs, some up to 50 or 100 miles.

And yes, that’s straight, and...

Hi everyone- I thought I’d give you a quick update on the IPfor20 podcast and what to expect in the upcoming months. So far, we’ve heard from Susan Conover about her skin AI company and from Ed Warren, the nuclear weapons officer turned entrepreneur. 

Coming soon, I chat with an expert on climate change, what we can do about it, and the technologies he hopes will both save the planet and a turn a profit. I’ll chat with an ...

In today’s podcast I welcome Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, an AI pioneer who in received her PhD  at Cambridge university, started a company called Affectiva, and has been developing technology for high tech applications like automobiles and healthcare. Behind every entrepreneur and success story is a person, a real live person who has needs and desires like everyone else. When Rana and I chatted about what she wanted to talk about, we dec...

When Covid hit, it changed everything, especially how, and where we worked. Ed Warren was in the thick of building Zippity, a mobile car repair service that would fix your car while it sat in your company parking lot, whwn this new normal changed his company. With a quick pivot, Ed transformed Zippity into a software business and is now reaping the rewards. Hear how his military background kept him moving forward. To learn more abo...