The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast

Some of the world’s most powerful ideas start in a university lab. These innovations drive humanity forward and make our lives on Earth more sustainable. But how do we get those ideas out of the lab and into the real world? On the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure sits down with academics, technologists, and policy leaders at Stanford to understand how they are building a resilient and sustainable future, using the disruptive force of entrepreneurship.

Episodes

A $2T Market, Inefficient Cows, & Great Culture with Impossible Foods Founder Pat Brown & Nick Halla

November 20, 2025 • 41 mins

"There's just no way I could not do it," says Impossible Foods founder and former CEO Pat Brown. "I felt like there's nothing more important I could do in terms of really having a positive impact on the world." Brown is also an active professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford, and the co-founder of the Carbon Ranch in Arkansas. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure talks with him and GigaClimate ...

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Grid Resilience, Pivots, and Radical Collaborations with Magnefy's Debbie Senesky & Joseph Kao

November 13, 2025 • 45 mins

"I realized that it's not just about the technology. It's also the policy, the business model,” says Magnefy CEO Dr. Joseph Kao. “To really bring impact at a bigger scale to the world, we really need to understand interdisciplinary research and bring together different experts." Prof. Senesky is the co-founder of Magnefy, which uses AI to predict the needs of critical power assets like transformers, switchgear, and generators. In ...

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Batteries, AI, and Perfect Timing, with Mitra Chem’s Will Chueh & Vivas Kumar

November 6, 2025 • 49 mins

"The one thing that's almost impossible to change—or put another way, it's locked in on day one—is timing," says Stanford Professor Will Cheuh. "If you get the timing right, man, you are on a streak. But if you get the timing wrong, even with the same people, the same idea, nothing will happen." In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, join our host Sam McClure and Will Chueh, Director of the Precourt Institute for ...

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October 30, 2025 • 1 min

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The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast

Episodes

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Batteries, AI, and Perfect Timing, with Mitra Chem’s Will Chueh & Vivas Kumar

The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast | Trailer

Popular Podcasts

A $2T Market, Inefficient Cows, & Great Culture with Impossible Foods Founder Pat Brown & Nick Halla

Grid Resilience, Pivots, and Radical Collaborations with Magnefy's Debbie Senesky & Joseph Kao