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  • Shopify: The Business That Helps Build Businesses

    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 the power of millions of small businesses to help them compete against…


  • Putting Carbon Back Into the Ground

    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? Charm Industrial is fighting climate change in a giant but…


  • Patching Together a Quilting Empire

    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 hobby into a wildly successful company?…


  • Revealing How Much Health Care Really Costs

    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 hospital — before it happens? People have…


  • Saving the World with Poop

    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-founder launched the company, wastewater epidemiology was a niche field…


  • Building an Empire on Free Code

    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 for-profit company called Automattic. Matt’s problem is this: How do…


  • Selling Billions of Crickets a Year

    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 problem: How do you sell billions of bugs a…


  • From Patented: Inventing the Wheeled Suitcase

    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, where host Dallas Campbell is joined by expert…


  • How the Nerds Conquered the NBA

    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 information for coaches. Today, the company works with basketball and soccer…


  • The Trick to Flying Cheap

    David Neeleman has founded five airlines, including JetBlue. He recently launched a new airline, called Breeze. His problem: How do you use technology to bring down the cost of airfares? He’s been working on that…