The Instafloss Invention – Eli Packouz – Ep 128 Eli is the inventor of Instafloss, the world’s first 10 second floss. I love invention episodes because we cover topics from engineering to marketing. We talked in detail about how Eli came up with the idea, how…
Automated Pool Chemistry Monitoring – Ravi Kurani – Ep 127 Ravi Kurani is the CEO and founder of Sutro, which is a water chemistry monitor company. He grew up working for his dad who owned pool supply stores. He went to college for a mechanical…
Video Game Entrepreneur – Beau Button – Ep 126 Beau Button President and CTO of Atlas Reality. Beau Button has a very interesting story and spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3D printing. He has a background in computer hardware and software. Atlas Reality builds video games as a consultancy and…
Liquid Instruments- Daniel Shaddock – Ep 125 Daniel Shaddock is the CEO and Founder of Liquid Instruments (LI). LI makes high precision scientific equipment. They take the complexity of the physical world and push it into the digital world using software and high-powered computers. Some of their devices are used by NASA on the space…
Launch Cart Ecommerce Platform – Greg Writer – Ep 124 Greg is the CEO of Launch Cart, an ecommerce platform. He got his start by working as an investor. He invested in inventors and startups. He is an inventor. One of his early inventions was a kid’s safe browser in the 1990’s. We go…
Wealth Advisement for Engineers – Bill Keen – Ep 123 Bill Keen has a passion for helping others achieve their retirement dreams and founded Keen Wealth Advisors with this goal in mind. Bill specializes in advising those within the engineering community on issues related to ESOP plans, compensation, taxes and benefits planning. We talked about…
Machine Learning to Diagnose Health of Distributed Systems – Ava Naeini – Ep 122 Ava Naeini is the Founder and Data Architect of Pulse Operations, which is an intelligent engine that uses machine learning and statistical processing with various heuristics to determine the healthiness and performance of distributed systems.…
ThingLogix Company – Rob Rastovich– Ep 120 Rob Rastovich is the CTO of ThingLogix, a company that provides a low-code platform built on AWS, Google, and Azure to accelerate innovation and system development by a factor of 50 or more. We talk about examples of how his company…
Life Science Inventions and Patent LawKevin Buckley and Neil Thompson – Ep 119 Kevin Buckley(right) is the founders of Torrey Pines Law Group and Neil Thompson(left) is a patent agent with the firm. The firm focuses on life science inventions that often have an AI component. We discuss the differences between patent agents and patent attorneys.…
Youngest Person to Fly a Rocket to Space – Jordan Noone – Ep 118 Jordan Noone is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Embedded Ventures. He has had a lifelong interest in aerospace, including designing and building spaceflight hardware at age 18 while at the University of Southern California. He is also the first student…