Michael and Colin meet with Lt. Cmdr. Mitchell Kempisty to discuss astronautical engineering, the role of education in invention, and the challenges facing an entrepreneur while serving as a naval executive officer and commanding officer.
Michael and Colin talk entrepreneurship, investing, and creativity with American entrepreneur and angel investor Keith Schacht.
The Perpetual Motion podcast visits the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition and talks with several of the 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes. Timestamps: 2:02 - GreenLIB : One-step pre-treatment process that extracts and refines critical battery elements 4:25 - Rora : Committed to bettering women’s health at every life stage by creating innovative products for menopause symptom management 8:10 - Safe Marine Transfer : Focused on safe subsea che...
Michael and Colin meet with Lonn Cunningham, a veteran, inventor, and dedicated fisherman. Lonn shares how his mobility disabilities have put him in a unique position to help people find human connection.
In this episode, Michael and Colin talk to inventor and professor, John Hetling, about his ground-up process for teaching the next generation of inventors, as well as his novel approach to addressing health issues through scans of the eye.
Michael and Colin talk with innovator, creator, director, advocate, and inventor (whew) Audrey Rumsby about unconventional fundraising for art patronage, the preservation of cultural heritage, body dysmorphia, startups, and parenting, to name a few of the topics covered. Guest: Audrey Rumsby
For the 50th episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler revisit a number of their past guests to check in with them and see how each of their endeavors have progressed in the intervening years. Timestamps: 03:43 – Lisa Wallace from Episode 8: From Potato Farms to Server Farms 11:57 – Bob Cousins from Episode 9: Meet the Inventor of the Year 21:36 – Craig Grossman from Episode 19: Something Big About Something Small 32:35 – Danny Hillis from Episode 3: Pursuit of Curiosity: Inside an Inventor’s Mind...
Michael Glenn and Vikram Iyengar visit the Austin Tech Week 2024 Startup Crawl . Listen in as they meet and mingle with Austin’s foremost startup entrepreneurs. 01:35 - Everlume Bio – Pioneering a new approach to drug development for rare diseases. 13:01 - Imperium Technologies – Delivering cutting-edge technology that replaces manholes and stethoscopes with web browsers and smartphones. 20:20 - Arovia – Develops nanomaterial tech with display, lighting, energy, and automotive applications. 25:0...
Colin Fowler and guest host John Fuller visit TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Listen in as they meet and mingle with the foremost startup entrepreneurs. 2:12 Metal Light – is a clean-tech startup that advances metal-air technology and develops clean and sustainable power generators. 9:50 BANF – is a Korea-based company that uses sensors to collect data on tire pressure, temperature, tread wear, wheel alignment, and even lug nut stability. 17:36 Rarefied – is developing a novel propulsion mechanism that...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss pioneering innovation and disruption with serial entrepreneur Nathan Schulhof.
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler speak with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard of LimaCharlie about cybersecurity as a buildable cloud service. Maxime discusses a thoughtful approach to product development that puts cloud service structure into context in terms of both market forces and the historical development of cybersecurity products. “But the fundamental truth behind it is, all of this is just stuff made up by humans to make a system work. And if you read about it and you go and you tr...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss, inter alia, how passion and anger drive creativity with renaissance man John Dolmayan, drummer with System of a Down, entrepreneur, inventor, artist, author, and founder/CEO of Ship Assure and SGCC, Inc. “ Somebody has to be successful, at all times. Why can’t that person be you? That’s the dream. It keeps the dream alive. It keeps you working and putting that effort in to make, make the difference. As long as you dream, you live. ” – John...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Chris Needham and Frank Oudheusden, engineering consultants in the solar field, about issues faced in designing solar arrays and how radical changes in the market and technology lead to radical adaptations of the associated engineering. “My advice is to find a growth industry where you're not staring at a whole mass of experts that got in before you so that you're allowed to try the new things and to make the mistakes.” - Chris Needham, M...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Lisa Myers, inventor of Ceres Chill. As a new mom, she built a successful business aiming to solve the problems she faced in the workplace as a nursing mother and lawyer. “I'm so proud to be working in support of hero moms and families everywhere, bringing science to the table.” - Lisa Myers, CEO and Founder, Ceres Chill
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Dr. Cecil Christensen, an orthopedic surgeon. Dr. Christensen, a medical pioneer who performed the first hip replacement surgery in the U.S., shares stories and discusses the hard work, foresight, and innovation that guided him on his journey. “I had asked the British surgeon if I could come and work with him the following year. And he says, well, write me a letter. And so I did.” --- Cecil Christensen, M.D., Orthopedic Surgeon...
Join host Michael Glenn and guest host Dan Austin at the Capital Factory 2024 SXSW Startup Crawl. They travel the floor to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and government agency representatives who are bringing about the future of innovation.Your guided tour begins here: [1:55 ] Vlogmi —A social media platform focused on sharing genuine and authentic content to create a positive effect on digital well-being. [7:08 ] EVE —A drone network that can be safely used in an urban environment, allowing first...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Barmak Heshmat and Christopher Barsi of Brelyon to discuss their immersive Ultra Reality displays. Their topics include the technical aspects behind the perspective and optics required to achieve a 10’ virtual display from a significantly smaller physical screen.
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss earth observation with Clint Graumann, CEO and co-founder of Nuview, a company that is building a commercial satellite constellation dedicated to annually mapping the planet’s entire land surface using LiDAR technology.
In this episode, Michael and Colin talk to Kumar Gaurav, a former manager on Perkins Coie’s Finance Digital Transformation team. While at the firm, Kumar developed an artificial intelligence (AI) platform named Harold, for presenting varied manners of complex financials to firm partners. Kumar describes what the process was like for developing new inventions from within the unique law firm environment.
1:00 - Eve Vehicles —Drone network that can be safely deployed in an urban environment, allowing first responders to deploy the right resources to address a problem as quickly as possible. 10:29 - Advanced Telesensors —Provides completely touchless heart rate and respiratory rate sensing without the use of a wearable for everyday general wellness. 12:46 - Keywell.ai —Provides strategic data science and analytics services to help healthcare organizations improve outcomes and affect lives. It help...
Join host Colin Fowler and guest host Suzana Gadzo as they travel the floor at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to meet inspiring entrepreneurs committed to creating innovation’s next wave. Your guided tour begins here: Toi Labs - 00:59: provides early detection and health monitoring through advanced toilet technology. Plantiga - 08:28: is a human analytics company focused on gait analytics, sensors, and instrumented footwear. PetNow - 16:35: is a biometric pet ID that utilizes a unique pattern of a dogs...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Hope Shimabuku, director of the Texas Regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to learn how the Patent Office fulfills its mandate of encouraging and protecting innovation, including by reaching out and serving underrepresented and overlooked inventors.
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Ajay Bam, CEO and co-founder of Vyrill, about indexing the content within hosted videos by timecode to enable direct navigation within videos.
On the third anniversary of the Perpetual Motion podcast, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler meet with Chris Beaman, founder of Astronomic, a matchmaking service that helps entrepreneurs, founders, and investors build their professional networks. Prior to Astronomic, Chris was in marketing and developed some of the first influencer campaigns by brokering relationships between social media personalities and brands.
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Eric Bartsch, co-founder and chief executive officer, and Erik Lindbergh, co-founder and executive chairman, of VerdeGo Aero, about the application of hybrid-electric generators to power electric motors on airplanes, improving efficiency and maneuverability. The future of flight is electric.
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Aarash Darroodi, Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, about humanity’s common language—music. Aarash takes us on a journey that includes the movement of music across cultures; current innovations in music, including the acoustasonic guitar; and the future of artificial intelligence (AI) as an influence on musical style.
Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler sit down with Molly Kocialski, the director of the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as she shares stories about innovation in the climate tech space and programs at the USPTO that incentivize further discovery. Molly explains the value of research and quantification when pursuing end solutions.
For the second year in a row, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler visit the South By Southwest® Creative Industries Expo. Join us as we travel the floor to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and government agency representatives that are bringing about the future of innovation. Your guided tour begins here: 00:41: EverCase is disrupting the freezing process using electrical and magnetic fields to prevent ice crystals from forming. 13:48: Visual Note is a device that instantly turns a guitar into a musical ...
In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss the genesis of South by Southwest (SXSW) with Hugh Forrest, the festival’s co-president and chief programming officer. Hugh describes the processes for selecting programming and what happens every year when hundreds of thousands of the world’s creative avant-garde descend on Austin for SXSW.
Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler talk with Gene Dolgoff, CEO at Holobeam Technologies Inc., about applications of holograms and wave interference to achieve the “teleportation” of energy. Gene has developed an array of wave emitters that align waves in such a manner that causes destructive wave interference where energy is not desired and constructive interference where the energy is desired. Among other uses, the selective effect of coordinated wave interference enables the removal of cancer cell...
