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Making life (and death) better despite regulatory barriers

2 months 2 weeks ago

Founders Gabriel Sanchez (Enspectra Health) and Tom Harries (Earth Funeral) share what it takes to build in heavily regulated industries where “move fast and break things” simply won’t work. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal the realities of navigating FDA approval processes, state-by-state regulations, and cultural taboos while building products that are literally […]

Isabelle Johannessen

Former Rivian exec says ‘Every car company will become a robotics company’

2 months 2 weeks ago

Jiten Behl, partner at Eclipse and former chief growth officer at Rivian, thinks we’re entering an era of major re-industrialization in the U.S. — one where factories run on AI-powered robots, not cheap overseas labor.   Behl, who helped scale Rivian from a conference room idea in 2015 to a publicly traded EV maker, is now […]

Kirsten Korosec, Theresa Loconsolo

Netflix growing up, data center jet engines, and the circular AI economy

2 months 3 weeks ago

A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn’t even the first one.  What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles are quietly becoming part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn’t happening in San Francisco’s robotaxis. It was playing […]

Theresa Loconsolo, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec
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