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Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world's most pressing problems.Whether it's climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef…
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How Two Grad Students Teamed Up With Sam Altman to Build an $8 Billion Nuclear Energy Company (opens the original)
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How does a nuclear energy startup with roughly a million dollars in revenue become an $8 billion publicly traded company sitting on $3 billion in cash? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Caroline DeWitte, Co-founder and COO of Oklo, to find out what investors are betting on and why the company believes it can deliver. Oklo is building compact nuclear powerhouses that use fast neutrons to extract up to 95 percent of the energy in nuclear fuel, compared to roughly fi
The Geothermal Startup That Made It Big (opens the original)
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What if the same drilling technology that powered the shale boom could be redirected to produce clean, carbon-free electricity around the clock? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tim Latimer, CEO and chairman of Fervo Energy, to explore how a former oil and gas drilling engineer built one of the most celebrated clean energy companies in the country in under a decade. Tim started Fervo in 2017 with two core beliefs: that the world would need more reliable clean ele
The Geothermal Startup That Made It Big (opens the original)
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What if the same drilling technology that powered the shale boom could be redirected to produce clean, carbon-free electricity around the clock? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tim Latimer, CEO and chairman of Fervo Energy, to explore how a former oil and gas drilling engineer built one of the most celebrated clean energy companies in the country in under a decade. Tim started Fervo in 2017 with two core beliefs: that the world would need more reliable clean ele
Did America Forget How to Build Nuclear Energy? (opens the original)
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Nuclear energy was supposed to transform the world. Then came Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and public trust collapsed. But for 25 years, engineers across a dozen countries have been quietly designing a new generation of reactors built to fail safely without relying on human intervention or mechanical backup systems. And the target date they set back in 2000 is almost here. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro speaks with Edward Friedman, a nuclear historian and advo
The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on How Good Companies Go Bad (opens the original)
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Most founders assume that building a great product and serving customers well will be enough to protect what they have built. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, argues that the assumption is dangerously wrong. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Eric Ries to explore why successful organizations are systematically pulled toward corruption by a force he calls financial gravity. The conversation examines how short-term investor incent
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