The Engineering Entrepreneur Podcast

Exponential Theory – Aaron Bare – Ep 132 Aaron Bare is a bestselling author and speaker on the topic of exponential theory. He helps businesses grow at an exponential rate instead of a linear rate.  Large companies tend to think that 10% annual growth is good.  But Aaron argues that this mentality limits you and prevents exponential growth. We talked in depth about how emerging technologies are ch...

Michael Bogue is the brand manager of Benro Tripods in the US. He has a wide-ranging background from his current role managing tripods and lighting in the US, to his start in the photo business with DJI and drones.   We talked about Benro’s newest product, Theta. It is a smart, modular travel tripod with auto-leveling, an auto-lock QR ring, and more. They launched a Kickstarter and it has already...

Sean, CEO, and Co-Founder of  Helios are on a mission to empower stakeholders with comprehensive and actionable information around tonal analytics.  Helios is pioneering speech analytics for Wall Street. They have saved investors MILLIONS by eliminating tone deafness to increase confidence in trading decisions. They are the first and only company doing this in finance. We discuss how tonal nuances...

David Rose is an MIT lecturer, inventor, and five-time entrepreneur, who draws on culture, design, travel, and music to envision future products and businesses sparked by the next generation of technology. His last book, Enchanted Objects, is the definitive book on designing the Internet of Things. David wrote the seminal patent on photo sharing, founded an AI company focused on computer vision, a...

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 he validated it was something people wanted, and how he engineered it.  Eli worked with experts like dentists to create the ideal design...

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 engineering degree and after school worked for NASA.  He left NASA to start his company Sutro. We discuss the entire series of steps he took to bring his company to life. From idea validation, to prototyping, to m...

Video Game Entrepreneur – Beau Button – Ep 126  Beau Button President and CTO of Atlas Reality - Linkedin  - Has a very interesting story and spends a majority of his time outside of work building through 3D printing.  Beau has a background in computer hardware and software. Atlas Reality builds video games as a consultancy and builds their own games.     We talked about the process of building lo...

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 shuttle. They are measuring changes along the lines of a nano...

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.   Greg is an inventor. One of his early inventions was a kid’s safe browser in the 1990’s.   We go into details about how to raise money for your startup. For example, Greg went and befriended the mayor of t...

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 the differences in taxes and financial planning bet...

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. Many software engineers must constantly manually monitor their systems to see if there is a pattern developing that could lead to issues. Ava’s tool allows...

Engineering Career Coach – Jeff Perry – Ep 121 Jeff is a leadership/career coach for engineers and tech professionals and the founder of More than Engineering. He is also a host on the engineering career coach podcast. He helps engineers by working with them on their mindset.  Number one tip: to be intentional in what you are trying to become, whether an employee or entrepreneur. Contact info: htt...

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 provides value. The refrigerator example of how the software monitors the temperature of a refrigerator explains it wel...

Life Science Inventions and Patent Law– Kevin Buckley and Neil Thompson – Ep 119 Kevin Buckley is the founders of Torrey Pines Law Group and Neil Thompson 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. We also discuss the typical costs of getting a product patented....

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 and youngest individual in the world to get Federal Aviation Administration ...

Draft. Dev – Karl Hughes – Ep 117 Karl Hughes studied mechanical engineering in college but in his last year got into coding. His first job was building a blog for his college campus. From that, he worked in programming and managing writers. During the pandemic, he started his business, Draft.dev . His company writes technical posts for software companies. Blog posts are important for SEO but most...

Making a More Efficient Hot Water Heater – Tiago Bandeira – Ep 116 Tiago Bandeira is the founder of Klugit Company. His first product is an electric hot water heater. The problem is that a regular hot water heater does a constant on off cycle due to heat loss. This cycling wastes a lot of energy. We talk about how he started this company while working at Bosch, which is ironically a company I used...

Fulcrum, a SAAS ERP, MRP and MES Platform – Sunny Han – Ep 115 Sunny is the CEO and Founder of  Fulcrum . We talked mostly about ERP systems (which stands for enterprise resource planning). Most companies these days have ERP systems but many of them are not good. For example, many are not connected to the internet and therefore you would need to be at the factory to have access to the data. One of...

DPX Orion Underwater Tablet – Ali Keskin – Ep 114  Ali Keskin is the Business Manager of the company, Innovasub.   Innovasub is an underwater innovative technology firm founded by the ‘Design with Divers’ perception 15 years ago.  They have a new product called DPX Orion that just finished a Kickstarter Campaign. The DPX Orion is a water tight tablet case for scuba divers that has many application...

TangoTeams Software Development – Alex Murrey– Ep 113 Alex is the Head of North American Operations for TangoTeams, a startup that’s redefining the software development outsourcing industry. His career started at a law firm where he helped the firm implement their own software for tracking cases. Later he worked for a digital agency. At TangoTeams, they spend a lot of time upfront to truly underst...

Artificial Intelligence – Peter Voss – Ep 112 Joining us today is Peter Voss, a pioneer in AI who coined the term ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ and the CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai. For the past 15 years, Voss and his team at Aigo have been perfecting an industry disruptive, highly intelligent, and hyper-personalized Chatbot, with a brain, for large enterprise customers. Peter started as...

Sheet Metal Expert - Andrea Dallan - Ep 111 Andrea Dallan is an engineer, an entrepreneur and CEO of Dallan Spa , an Italian family business that has been producing systems for the processing of thin sheet metal since 1978. They have 160 employees that include engineers, technicians and operations. He is the author of the books “ The Revolution of Efficiency ” (2020) and “Think Thin”. Most mechani...

CEO of The North Face Company - Hap Klopp - Ep 110  Hap Klopp spent 20 years as CEO and President of  The North Face . In that time, he turned two small retail stores into one of the most recognized and well-respected outdoor gear companies in the world.  He also authored 2 books (and my uncle Brian Tarcy wrote the books).  1. Conquering the North Face  2. Almost  We discussed his background and h...

Outer Space Logistics – Luca Rossettini- Ep 109  Luca Rossettini is the CEO and Co-founder of  D-Orbit , Expert at the Space Advisory Group of the European Commission. He is an Aerospace Engineer with a Ph. D. in advanced space propulsion, awarded with honors by Politecnico di Milano.  Early in life, his goal was to be an astronaut, but he was not selected. So, he pivoted and started his company. ...

Create a business that can thrive without you – John Warrillow - Ep 108  John Warrillow is the Founder of The Value Builder System, a simple software for building the value of a company used by thousands of businesses worldwide.  John is an expert on how to guide business owners to structure their business so that is sellable. John has built and sold 4 companies. He has written 3 books on the topi...