Perpetual Motion® Podcast

Michael and Colin welcome Jason Langer, Vice President at Thornton Tomasetti and golf enthusiast, to discuss his work in structural engineering and architecture in volumetric construction and other fields, as well as his experience designing digital golf courses.

Michael and Colin welcome Mitch Braff, founder and CEO of Liquid View and discuss the health benefits of virtual windows, as well as a stint on Sharp Tank.

Michael and Colin discuss the space economy, asteroid mining, and building an off-world infrastructure for refueling satellites with Danial Faber, founder and CEO of Orbit Fab.

Join Perkins Coie partners Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler for a forward-looking conversation with Genies CEO, Akash Nigam, on how avatars are reshaping digital identity, creativity, and community. From the company’s vision and platform to practical use cases, they explore the intersection of avatars and generative AI, what’s possible today, and where the technology is headed next.

In this episode, Michael and Colin are joined by their Perkins Coie partner, Janice Ta, as they speak with Ben Burrus and Kevin Turpin of Weavix. Weavix is a company that combines real-time communication with AI-powered analysis of worker-interaction data to transform everyday conversations into actionable insights.

Problems looking for solutions will always find them. In this special holiday episode, Michael and Colin discuss wacky patents.  Timestamps: 0:46 –  Gravity Wheel Apparatus , Patent No. 3,625,089 3:34 –  Fresh-Air Breathing Device and Method , Patent No. 4,320,756 6:31 –  Aircraft Landing System , Patent No. 3,380,690 9:37 –  Device for Waking Persons from Sleep , Patent No. 256,265 11:50 –  Combi...

Colin Fowler and guest host, Ben Brokesh, visit TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Listen in as they meet with some of the foremost startup entrepreneurs.    Timestamps: 3:24 –  HyWatts  (Sam Ruben, CBDO and Co-Founder): Delivers clean, modular energy systems that turn renewable power into reliable electricity.   14:23 –  Tesollo  (Youngjin Kim, President and CEO; Wooseok Ryu, CTO): Solves complex problems...

Michael Glenn and guest host, Bryce Freund, visit the 2025 Austin Tech Week. Listen as they meet and mingle with some of Austin’s startup entrepreneurs.   Timestamps: 01:51 -  Orbit Fab  (Daniel Faber, Founding CEO): Founded in 2018 to eliminate the single-use spacecraft paradigm with in-space refueling.   10:50 –  DAYY Photonics  (Paul Golata): Supports the technological needs of our customers by...

In this episode, Michael and Colin enter the world of indigenous high fashion with Amber Dawn Bear Robe, curator of Native Fashion Week – Santa Fe.

Michael and Colin speak with the CTO of General Galactic, Luke Neise, about employing a water-based propulsion system in spacecraft to achieve high thrust for rapid maneuver and high efficiency for sustained operations in space.

Michael and Colin discuss fire pits, problem solving as a key feature of inventing, and perseverance with solo entrepren-eer, John Chadwell. 

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 innova...

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...

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. 20:2...

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 ali...

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 i...

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 worki...

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 b...

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