Max Bratter

The Pitch Room

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Everyone wants to know how they did it. The Pitch Room goes and asks. Host Max Bratter travels across the country — NYC, Houston, San Francisco — sitting down with founders and builders who share one piece of the entrepreneurship puzzle: their chapter, their city, their truth. Subscribe and watch the full picture come together.

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Max Bratter

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Tony Cordova: Pathologically Helpful 03.07.2026 49:39

Dr. Tony Cordova has spent his career building the systems that turn student ideas into companies. From a biotech spin-out on Chicago's South Side, to a biochemistry PhD at UT Austin, to running Nucleate across all of Texas, he now heads early-stage ventures at Rice University's Lilie Lab. He calls his approach pathologically helpful, and the default is yes. In this episode of The Pitch Ro...

Scott Nortman: From Spacecraft to the Operating Room 19.06.2026 29:49

Scott Nortman has spent his career building robots, from spacecraft that fly in formation to surgical systems that help doctors operate. The one closest to home is a bedside robot built to solve a problem he watched in his own family: a CPAP mask his father-in-law tore off in his sleep every single night. In this episode of The Pitch Room, Scott traces the full arc. From a kid who took apart every...

The Pitch Room — Coming Soon 13.05.2026 0:30

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