The Twin Cities Business Show

What if the future of rocket propulsion was printed instead of molded? On this episode of the Twin Cities Business Show, we sit down with Cora Leibig, founder and CEO of Chromatic 3D Materials, a company based in Golden Valley that's pioneering advanced 3D printing technologies for industrial applications — including a breakthrough approach to 3D printing solid rocket fuel. Cora explains how C...

Stephen Regenold is the founder of GearJunkie and a leading voice in outdoor media, entrepreneurship, affiliate commerce, and digital publishing. Stephen built GearJunkie from the ground up, starting as a newspaper column to review new gear before turning it into one of the most influential outdoor media brands in America. Along the way, he sold the company, helped spearhead a $40 million media ro...

How does Dairy Queen create new Blizzard flavors? Why do some menu items go viral while others never make it to stores? And could a Mango Sticky Rice Blizzard ever come to America? In this episode of the Twin Cities Business Show, we sit down with Jane Friedrich, Executive Vice President of Research & Development at Dairy Queen, to go inside one of Minnesota's most iconic brands. Jane is a...

Kris Lindahl is one of the most recognizable business leaders in Minnesota. From his iconic billboard campaign to his Guaranteed Cash Offer program, he's built one of the largest real estate brands in the Midwest—and sparked plenty of conversation along the way. In this episode of the Twin Cities Business Show, Kris sits down with Twin Cities Business to discuss how he built his personal brand...

From a single location in Edina's Galleria to more than 170 committed locations nationwide, FACE FOUNDRIÉ has become one of Minnesota's fastest-growing franchise success stories. In this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show, we sat down with FACE FOUNDRIÉ founder and CEO Michelle Henry to discuss how she built the company, why she chose franchising from day one, and how she has scaled...

AI is going to transform every workplace, and that makes a lot of people afraid. At the first live taping of The Twin Cities Business Show, we asked Jaime Montemayor, the Chief Digital, Technology & Transformation Officer at General Mills, about this fear. No, he does not think AI is going to wipe out millions of jobs – but he thinks it will change them. It will change how businesses work, and...

How can we get the venture and startup ecosystem in Minnesota to really take off? According to Mary Grove of Bread and Butter Ventures, we need to shift resources from investments in real estate and late-stage private equity into venture capital. Those investments could provide necessary oxygen to innovators that are looking to build and scale their companies and create growth engines for the stat...

There are 75 million hourly workers in the United States, and many of them are not eligible for employer sponsored health insurance. In this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show, Kobby Amoah, CEO of Minneapolis-based digital health company River Health, wants to help close that gap. His company is building digital health plans for hourly workers. They work with companies like Taco Bell and Rai...

On this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show, we sit down with Hormel Foods President John Ghingo for an in-depth conversation about where the company is heading. The company runs top food brands like SPAM, Skippy, Planters, Applegate, Herdez, and more. How did the protein frenzy take over America? He shared some details on the long-running consumer trend and how people have recently been look...

In 2017, Skywater Technology was spun out from Cypress Semiconductor as an independent semiconductor foundry based in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 2026, it was announced that they would be acquired by quantum computing giant IonQ for $1.8 billion. This episode is about everything that happened in between. We sat down with the company's CEO, Thomas Sonderman, to hear more about their path to beco...

How do you build a summer resort from the ground up? The Oxborough family took Sugar Lake Lodge out of bankruptcy and built it up in the early 90s after it was abandoned for years. It continued their family's legacy of resort and hospitality work that dates back to the 1880s in Minnesota with Ruttger's Resort. Sugar Lake Lodge Co-owner Abby Oxborough sat down for an interview with The Twin...

To understand the Twins payroll situation, you have to understand the business of baseball. And if you want to understand the business of baseball, you need to understand how debt works for a team like this one. This week on The Twin Cities Business Show, we sit down with our Editor Adam Platt to talk to him about his interview and the business of the Minnesota Twins. For our latest print issue, o...

North Wind's new hypersonic testing facility will make Rosemount, Minnesota the center of innovation for aeronautics and hypersonic testing across the United States. North Wind's CEO, Dr. Artie Mabbett, shares with us how their team plans to build and expand the facility in the years to come. Hypersonic flight, or planes that move five times the speed of sound, could make it possible to tr...

In this week's episode, Nate shared lessons on being an entrepreneur, educates us on why guitars are such great accounting tools for artists, and shares stories about his experience selling guitars to some of the biggest musicians on the planet. He covers a lot of ground, including how the Panama Canal brought Hawaiian music and the guitar to the masses in America, the story of the guitar as a...

How does a business survive an 85% drop in sales? Mercado Central lost 85% of their revenue during the month of January in Minneapolis. In this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show, Juan Linares, Co-founder of the market, takes us through that period of time and how they are navigating the aftermath. This episode is doubling as a fundraiser for the Mercado. You can donate to their GoFundMe her...

Decades ago, Minnesota used to have a large defense industry presence. Today, our state is 50th out of 50 for per capita spending from the Department of Defense (DoD), despite paying more in federal taxes than we receive in return. The DoD has the biggest budget of any department in the federal government, and Minnesota has been left out of many of their plans – until now. A new effort is looking...

If you are interested in how real estate really works, you're not going to want to miss this one. This week, we talk to Josh Krsnak, CEO of Hempel Real Estate, about his path to running a growing real estate company in the Twin Cities. He talks about growing up in Rochester, pouring over the tax code before he was 25, sleeping in a closet of one of their buildings every night when he was still...

What happens when you close your seed round the day that Covid-19 shuts down the world? "The best path is keeping your doors open." For Claros CEO Michelle Bellanca, it was a lesson in survival. On this episode of The Twin Cities Business Show , she shared how their company pivoted quickly to make masks using their anti-microbial, anti-viral textile technology, which allowed them to keep their lab...

We talked to Jonathan Rowntree, CEO of Niron Magnetics. They've been busting out of their Minneapolis headquarters and will be opening a manufacturing facility in Sartell in 2027. Jonathan shared that in the next few years, they plan to raise several hundred million more dollars, IPO, hit $1 billion in revenue, and open multiple manufacturing facilities around the world. Niron makes a powerful...