If you told 19-year-old Larry Liu that his hobby re-selling used electronics for fun would someday help him build a multi-billion-dollar company, he probably would have laughed. He was an electrical engineering student in Shanghai at the time.His goals

Imran Chaudhri and his wife Bethany Bongiorno are responsible for bringing some of the most widely-used screened products to marketlike the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.And while these devices have connected humans like never before, Imran and Bethan

Mark Sisson made a big bet on mayonnaise, and won: four years after launching his Paleo-friendly condiment company Primal Kitchen, he sold it for $200 million. He succeededpartly because he drew lessons from his previous failures and accomplishments - as

Gene Berdichevsky and his team have been working for over a decade to solve a major problem: Lithium-ion batteries are not getting any better. They power our cell phones and laptops and nearly every other modern, rechargeable device—and at this point have

In 2016, Fawn Weaver became fixated on a New York Times article telling the little-known story of Nearest Green, a formerly enslaved man who taught Jack Danielyes,thatJack Danielhow to make Tennessee whiskey.After diving deeper into the story, Fawn

What if you could no longer trust the things you see and hear?Because the signature on a check, the documents or videos presented in court, the footage you see on the news, the calls you receive from your family They could all be perfectly forged by a

When the iPhone 4 was released in 2010, Manish Chandra was dazzled by its picture quality, and saw an opportunity for a new type of mobile marketplace.A year later, he and three co-founders launched Poshmark, a shopping app for second-hand clothes and ac

When Tristan Harris co-founded the Center for Humane Technology in 2018, he was trying to educate tech leaders and policymakers about the harms of social media.But today, hes sounding the alarm about a different technology one that he says could pose

In 2002, John MacFarlane and his co-founders began tinkering on what was then an ambitious idea: create a new way to enjoy music throughout the home, without wires. At the time, streaming and the iPod were brand new, and smart speakers were over a decade

Theres a new car coming to market that will probably make its owners search out the sunniest spots in the parking lot Aptera Motors is designing and manufacturing this car: a plug-in electric hybrid that can run up to 40 miles on a single, solar-powered