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Because Sometimes a Chicken Sandwich Needs to Get to Space
Several years ago, KFC did something ridiculous. It hired a giant, stratospheric balloon maker called World View to put its Zinger Chicken sandwich into space. Or at least near space. This was an expensive, showy endeavor and no less than R
The Start-up Making IVF and Egg Freezing Faster and Less Awful
Dina Radenkovic has set out to reshape women’s health. Gameto, her start-up based in Austin, has spent the last four years working on stem cell engineering technology that it expects to aim at things ranging from fertility treatments to men
Fly Another Day: The Daring, Thrilling, and Misguided Life of a Test Pilot
In this episode, we’re joined by the test pilot Elliot Seguin to learn what it’s like to put your life on the line on a regular basis. Unlike most of the people in his profession, Seguin did not do the whole Top Gun-style military training.
Life After Extinction: Bringing Woolly Mammoths Back Via Artificial Wombs
Fresh off closing a $200 million funding round, Ben Lamm from Colossal Biosciences - now valued at more than $10 billion - joins Core Memory - now valued at less than $10 billion - to talk about bringing extinct animals back to our fair pla
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton on Zipline's Drone Delivery Journey from Blood to Burritos
A few weeks ago, I went out to Zipline’s test facility in Half Moon Bay, California for a dinner and to see their delivery drones in action. I was not expecting much. It feels like we’ve been promised delivery drones for years and years. An
Joe Betts LaCroix on Longevity and Building and Destroying Things
Sam Altman has placed a few very large bets. There’s OpenAI, of course, and Helion Energy for fusion; World (fka Worldcoin) for finance and identity; and then Retro Bio for longevity. In late 2023, I did a deep dive (https://www.bloomberg.c
