Optimists Make Money
by Stephen McBride
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Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money. Learn about the near future directly from the people building it. Conversations with top 1% founders and innovators building tomorrow's most important companies, giving you practical insights to make the right investing, business, and career decisions. Hosted by Investor and Author Stephen McBride.
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- The Rocket Part Holding Back America's Missile Production | Orbital Composites · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 22Order Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks. https://www.riskhedge.com/order-disruption-investing A…
- Turning Mercury Into Gold Inside a Fusion Reactor | Marathon Fusion · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 21Order Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks. https://www.riskhedge.com/order-disruption-investing…
- The New Satellite Economy: Beyond Cheap Rockets | Muon Space · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 20Order Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks. https://www.riskhedge.com/order-disruption-investing…
- Why America's Military Systems Still Can't Talk to Each Other | Picogrid · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 19America can build advanced fighter jets and autonomous drones. So why do its military systems still struggle to talk to each other? Zane Mountcastle, founder of Picogrid…
- This Warehouse Robot Could Change Shipping Forever | Pickle Robot Company · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 18Physical AI could transform the supply chain—but why is unloading a truck still so hard to automate? Pickle Robot founder and CEO AJ Meyer explains what separates an impressive…
- How China Got Ahead—and How America Can Catch Up | Compilation · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 17Order Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks. https://www.riskhedge.com/order-disruption-investing How…
- China Controls 90% of Rare Earths. This Startup Has a Fix | Maglut · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 16Order Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks. https://www.riskhedge.com/order-disruption-investing…
- This Machine Could End America's Water Shortages | Eden · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 15Water scarcity isn't only a climate problem—it's an engineering and infrastructure problem. Hunter Manz, founder and CEO of Eden Technologies, joins us to explain Genesis: a…
- Firefighting Drones: The 5-Minute Fix for America's $1 Trillion Wildfire Problem | Seneca · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 14Can an autonomous firefighting drone stop a wildfire before it spreads? Seneca is building AI-powered firefighting drones designed to reach early-stage fires in minutes—before a…
- Hunt the Archer, Not the Arrow: Why the Military's Biggest Enemy Is a $20K Drone · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 3Preorder Stephen's new #1 Bestselling book, Disruption Investing: The Framework to Multiply Your Wealth in Disruptor Stocks for only $2.99…
- Turning Nuclear Waste Into the World's Longest-Lasting Battery | Omega · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 12The U.S. has 95,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel sitting in parking lots across 30 states — and Stafford Sheehan thinks it's the country's biggest unclaimed asset. His company…
- America Needs to Build Again. Its Factories Aren't Ready. | Dirac · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 11Fewer than 10% of U.S. manufacturing facilities have a single robotic arm. By 2030, America will have over 2 million unfilled manufacturing jobs. Filip Aronshtein, CEO of Dirac…
- Is Embryo Selection Eugenics? He Says No. | Herasight · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 10Is selecting embryos to avoid devastating diseases the same thing as eugenics? Jonathan Anomaly of Herasight says no — and the data behind his argument might change your mind. In…
- "Synthetic Fuel Could Cost 30% of Today's Fossil Fuel" | Syntholene · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 9Could synthetic jet fuel become cheaper than fossil fuel? Syntholene CEO Dan Sutton believes geothermal energy, high-temperature electrolysis and captured carbon could bring that…
- They're Actually Going to Mine an Asteroid | Astroforge · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 8AstroForge is attempting what no private company has ever done: reach a metal-rich asteroid, mine it for platinum and bring that material back to Earth. If it works, the company…
- Matt Ridley Knows How to Stop the AI Apocalypse · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 7Matt Ridley has spent decades studying evolution, innovation, energy, genetics, and the forces that shape human progress. In this conversation, he argues that many of today's…
- The Future will be Built, Not Coded | Jamie Gull · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 6For the last 30 years, software created many of the world's biggest fortunes. But according to Wave Function Ventures Partner and former SpaceX engineer Jamie Gull, that era is…
- Look Inside the Startup Making Homes Affordable Again | Cuby · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 5What if we've been trying to fix housing the wrong way all along? Most companies are trying to build better houses. Cuby is trying to reinvent the entire process of construction…
- This Founder Says AI Can Educate a Billion Kids | Alpha School · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 4Joe Liemandt, founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, is betting $1 billion that a two-hour AI-powered learning sprint can replace the traditional six-hour…
- The Startup Lifting Cities out of Flood Zones | Laurence Allen of Terraform · 1 h 3 min · Season 2 Episode 3Laurence Allen, founder and CEO of Terranova, explains why flooding and land subsidence are unsolvable with seawalls alone — and how his company is using underground robotics and…
