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Hosted by Steve Ispas · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 42 episodes
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Welcome to Bay Area Innovators. I am your host Steve Ispas. We will be talking to some of the most influential people, the ones who had and have a part in shaping what the San Francisco Bay Area is today. Some of them you may know, as they are well known celebrities, and some you may not know. Our conversations will help you to get to know them better as they share their views and insights as well as valuable life lessons. We also hope to get something they have not shared before, their secret of success, right here on this program.
Steve Ispas hosts Bay Area Innovators, a business show with 42 episodes published.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the atomic bomb decision that ended World War II remain among the most debated choices in modern history. Was dropping the atomic bombs in August 1945 necessary, or a moral line the world should
What is homeopathy, does homeopathy work, and why is it still so controversial 200 years later? Is it an overlooked healing tradition, a misunderstood complement to modern medicine, or simply a placebo effect at work? In
What happens when a former prosecutor writes a book so sensitive that the government bans it outright for six years? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Mike Lebowitz, combat veteran,
Are UFOs evidence of extraterrestrial life—or something far more unsettling? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Derrick Warfel, author of UFOs and God and filmmaker behind the upcomin
In 2019, a team at Google led by physicist John Martinis achieved something once thought impossible—a quantum processor completed in three minutes a calculation that would have taken the world’s most powerful classical s
What does it take to prove that quantum mechanics applies not just to atoms and electrons—but to objects you can actually see and build? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Dr. John Ma
What does the Constitution actually say about the issues dominating today's headlines? In this second episode with Ilan Wurman, constitutional law professor at the University of Minnesota and author of The Constitution o
What happens when the world's biggest sporting event collides with one of the fastest growing sectors in private transportation? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Barry Shevlin, CEO
What makes the U.S. Constitution different from every other governing document in history—and is it still working the way the founders intended? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Ila
What would drive someone to get detained during a military coup in Nigeria, stranded in a Mozambique civil war zone with lions nearby, and still get back on a plane to do it all over again? In this episode of "Bay Area I
In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Jeremy Levin, a South African-born physician and one of the most influential leaders in global biopharmaceuticals. Levin shares an extraordinary per
What does it take to turn personal loss into global impact—before you can even drive?In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Olivia Zhang, founder and CEO of Cancer Kids First, a nonprofit
The Iran conflict isn't just a Middle East story — it's a financial war with consequences for every American's wallet. In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, Steve Ispas sits down with Christian Briggs, CEO of Hard Asse
What really went wrong at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting — and why it could have been far worse. In this episode, Steve Ispas sits down with Dean Golemis, a 20-year law enforcement veteran, former NYPD o
What does it mean to return to land your ancestors called home for 14,000 years — after being exiled, nearly wiped out, and forgotten? In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, host Steve Ispas sits down with Ken Sandusky
What is it really like to work undercover in narcotics enforcement? In this unfiltered episode of Bay Area Innovators, 27-year SFPD veteran Britt Elmore takes us deep inside the shadows of San Francisco’s narcotics trade
“We had to be ready to drop a tremendous amount of ordnance to save this guy and protect the personnel that were extracting this pilot.” In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, Bronze Star recipient and retired Air Force
“My father said there are only two types of people: not black and white, but good and bad. Period.” In this episode of Bay Area Innovators, our guest Vince Everett Ellison shares a journey that began on a cotton plantati
"Happiness depends on happenings, and when the happenings dissolve, where are you?" In this profound episode of Bay Area Innovators, guest Ann Lesley Smith challenges the modern obsession with "chasing happiness". From h
Ben Narasin, a veteran venture capitalist and former entrepreneur, shares the lessons behind decades of building and funding companies. From flipping comic books as a kid to leading one of the early dot-com IPOs, his jou
Jeremy Levin
Dr. · Ovid Therapeutics
1 appearance on this show
Christian Briggs
CEO of Hard Asset Management · BMC Capital, Inc. and Hard Assets Management
1 appearance on this show
Ben Narasin
Venture Partner · Tenacity Venture Capital
1 appearance on this show
William Simpson
Special Artist and war correspondent · Wild Horse Fire Brigade
1 appearance on this show
Joette Calabrese
The Academy of Practical Homeopathy
1 appearance on this show
Dr. John Martinis
UC Santa Barbara
1 appearance on this show
John Clarke
Nobel Prize group
1 appearance on this show
Olivia Zhang
Cancer Kids First
1 appearance on this show
Dean Golemis
Global Security and Investigative Services
1 appearance on this show
Ken Sandusky
Modoc Nation
1 appearance on this show
Don Butler
Thomvest Ventures
1 appearance on this show
Craig Rucker
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
1 appearance on this show
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Bay Area Innovators is hosted by Steve Ispas. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 42 episodes.
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