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Hosted by Paul Shapiro · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 199 episodes
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Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world's most pressing problems.Whether it's climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef die-offs, nuclear waste storage, plastic pollution, or more, many of the world's greatest challenges are also exciting business opportunities. On this show, we feature business leaders who are marrying profit and purpose by inventing solutions to both build a better world and offer investors a bang for their bucks.
Paul Shapiro hosts Business for Good Podcast, a business show with 199 episodes published.
What if the same drilling technology that powered the shale boom could be redirected to produce clean, carbon-free electricity around the clock? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tim Latim
What if the same drilling technology that powered the shale boom could be redirected to produce clean, carbon-free electricity around the clock? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tim Latim
Nuclear energy was supposed to transform the world. Then came Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and public trust collapsed. But for 25 years, engineers across a dozen countries have been quietly designing a ne
Most founders assume that building a great product and serving customers well will be enough to protect what they have built. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the new book Incorruptible, argues that the assumpti
Every year, roughly a billion birds die from flying into glass windows and buildings. The problem is massive, well-documented, and largely invisible to the public. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro talks
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor but support roughly a quarter of all marine life. They are dying fast, and in many places, the physical structure of the reef itself has already crumbled away. W
What if the things you believe are best for the environment are actually making it worse? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Hannah Ritchie, data scientist at Our World in Data and author o
Episode Summary: Five years ago, billionaire investor Jim Mellon came on Business For Good and laid out his thesis that cultivated meat and precision fermentation would transform the food system. Since then, venture capi
Episode Summary: What if the next great venture opportunity isn't in AI or fintech but in protecting nature itself? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Tom Quigley, Co-founder of Superorgani
Episode Summary: What if AI could help prevent bird strikes, train collisions, and livestock attacks by communicating with wild animals in ways they already understand? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro
Episode Summary: What if the most abundant protein on Earth has been hiding in plain sight inside green leaves? In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with Ross Milne, CEO of Leaft Foods, to explore
Episode Summary: What if one of the highest-leverage climate and poverty interventions isn't a new technology, a policy mandate, or a venture-backed breakthrough, but simply making permanent contraception easier for men
Episode Summary What if the global food system isn't "broken" in the way sustainability debates usually claim, and treating it that way leads to worse decisions? Paul Shapiro sits down with Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Ros
Alternative meat looks like it is collapsing. Startups are shutting down, funding is drying up, and headlines are calling the category finished, but that reaction may reflect a misunderstanding of how technological revol
Episode Summary A rice field does not look like the starting point for a scalable building materials company until you understand the economics behind it. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with
What if the fastest path to reliable clean electricity is not a new reactor design, but a new place to put one? In this conversation, Paul Shapiro speaks with Elizabeth Muller, CEO of Deep Fission, about a plan to place
If you've ever checked the ingredients on a baked good, you know how ubiquitous eggs are. They bind, they lift, they emulsify, they hold moisture — they're simply the structural engineers of cookies, cakes, and muffins e
What if planting trees could be not just good for the planet, but also a profitable business? In this episode, I'm talking with Ben Dell, the founder and CEO of Chestnut Carbon — a company that's raised nearly $400 milli
What if one solution to fashion's waste problem is literally growing on our own heads? Every day, salons around the world toss out millions of pounds of freshly cut human hair — a clean, protein-rich, renewable resource
When you hear the word nuclear, does your mind flash to mushroom clouds, Chernobyl, or maybe the glowing three-eyed fish from The Simpsons? Well, what if nuclear electricity — far from being an environmental villain — is
Hannah Ritchie
Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher, Our World in Data · Our World in Data
1 appearance on this show
Jim Mellon
Author of Moo's Law, Chairman of Agronomics · The Longevity Forum
1 appearance on this show
Tom Quigley
Expert · Superorganism
1 appearance on this show
Ross Milne
CEO · Leaft Foods
1 appearance on this show
Bruce Friedrich
President · The Good Food Institute
1 appearance on this show
Isabelle Boemeke
author of Rad Future
1 appearance on this show
Matt Atwood
regional product specialist · Air Capture, Inc.
1 appearance on this show
Tim Latimer
Fervo Energy
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt
rrreefs
1 appearance on this show
Sára Nožková
Flox Intelligence
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth Muller
Deep Fission
1 appearance on this show
Hadar Ekhoiz Razmovich
Meala FoodTech
1 appearance on this show
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Business for Good Podcast is hosted by Paul Shapiro. The show is categorised under business (education) and has published 199 episodes.
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