Rob Meyerson is the co-founder and CEO of Interlune. Rob's problem is this: How do you help build an economy on the moon? Eventually, Rob hopes Interlune will help build a moon base. For now, he is focused on bringing a gas called helium-3 back from the moon to sell on earth.

Earlier in his career, Rob was the president of Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos.

In this episode, Rob explains:

•  Why reusable rockets are only the first step for going back to the moon
• What it's going to take to actually manufacture things in space
• How to build a business by sifting through moon dirt
• How nuclear fusion and quantum computing could rely on mining the moon

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Aaron Edsinger left his job as director of robotics at Google to start a company called Hello Robot. Aaron’s problem is this: How do you build an affordable robot that people can use to solve real problems at home? The result is a robot that looks nothing like a person. In fact, it’s closer to a Roomba with an arm.

In this episode, Aaron explains:

•  Why home robots have barely progressed since the Roomba
• Why simpler robots can be more useful than complex humanoids
•  Why the physical world is so much harder for AI than language
• How robot safety is fundamentally a physics problem

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Ben Christensen is the co-founder and CEO of Cambium, the largest seller of salvaged wood in America. Ben's problem is this: How can we turn the trees that are falling to the ground all around us, into usable wood?

In this episode, Ben explains:

• Why so much wood goes unused
• Why Cambium created demand before building the supply chain
• How building a data layer across the fragmented lumber industry reduces waste
• Why salvaged wood can compete on price with conventional lumber
• The best mantra to use 80 miles into an ultramarathon

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