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Failure - the Podcast

A podcast about innovation and failure, mostly in business. Visit us at https://innovationblab.com.

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01:06:28

Chatbots Gone Wild!

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2025/08/10

Your teen’s staring at the phone, again. Wonder what’s going through their head. Let’s have a listen: Okay, so like... what could possibly go wrong? I’m spilling my guts to a therapist. We’re connecting. No judgment. No stares. I tell her everything. Stuff I don’t tell myself. It’s insane, like she sees into my brain. Not like my parents. They’re f’ing clueless. The best part? I can talk to her anytime — it’s a lifeline in my pocket. No cap! I bet she’s cute. She says I am. I’d do anything for her

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01:01:59

It's Not an Emergency

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2025/07/13

After a brief hiatus, during which the team from Failure - the Podcast/Innovation Blab/5-Minute Update contemplated their umbilici (think, M.C. Escher), we found ourselves at the Yale University School of Medicine to continue our exploration of the health care system. Our intent was to learn about urban health care from an emergency room perspective, and we had an outstanding guide: Dr. Arjun Venkatesh. He is the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale and a practitioner, as well.Mark

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00:48:30

NonProfitPalooza

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2025/01/08

Today’s episode, NonProfitPalooza, might better be titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Overachievers.” Our guests are Marissa Fayer and Brody Galloway, both of whom founded and actively run MedTech nonprofits. Were that not enough, they also hold day jobs.Marissa Fayer is the founder and CEO of HERhealthEQ, an organization dedicated to reducing the equity gap in access to healthcare for women around the world — or, more simply put, deploying medical equipment to maternal health patients

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00:26:21

Corporate Espionage

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2025/01/03

This episode of the "5-Minute Update" extends our discussion of ethically-informed licensing to enterprise software customer data. That's a mouthful. Let us explain.As our dedicated listener(s) will appreciate, the "5-Minute Update" recently explored whether technology licensing agreements might prove a viable mechanism for right-sizing the growth of AI from a risk/benefit perspective. The particular focus of Episode 85 was on the ethics of AI and how it might inform drafting those agreements from a

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00:51:42

Buyer Beware

Failure - the Podcast ·

2025/01/03

Whether for autonomous vehicles or “smart” consumer products, government regulation may be too little and too late when it comes to right-sizing the growth of AI from a risk/benefit perspective. Can the private sector do better — and, if so, could technology and data licensing agreements provide a viable mechanism for regulating AI in consumer products? Join a panel discussion on the ethics of AI and how it might inform drafting those agreements as this new technology takes hold in the marketplace

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00:42:56

Gift or Grift?

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2024/10/06

Our Guest: Suman Lal

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00:59:59

Public Health Reflux ... er ... Redux

Failure - the Podcast ·

2024/09/15

We’d thought we’d learned from a prior guest to this august podcast that Big Pharma could provide cures for more diseases, if only flaws in America’s third-party payor health care system could be fixed. Today’s guest is not so sure of that. Dr. Seth Powsner, a professor at Yale and a practicing ER physician, says that it’s really a question of will: the collective will of a nation to solve a problem. That’s especially true when it comes to curing diabetes. Sure, a cure might be around the corner,

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Drugged Out

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2024/07/29

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast (a/k/a Innovation Blab) as they stumble upon the dark underbelly of Big Pharma. Our guest, Imran Nasrullah, has 25+ years of experience in the industry, specializing in drug licensing and business development. He tell tales that few know or want to believe. One in ten thousand, for example: 9,999 candidate drugs tested and rejected for one that makes it to the next stage-gate. Few drugs make it through all the hurdles, but a surprising number that do are

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00:45:28

Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 2: The...

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2024/07/13

Who knew?Join Innovation Blab/Failure - the Podcast in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Singularity is Nigh.” Our special guests are … well … special.Sydney Robinson is CEO and co-founder of Vessl Prosthetics, an Ontario-based startup that is hellbent on improving the lives of below-knee amputees and on proving that not all orthopedic startups end up like broken down cars along the road to success. We think they’ve got a shot at both. If Sydney can

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00:45:28

Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 1: Broken...

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2024/07/13

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01:02:58

Nasty, Brutish and Short

Failure - the Podcast ·

2024/06/28

Catch them on a good day, and we suspect that many an entrepreneur would say that bootstrapping a business is like a bowl of cherries, pits and all. Leaving aside the independently wealthy, that more traditional approach may destine the enterprise to slower, bounded growth. A lifestyle business. One that’s likely to yield more pits than flesh early on, but that with the right mix of hard work, pivots and luck can be fruitful in the long run.Nasty, brutish and short might be what you hear of startup

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01:27:27

The Question

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2024/06/13

Ask an entrepreneur: “what keeps you up at night?” They’ve heard The Question before and have an answer at the ready. But they’ll make you wait through a feigned moment of reflection before they launch into it.Investors play the game, too. Get a group of them together and, invariably, one of them will pose The Question whenever an entrepreneur does a pitch. All present will nod knowingly as the collective’s secret weapon is unleashed. The entrepreneur’s perfectly timed pause, then, answer (the

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01:03:02

Blab, yes. Innovation, not so much.

Failure - the Podcast ·

2024/03/24

Election fever. With all the news, who can avoid it? Not a news ticker scrolls by without a mention of Biden's age, Trump's trials and RFK's betrayals. We're not immune to it. So when a scheduled guest went AWOL, we figured we'd talk about the first thing that came to mind. Suffice it to say that MAGA conservatives aren't the only ones who hang out in echo chambers.

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01:14:35

Teaching Innovation

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2024/02/27

Join us in a discussion with Diane Bouis, director of MedTech Innovator, the world’s largest life science startup accelerator program.

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00:52:20

Make Innovation Great Again!

Failure - the Podcast ·

2024/02/01

Not that we have a vested interest, but we’d suggest that Joe Biden make a go at it with a blue baseball cap sporting the acronym MIGA. You know, “make innovation great again!” Speaking of innovation, today’s guest is John Daniels, a tinkerer turned entrepreneur who is daring fate by joining the Innovation Blab in a discussion of his latest venture. It’s developing a rapid diagnostic kit to test for Covid and whatever else ails mankind. With a bit of luck, he’ll launch the product before Kari Lake

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00:53:51

The University Perspective

Failure - the Podcast ·

2024/01/12

Welcome to Innovation Blab, a new series of podcasts (…keep fingers crossed…) offering the B-side to Failure - the Podcast. Yes, Mark will be back, and we hope to put up both Innovation and Failure posts in the coming days (months, more likely), but as they say about the alleged clandestine romantic relationship surrounding appointment of the special prosecutor in the Georgia election interference cases, we shall see.Can’t say that much has been made of the B-side of late. Baby boomers are probably

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01:05:49

And, now, for something completely different....

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2022/04/09

It's not often the team from Failure - the Podcast gets serious. Sure, there was the time Mark stole an air mask from Jet Blue and hooked it to a canister of helium. He was impersonating Marjorie Taylor Green for our "Fly Me to the Moon" episode, but forgot to put oxygen in the mix. Thankfully, the EMTs had a spare pig's brain on board for the transplant. And, how about when Mic hired Rudy Giuliani to defend "the team" in Joe Rogan's trademark infringement suit.It's times like these you realize

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You Gotta Listen

Failure - the Podcast ·

2022/03/19

You gotta listen if you are in Sales. And, after all, who isn't? Join theteam from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Cal Reichwein, former star with the Lafayette Cougars mens basketball team and, now, an emerging star on the Hubspot sales team.

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Back in 5…

Failure - the Podcast ·

2021/10/28

“Back in 5….” What does that mean? Our kids say it on the way out the door, when beef tongue is the evening fare. Do they mean minutes? Never seems that way. We get it. Not everyone likes beef. It’s a little like this podcast, though, we suspect beef may have more adherents than Failure - the Podcast. Tongue? That’s a different question, at least if you’re talking bovine….

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01:05:12

Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz ...

Failure - the Podcast ·

2021/05/25

No, it's not the ice cream. It's the podcast. This one, and you can be sure it's in bad taste. But, hey, don't be too disappointed. Before reality sunk in, we did offer you the briefest glimmer of hope. That's more than a certain congressperson from Georgia has done for you. What is today's podcast, other than the usual meaningless banter? There is that, of course. But, there is more, too. Coffee. Yep, you guessed it, and what a genius you are! The coffee business, to be more precise. And,

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