Dive into the minds of inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to learn about their inventions, the failures they overcame, and how they took their ideas to market.
Santh Sathya: CEO of LuftCar, LLC
Santh Sathya joins host Richard Miles to discuss how his company, LuftCar LLC, is revolutionizing the realm of regional transportation, providing both sustainable and affordable multipurpose mobility vehicles.
Raha Saremi: Founder and CEO of EcoaTEX
Raha Saremi joins host James Di Virgilio to discuss how her company, EcoaTEX, is disrupting the highly pollutive textile industry by using natural materials to develop sustainable products for dyeing, coating, and finishing textiles.
Carlos Moreno: Chief Scientific Officer at ResonanceDx, Inc.
Carlos Moreno joins host James Di Virgilio to discuss his medical diagnostic company, ResonanceDX, and his unconventional journey to becoming a medical researcher.
Dr. Christine Schmidt: Biomedical Engineer and Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee
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Using a Computer Hands-Free
Mohit Patil and Parth Shah advise other future entrepreneurs on conceptualizing a company and its products: "Don't come up with a solution looking for a problem, that almost always never works out...
A COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment
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Cleaning Water with the Help of Cacti
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Using Artificial Intelligence To Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Susann Keohane discusses how she uses remote sensing to study behavior patterns in the aging population, a project she hopes will help the elderly thrive: "Overall, I really want us to make older adults feel like technology is for them...
CEO 101: Craig Bandes and Financial Strategy
Craig Bandes discusses how to avoid the same pitfalls of companies he has worked with in the past and how to create a structurally sound order of operations through his experience in business and finances: "And you get to a point where you just realize that if I don't try it, I'll never know, and I'll always regret it.
CEO 101: Weaver Gaines and Growing a Company
Weaver Gaines shares his experiences as the CEO of several startup companies in terms of the highs, the lows, the expected, and the unexpected: "So I think you can inculcate a culture from the top, from the beginning, that says, 'We don't lie.
CEO 101: Vinny Olmstead and Funding an Idea
As a first-time founder and CEO, guest Vinny Olmstead reflects on what it felt like to start something new: “The one word I would use is just excitement.
CEO 101: Ron Tarro and the Idea of Business
On what it’s like becoming the CEO of a startup and gradually having more and more employees taking over some of the day-to-day responsibilities, guest Ron Tarro says the following: “It’s almost better to view what you’re building as a machine; it’s a machine where, if you actually step back from it, the machine keeps running.
Meet The Hosts
Richard Miles
Richard Miles is a co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention. A career Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State, Miles’ assignments included serving with a provincial reconstruction team in Karbala, Iraq and on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, along with postings in Argentina, Germany, and Barbados. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Miles served as a Latin America policy advisor to Governor Jeb Bush.
James Di Virgilio
James Di Virgilio is one of the country’s leading fiduciary investors and financial planners and is among the elite 1% of the finance industry to hold both CIMA® and the CFP® designations. He is the co-founder of Chacon Diaz & Di Virgilio Wealth Management and was named a Gator 100 Honoree for spearheading one of the fastest-growing companies founded by a University of Florida Alum.
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