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iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon Apr 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:12 Guy Raz It came out of a robotics lab, a company that in its early years was building machines for NASA, for the U.S. military, and for some of the most dangerous environments on Earth.

Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018) Jan 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:41 Guy Raz And here, I mean, here's the thing, you, you see these ads, right, for Gillette or whatever razor it is, and they talk about this incredible technology as if it's like, you know, something that NASA invented.

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare: Dennis and Carrie Gross Mar 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 49:18 Guy Raz The technology was actually developed by NASA. 3 times in the scene

Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica Dec 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:06 Sarah Wyman Having that design mentality, I started calling around to factories and ended up finding after a lot of calling in factories in Asia and in the US, um, found an awesome designer in Vermont who had experience designing for other underwear…

CrunchLabs: Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 7:18 Guy Raz At JPL, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, that's, I, that's gotta be a really hard job to get. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:53 Guy Raz And so when you were at NASA, I mean, did you, did you see yourself as, as kind of a lifer when you were there?
  • ▶ 22:15 Mark Rober So it required me like leaving NASA. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:49 Mark Rober NASA.

Building a decarbonization army with Shashank Samala of Heirloom Feb 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:22 Guy Raz But even though Tempo had contracts for major clients like NASA, after a while, Shashank found himself wanting to focus on something bigger.

3D printing a housing revolution with Jason Ballard of ICON Feb 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 30:19 Guy Raz Wow, ok, so, so shortly after that, um, you were awarded a contract from NASA, and this is, this is a completely different part of your business that you're now focused on. 2 times in the scene

Shooting for the moon with Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines Dec 21, 2023 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 0:56 Guy Raz Steve spent most of his career at NASA, and while he loved it, he was also frustrated by the bureaucracy and what he felt was the lack of ambition. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:40 Guy Raz Yeah, this was during, this was 2013, I think you left, and not, and again, not in any way to, to blame any particular administration, because NASA budgets were just, like, cut, you know, um, progressively cut over, over, over years, but I… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:36 Steve Altemus So the agency was still, and the, and the, uh, executive branch and the, uh, um, legislature were still about a capabilities driven architecture with no plan to go back to the moon. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:39 Guy Raz That's what NASA estimated to, to
  • ▶ 17:28 Guy Raz In 2019, NASA awarded three companies, private companies, contracts to build robotic lunar landers.
  • ▶ 30:16 Steve Altemus Uh, we submitted a, uh, proposal to NASA, um, to build their lunar terrain vehicle, which is the. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:55 Steve Altemus The lander is something that we've taken great care to build with a lot of know-how from our days in NASA and in aerospace, and we've been able to go look at 2 times in the scene

HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti Apr 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:36 Guy Raz They formed, like, a joint venture, and they provided most of the rockets for NASA and the U.S. military, and they kind of had a lock on it, right? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:20 Joe Laurienti We have to meet the needs of Air Force, Space Force, NASA, Missile Defense Agency, you know, really any customer that comes along, or even the customers of our customers.

Osprey Packs: Mike Pfotenhauer Feb 20, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:55 Mike Pfotenhauer A contract group that was building for Gore-Tex, they were kind of doing top secret work on, uh, I think NASA spacesuits, and they told us that that was their last day in operation, and that the building would be available, and that there…

HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz Nov 10, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:02 Shimon Elkabetz Even in space, you know, NASA started to work more and more with space X and other companies in the last few years.

Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler Dec 13, 2021 · 33 mentions

  • ▶ 1:26 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how three scientists at NASA left their jobs to build satellites literally in a garage and launched Planet Labs, a data company that now takes about three million photos of the Earth every single day. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:27 Guy Raz He also studied physics, and both he and Will spent time doing internships at NASA.
  • ▶ 10:39 Will Marshall Well, roll forward a few more years, he moved from the Air Force to NASA, to run NASA Ames Research Center, and he basically invited us to come work with him, and he was like, well, I know we disagree on this area, but this will be more… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:38 Will Marshall Yeah, no, actually, but it wasn't just, um, NASA people.
  • ▶ 14:28 Robbie Schingler We, uh, we really wanted to, well, we were working on bringing small satellites to NASA. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:58 Guy Raz And, and meanwhile, uh, Will, um, you and, and another guy at NASA, um, whose name is Chris Bosshausen, uh, you were working on this project called PhoneSat. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:34 Guy Raz NASA, um, obviously has the greatest space satellites in human history, right? 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:47 Guy Raz So it's the last day of 2010, and Will, Robbie, and another NASA scientist, Chris Bosshausen, are getting together, as they always do, on New Year's Eve. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:31 Will Marshall That was in 2010, just at the end of 2010, when we technically formed the company, incorporated the company, uh, but we slowly started moving more and more time from NASA to what became Planet, and, um, Robbie and I were living in that… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 31:13 Guy Raz If you had already essentially tested it when you worked for NASA.
  • ▶ 34:47 Will Marshall The satellite project that we were working on at NASA, we met, uh, someone there who was quite unassuming there called Steve Jurvetson, who was a venture capitalist, um, actually became the main funder of Tesla and SpaceX, and, and we met… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:08 Will Marshall When we left NASA, we said we were going to image the whole earth every day. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 58:02 Will Marshall I mentioned how when we left NASA to star planet, it was a very much a stars aligned moment.

Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna May 11, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:08 Pierre Paul We have some students who interned for NASA who've been looking for a passion project.

Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar Feb 8, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:06 Mike Cannon-Brookes Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, but there was a massive team of people at NASA that put that thing into the air and got it in the moon and everything else, right?

How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall Jul 30, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:31 Taha Bawa And she was able to find others like her in the U S connected intern at NASA, did incredible things afterwards.

Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell (2018) Jul 6, 2020 · 1 mention

Kickstarter: Perry Chen (2018) Dec 31, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:33 Guy Raz And it turns out that other guy was a former engineer at NASA.

Live Episode! Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin Dec 17, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:57 Guy Raz And here, I mean, here's the thing, you, you see these ads, right, for Gillette or whatever razor it is, and they talk about this incredible technology as if it's like, you know, something that NASA invented.

Tempur-Pedic: Bobby Trussell Oct 22, 2018 · 1 mention

Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 · 1 mention

Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman Aug 7, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:41 Guy Raz And it turns out that other guy was a former engineer at NASA.
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