Failure - the Podcast

Failure - the Podcast

Failure - the Podcast

Episodes 89
Avg. Duration 57m
Activity Sporadic
Since Oct 2017
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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failure-thepodcast.com

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About This Podcast

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

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Recent Episodes

S6E15 Chatbots Gone Wild!

Aug 10, 2025 1h 6m

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…

S6E14 It's Not an Emergency

Jul 13, 2025 1h 1m

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…

S6E13 NonProfitPalooza

Jan 08, 2025 48m

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…

S6E12 Corporate Espionage

Jan 03, 2025 26m

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)…

S6E11 Buyer Beware

Jan 03, 2025 51m

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…

S6E10 Gift or Grift?

Oct 06, 2024 42m

Our Guest: Suman Lal

S6E9 Public Health Reflux ... er ... Redux

Sep 15, 2024 59m

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…

S6E8 Drugged Out

Jul 29, 2024

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,…

S6E8 Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 2: The Singularity is Nigh.

Jul 13, 2024 45m

Who knew?Join the Innovation Blab (a/k/a 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 ……

S6E5 Who Knew? A Time-Sink in Two Parts. Part 1: Broken Down Cars.

Jul 13, 2024 45m

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 ……

S6E6 Nasty, Brutish and Short

Jun 28, 2024 1h 2m

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…

S6E5 The Question

Jun 13, 2024 1h 27m

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…

S6E4 Blab, yes. Innovation, not so much.

Mar 24, 2024 1h 3m

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…

S6E3 Teaching Innovation

Feb 27, 2024 1h 14m

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

S6E2 Make Innovation Great Again!

Feb 01, 2024 52m

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…

S6E1 The University Perspective

Jan 12, 2024 53m

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…

S5E2 And, now, for something completely different....

Apr 09, 2022 1h 5m

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…

S4E3 Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz ...

May 25, 2021 1h 5m

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…

S4E2 Fun with Numbers

Apr 05, 2021 1h 8m

Sounds promising: fun with numbers. If not the mathematicians and physicists, certainly the accountants might get something from this podcast. And, if not them, the actuaries will have a field…

S4E1 Testing, Testing, One, Two, Three ...

Feb 26, 2021 56m

It took a little doing, but the team from Failure - the Podcast think they found the first use of that magical phrase "testing, testing one, two, three.....". No, it wasn't in 2010, when Biden…

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Failure - the Podcast has published 89 episodes since October 2017, covering topics in Business, Business News.

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