Unreasonable Stories

She turned London’s retired fire hoses into a luxury brand

Kresse Wesling CBE is the co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, the British company that has rescued decommissioned London fire hose from landfill since 2005 and turns it into lu

She Built the World’s Largest Food-Sharing App

Tessa Clarke is the co-founder and CEO of Olio, the number one food sharing app on earth. Olio connects people with their neighbors so spare food and household items get

She Grows Biodegradable Materials Inside Bacteria

Molly Morse is the CEO and co-founder of Mango Materials, a Bay Area company that turns methane into a biodegradable plastic alternative. Its material is grown by bacteri

Bringing Solar Power to 26 Million Homes Off the Grid

Patrick Walsh and Anish Thakkar are the co-founders of Sun King, the world's largest off-grid solar energy company. Over two decades they have brought solar power to more

He Flew to Space. Now He's Building a New Space Station

Dylan Taylor is the founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies, a space infrastructure company that went public in 2025. Voyager is building Starlab, a commercial successor

The Battery Built for Traffic Lights, Now Powering AI Data Centers.

ZincFive is the world's leading nickel-zinc battery company. Its batteries cannot be forced into fire, are over 90 percent recyclable through a smelter-free chemical proc

Renewable Energy That Saves India’s Factories 40% on Their Power Bill

Fourth Partner Energy finances, builds, and operates renewable energy for India’s factories. Clients save 30 to 40% on their power bills and pay nothing upfront to switch

Wimbledon Players Shower in Solar-Heated Water. Here's Who Built It.

Heat is responsible for 40% of global emissions and more than half of all energy consumed on the planet. Most of it still comes from burning fossil fuels, and almost nobo

She Studied Time Travel at MIT. Now She's Making Food from Air.

Lisa Dyson has a PhD from MIT in string theory. Her thesis covered rotating black holes, cosmology, and time travel. She is now the co-founder and CEO of Air Protein, a c

A Million Babies and What It Cost to Save Them

Jane Chen co-founded Embrace Global as a student project at Stanford in 2007. She moved to India at 25 and spent four years working 12-to-15-hour days to bring a portable

Concrete That Works With the Ocean, Not Against It

Seventy percent of marine infrastructure worldwide is concrete, and almost all of it is harming the ecosystems around it. Dr. Ido Sella has spent 14 years trying to chang

Detecting Cancer at Stage Zero from a Simple Urine Test

Most cancers are caught too late, and Ryuichi Onose has spent the last seven years trying to change that. His company, Craif, can detect 10 of the most common cancers fr