Summary: Barefoot Innovation has been in hiatus in recent weeks because my father passed away. He was 95 years old. His name was Glidden Sweet Doman. And he was a remarkable innovator. He’s being widely remembered as the last of the great helicopter pioneers and he was also an important inventor in wind energy. Those two industries share the same technology – the wickedly complex science of rotor dynamics. I kept noticing parallels with the themes we discuss on Barefoot Innovation. It occurred to me that it would be fun to do a show inviting insights from someone who, nearly a century ago, began innovating in a field that’s very different from finance, but that was being similarly transformed by new, fast-changing technology.
