Loonshots: Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries | Safi Bahcall

Summary: In Episode 81, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Safi Bahcall, a physicist, biotech entrepreneur, and the author of “Loonshots,” a book about how to nurture the types of crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries. Safi tells the stories of Vannevar Bush and the OSRD, Edwin Land’s Polavision, and the history of how Juan Trippe built Pan Am from a single seater transport plane flying supply runs from Key West to Havana, into the world’s premier international airline.