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Out of the Crisis

Eric Ries

Out of the Crisis, a podcast hosted by myself, Eric Ries, highlights leaders from all sectors who are providing and coordinating relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. No one is more h...

Episodes

20 of 29 episodes

Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, Covid vaccinations, and working as a unified society to problem solve

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy, his online education company. He spent a few years working...

01:04:45May 24, 2021

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, wen...

01:11:55May 3, 2021

Noah Smith and Brad DeLong: the cost of the crisis

We are now seeing how damaging our weak response to the pandemic was in the US. Both on human lives and on the economy. But, how much would...

01:01:19Aug 31, 2020

Zeynep Tufekci (part two): How we get out of this mess and predictions for the future

After Part One, you should have a sense of Zeynep. If you haven't listened, it is worth going back and hearing her impressive background and...

01:12:53Aug 24, 2020

Zeynep Tufekci (part one): from Turkey to Technosociology

Zeynep Tufekci may be the most important account on Twitter. The reason being she has a habit of being early on the defining trends shaping...

01:10:05Aug 17, 2020

Ron Klain: The Ebola Czar on COVID

Ron Klain may know more about government pandemic response than anyone in the US. This is because in 2014 Ron lead the response to the Ebola...

01:11:27Aug 10, 2020

Tomas Pueyo: The Hammer and the Dance

In these conversation, I have spoken with many every day people who managed to have a large impact in this crisis. Tomas Pueyo is, perhaps,...

01:20:39Jul 27, 2020

Bitwise: Retraining and reemploying American workers

There are two types of unemployment we are seeing right now. Unemployed caused by pandemic, and unemployment caused by the lockdown caused b...

01:17:37Jul 20, 2020

Revolution Foods: Rethinking the Food Supply Chain

Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey had no idea that they were building a nationwide phenomenon when in 2006, they founded Revolu...

01:03:47Jul 13, 2020

Sal Khan: The Classroom of the Future

Sal Khan may be the most famous educator in the world. His organization, Khan Academy, was helping millions of students around the world sup...

00:56:14Jul 6, 2020

Max Henderson: CovidActNow, a Necessary Counterweight

Remember how fast shelter-in-place went from seeming impossible to becoming a reality? Remember how policy makers all of a sudden appeared t...

00:58:07Jun 29, 2020

Dr. Robert Schooley: Why weren't we ready?

Why weren't we ready? There are so many conflicting theories surrounding this idea that it seems hard to answer. But it is not a black box,...

01:14:32Jun 25, 2020

SF New Deal: A model for the future

Lenore Estrada, like many of us, was set up for a good year heading into 2020. She had just broken ground on a new site for her bakery, Thre...

00:57:28Jun 22, 2020

Robert Rhinehart: Building the tools for research

Robert Rhinehart is most known for Soylent, a company and product he founded in the search for nutrition supported by science. But, Robert h...

01:07:40Jun 18, 2020

Alpha Lee: An Open Source COVID Moonshot

After seeing the impact of the SARS pandemic as a child in Hong Kong, Alpha Lee dedicated his life to science. Studying mathematics and biol...

00:56:22Jun 15, 2020

OOTC Special: Roy Bahat: a reflection on Tech's Response to COVID-19

This year, I sat down with Roy Bahat at CogX, a large global technology conference, that this year was completely virtual. Roy and I used th...

00:41:46Jun 15, 2020

Curative: Testing Thousands for COVID-19

Fred Turner is a scientist and biotech CEO who, like so many during this crisis, felt an obligation to act when the pandemic hit. In a matte...

00:53:40Jun 12, 2020

Jeremy Howard: The Data Behind Masks4All

Jeremy Howard is not a lobbyist, politician or a doctor. He is a data scientist. And yet, he is one of the main reasons that governments acr...

01:24:59Jun 8, 2020

Hannu Rajaniemi: Creating a Vaccine Manhattan Project

Hannu Rajaniemi is most know for his work as a science fiction author. However, recently, he has taken his talent for seeing the bigger pict...

01:27:26May 28, 2020

Frontline Foods: fueling the fight against COVID-19

Sydney, Frank, and Ryan have been friends for a long time. So when the crisis hit and Sydney was thrown into the frontlines as a pediatric n...

01:24:30May 25, 2020