The Inventors

The engineers who built what everyone else just uses

The engineers whose patents became trillion-dollar industries — and whose names you've probably never heard.

Series 1 · 11 Episodes · Audience: CTOs, senior engineers, patent strategists, tech-curious founders

Episodes

• Ep. 1: Wayne Westerman — The man who taught glass to feel (22 min read)
• Ep. 2: JB Straubel — The battery architect who made electric cars inevitable (20 min read)
• Ep. 3: Federico Faggin — The physicist who signed his name in silicon (25 min read)
• Ep. 4: Matei Zaharia — The PhD student who made big data small enough to use (24 min read)
• Ep. 5: The Palantir Builders — Four engineers who taught machines to see connections (28 min read)
• Ep. 6: Sophie Wilson — The instruction set that powers six billion devices (22 min read)
• Ep. 7: Jonathan Herman — The orbital mechanic who wired the earth (15 min read)
• Ep. 8: Dimitris Lyras — The shipowner who built software for the oldest industry on earth (16 min read)
• Ep. 9: Karlheinz Brandenburg — The engineer who compressed a revolution into three letters (22 min read)
• Ep. 10: Michael Armbrust — The student who applied four times and built the data lakehouse (18 min read)
• Ep. 11: What the Inventors Share — Ten portraits, one pattern — and a note from the author (17 min read)