From Scratch with Jessica Harris
211 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsA Show about the Entrepreneurial Life
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Martin Eberhard
December 12, 2006 04:02As Americans try to decrease their dependency on oil, companies are working to develop alternative fuels that power cleaner, more efficient cars. Jessica’s guest is Martin Eberhard, one such inventor who founded Tesla Motors, an electric car company that emphasizes good design and high performance. His first product, the Tesla Roadster, is a sportscar that […]
David Giuliani
December 12, 2006 04:00Jessica speaks with David Giuliani, the inventor of the Sonicare Toothbrush, which uses sonic technology to clean teeth. Sonicare was sold to Phillips, and David is working on his next invention, the Clarisonic, a dermatological brush for the face.
Amy Sacco
December 05, 2006 21:40If one wants to know where the entertainment and fashion elite goes to party when everyone else has gone to bed, one has to look no further than Amy Sacco’s night clubs in new York City. While most clubs are trendy for a moment, Amy’s clubs, Lot 61 and Bungalow 8, have been going strong […]
Craig Newmark
November 21, 2006 04:01Jessica speaks with Craig Newmark, the founder of craigslist, a popular on-line bulletin board that Craig started as a hobby in the mid 1990s. The site has grown from a total of 12 users to over ten million visitors per month, and provides information for over 200 cities world wide. While sites similar to craigslist […]
Garth Fagan
November 05, 2006 04:01Jessica speaks with Garth Fagan, the founder and Artistic Director of Garth Fagan Dance. Garth was an athlete in Jamaica before turning his life to dance, and in addition to building a dance company, he’s gone so far as to create his own innovative dance technique, which combines the discipline of ballet with the energy […]
Emmanuel Stern
October 21, 2006 21:41Jessica speaks with Emmanuel Stern, the founder of the popular, fashion forward boutique hotel, the Soho Grand. The Soho Grand was the first hotel to be built in Soho, in New York City, since the late 1800s.
Julie Clark
October 21, 2006 04:01People say that necessity is the mother of invention, but more and more, actual mothers are becoming the mother of invention. One such mother was frustrated with the lack of videos for her newborn daughter, and she decided to produce an educational video involving classical music and historic painters. Her video, called “Baby Einstein,” quickly […]
Gary Hirshberg
September 28, 2006 22:01Jessica interviews Gary Hirshberg, the co-founder of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt. Gary tells us about his life at Stonyfield Farm in the early days, and how he built a successful-and delicious- yogurt company, From Scratch.
Scott Griffith
September 28, 2006 22:00Jessica speaks with Scott, the CEO of ZipCar. The company enables people in urban areas, such as San Francisco, Washington DC, Toronto and New York, to use cars by the hour. The concept, known as car sharing, is becoming more popular in the United States, and Zipcar is one of the pioneers behind this movement.
Christine Whitman
September 28, 2006 04:02When one thinks of an entrepreneur, the person that usually comes to mind is someone who founds a company, but one doesn’t necessarily have to start a company to be an entrepreneur. Jessica’s guest, Christine Whitman, is an unconvenetional entrepreneur who bought a distressed company and turned it around. She is the former CEO and […]
Austin Ligon
September 28, 2006 04:01Jessica speaks with Austin Ligon, the co-founder of the nation’s most popular used car superstore. Austin started Carmax with the electronics giant Circuit City, who was looking for a new business opportunity in the mid 1990s. When one thinks of the used car industry, the words “corruption,” and “seedy car salesman” come to mind; but […]