Challengers
Challengers - a Freethink Original Series presented by Fast Company. Across the globe, innovative entrepreneurs are racing to develop new businesses that could dramatically improve people's lives. But startups are hard work, and success is far from guaranteed. Join us as we profile the next generation of challenger companies and get an intimate view of where they are on their journey to transform an entire industry-to change the world.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Fast Company
- Documentary
Challengers - a Freethink Original Series presented by Fast Company. Across the globe, innovative entrepreneurs are racing to develop new businesses that could dramatically improve people's lives. But startups are hard work, and success is far from guaranteed. Join us as we profile the next generation of challenger companies and get an intimate view of where they are on their journey to transform an entire industry-to change the world.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Flexport - An App for Global Trade
Mon, Nov 28, 2016
Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, believes that nothing helps people improve their lives more than the ability to trade with one another. And, yet, even in the era of free trade, international shipping for businesses is still way too cumbersome. If Flexport succeeds, the chair you're sitting on, the phone you're holding, and the clothes you're wearing will all cost less.
Episode 2
Vicarious - Teaching Computers to Think Like Humans
Mon, Dec 5, 2016
Impossible. Crazy. Dangerous. Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he's building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day cure cancer, create new forms of energy, and solve virtually every problem that humans simply can't.
Episode 3
Transatomic - Powering the World with Nuclear
Mon, Dec 12, 2016
Transatomic is designing a nuclear reactor that can produce a lot more electricity than a conventional reactor, while creating a lot less nuclear waste. But they'll need to take on a deeply entrenched industry and convince a cautious public that they can safely harness the most powerful energy in the world.
Episode 4
AltSchool - What Will Schools Look Like in the Future?
Mon, Dec 19, 2016
Everyone wants America's education system to do better. Ex-Googler Max Ventilla has a radical idea for how to make schools work more like a social network. Ventilla's AltSchool is building a highly-personalized education experience that gets better and cheaper as more students use it. A decade from now, AltSchool may have built a new school system that ALL will be able to join.
Episode 5
8i - Virtual Reality Could Change Your Life
Mon, Dec 26, 2016
Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends...before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they'll alter the human experience forever.