Join physicist, entrepreneur, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Safi Bahcall for a conversation about nurturing crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries. Safi outlines the five laws of Loonshots, including Mind the False Fail, Listen to the Suck with Curiosity, and Create an Innovativ

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In general, I do not read “business books” as I find them simplistic. Loonshots is the exception to that rule. It blew me away. It mixes compelling personal narratives of entrepreneurs like Edwin Land (Polaroid) and Juan Trippe (Pan Am) with observations from physics and history to weave a very compelling narrative.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews physicist and biotech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall, author of 2019's "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases and Transform Industries." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Safi Bahcall is a physicist and an award-winning entrepreneur. His insights into business success look at the factors that motivate behavior in organizations—and those motivations are not what you’ll learn in business school. Today Safi joins the show to share these insights and more from his book, Loonshots: How to Nu

Have you created a Loonshot? Have people dismissed or laughed at your Loonshot? Safi Bahcall takes us through how to manage Loonshots—a big goal, an audacious idea which has a lot of enthusiasm and support, but may be viewed as crazy. What if you nurtured these crazy ideas that are dismissed and written off. Loonshots