Entrepreneurship + Innovation
Bill Gross Launches Idealab.ai, a Free Platform of 1.2 Million AI-Generated Business Ideas
The Idealab founder applied his 31 idea-generation methods across 17 million sources, then made the results free to search.
Caroline Paules Is Manufacturing Affordable Cottages That Install in a Day
The mechanical engineer (BS ’19) spent eight years volunteering with unhoused neighbors before turning her mass-manufacturing training on the housing shortage.
Photonics Is the Future: A Founder Reflects on Computing’s Light-Powered Promise
Tanmay Gupta (BS ’24) on why computing with light could let satellites process data in orbit instead of beaming terabytes back to Earth.
The Caltech Engineer Who Made Half the World’s Drumsticks
How David Crocker (BS ’77) revolutionized drumstick manufacturing at Vic Firth.
How Caltech Analysts Power the Dodgers Dynasty
Alums Grace Peng and Ryan Casey leverage their computer science backgrounds to help the storied franchise make winning decisions
The Biotech Startup Reimagining Insulin from the Ground Up
How Alborz Mahdavi’s hard-fought innovation could help millions