Some conversations are too good for a boardroom and too important for small talk. The Bear Roars gives them a stage.
Dan Caruso — three-time decacorn entrepreneur, venture investor, and author of Bandwidth, and co-founder of the Boulder Roots Music Fest — sits down with the founders, scientists, artists, and operators building Colorado’s future and beyond. From quantum breakthroughs and supersonic flight to the stories behind Boulder’s best restaurants, the podcast lives at the intersection of innovation and community. Every episode celebrates builders, inspires listeners, and lights up the conversations that matter.
Cory Finney is Managing Partner of Howdy Partners, the rural Colorado venture fund formerly known as Greater Colorado Venture Fund. He and Dan are both investors in Agile Space Industries, which builds spacecraft thrusters in Durango.
Recorded live in front of an audience at Tulagi Music Festival, Dan sits down with David Linde, the CEO of the Sundance Institute, in one of the first interviews he's given since taking the job.
Trey Foskett is the co-founder and CEO of Watchmaker Genomics in Boulder. Sequencing the first human genome took ten years and $3 billion. Twenty-five years later, that cost has fallen roughly 100,000-fold: a drop that outpaced Moore's Law, and one most people outside the field never noticed.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has five months left in office, and Dan didn't want a retrospective. Polis leads with the win he's proudest of: Colorado went from 27th in the country for preschool enrollment to 3rd, and #1 in the nation for education — funded by a ballot measure that passed with more than two-thirds of t…
Aquiles La Grave is back on The Bear Roars, this time live in front of an audience at Tulagi Music Festival, three weeks into his campaign for mayor of Boulder. In July, U.S. News named Colorado the best state in the country for education.
In this episode of The Bear Roars, Dan sits down with Ed Hallen — co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Klaviyo, the company he and Andrew Bialecki started in 2012 and took public in 2023.