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.
October 20, 2026
Bill Owens was Colorado’s governor from 1999 to 2007, and he is still the last Republican to hold the office. He grew up in Texas, one of five kids of a door-to-door salesman who reminded them that every morning, he was responsible for 21 meals. Bill came to Colorado by choice in his mid-twenties and never left.
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October 13, 2026
Jill Adler Grano is running for Boulder City Council, and she has spent years in the public record working out how Boulder got so expensive. Her answer starts in 1955, when the city adopted low-density postwar zoning. Today, 74.3% of Boulder's residential zoning is still low density.
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October 6, 2026
Jarvis Caldwell is the House Minority Leader in the Colorado House of Representatives, and he got there in his first term. He grew up in a trailer, went into the medical field the day after high school, then joined the Air Force and kept fighter jets flying out of Bagram.
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September 29, 2026
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.
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September 25, 2026
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.
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September 15, 2026
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.
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