Business problems, technology answers, real-world stakes.
Through the Noise is an interview-led business show about companies trying to solve messy operational problems with new technology. Its strongest episodes translate energy, waste, batteries, AI, and space debris into plain questions about cost, scale, trust, and adoption.
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Through the Noise is a business interview show about organizations trying to make new technology useful in the real world. It is less interested in buzz than in adoption. A typical episode starts with a plain problem: solar vendors are overwhelming, commercial kitchens waste food, renewable energy is curtailed, or space is filling with fast-moving debris. Then the conversation follows the company trying to make that problem manageable. The show’s recent run leans heavily into sustainability and infrastructure. VECKTA explains onsite energy decisions for large enterprises. Plastic Bank frames ocean plastic as a social enterprise challenge with a real business model behind it. Acme Paper and Supply brings a family business history into questions about compostable and sustainable products. NanoGraf turns battery chemistry into a story about consumer batteries, medical devices, cars, grids, and performance demands. Winnow uses AI and computer vision to help commercial kitchens reduce food waste. Kayhan Space brings urgency to satellite traffic and orbital debris. Saluna Computing connects surplus renewable energy to flexible computing demand. The format is conversational and often explanatory. The host asks the kinds of questions a smart operator might ask when first encountering a technical market. Where does the customer start? What makes the buyer nervous? How does marketing work when enterprises are slow to change? What turns a promising idea into something repeatable, scalable, and defensible? That practical pressure is the show’s center of gravity. It gives founders and company leaders room to make their case while still keeping the listener oriented. The result is useful for people who want climate, energy, AI, space, and supply-chain ideas explained through business consequences rather than abstract trend language.
Made for: For founders, operators, consultants, and curious business listeners who want practical conversations about technology adoption. It especially suits people interested in sustainability, infrastructure, enterprise sales, and emerging markets.
What sets it apart: The show keeps technical subjects tied to operational pressure: cost, trust, marketing, deployment, and scale. It makes complex systems feel like business decisions someone actually has to make.
Through the Noise is a podcast that explores the hurdles, solutions, and the process of cultivating success for organizations, through conversations with CEOs, executive directors, entrepreneurs, authors, and consultants.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Through the Noise connects sustainability ideas to the operating models, sales problems, and infrastructure constraints that determine whether they can scale.
Ernesto Glucksmann starts with a practical business problem, then lets the guest trace the operating model behind a proposed solution. Through the Noise makes renewable-energy curtailment legible as a computing opportunity, follows the sales and trust problem behind onsite…
A sustainability pitch meets Ernesto Glucksmann's favorite follow-up: fine, but how does it actually work?
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A close look at how trust and education shape corporate energy transitions.
The episode opens on a familiar business headache: trying to sort solar panels and a battery pack in Washington, D.C., only to be overwhelmed by vendor options and ready to give up.
A co-founder story about turning ocean plastic into a business case.
Plastic Bank comes across as a business story first, with a company already working well even as its co-founder wanted to sell it and move on to a new venture focused on plastics in the ocean.
A clear, practical review of how enterprise energy transition can become more repeatable, trusted, and easier to begin.
Through the Noise turns a search for home solar panels into a grounded look at the business case facing companies that are trying to navigate the energy transition.
A clear, practical look at using curtailed renewable power for flexible computing.
Renewable energy's intermittency turns into a computing-market question in this PlayNext episode with John Belizer, CEO of Saluna Holdings. The conversation begins with curtailment: solar and wind sites can produce power the grid cannot take, leaving some of it unused.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Host Ernesto Glucksmann interviews David Jackson of Winnow Solutions about their AI-enabled camera system that helps commercial kitchens track and reduce food waste.
Host Ernesto introduces VECKTA, a platform helping large commercial and industrial businesses navigate the complex energy transition.
Host Ernesto Glucksmann interviews John Belizaire, CEO of Saluna Computing, about solving renewable energy curtailment.
Host Ernesto Glucksmann interviews Aras Faizi, CTO of Cajon Space, about the growing problem of space debris and their startup's technology to address it.
An interview with Dr.
Solar panels seem simple.
The host opens with a blunt question about selling a business that was already working in order to start over around ocean plastic.
Interview with Scott Atman of Acme Paper and Supply Co.