<![CDATA[The Adoption Gap]]>The Adoption Gap explores why valuable ideas, technologies, and business solutions succeed or fail to gain traction—and what leaders on both sides of the decision can do to turn potential value into measurable results.

Innovation does not create value when it is invented, sold, or installed. It creates value when people adopt it and produce a better result. This Podcast focuses on the people, the processes, and the results of this go-to-market journey.

]]>https://adoption-gap.com/Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:40:04 GMTTue, 18 Aug 2026 13:50:23 GMT60Chris Fraughton<p>The Adoption Gap explores why valuable ideas, technologies, and business solutions succeed or fail to gain traction—and what leaders on both sides of the decision can do to turn potential value into measurable results.<br /><br />Innovation does not create value when it is invented, sold, or installed. It creates value when people adopt it and produce a better result. This Podcast focuses on the people, the processes, and the results of this go-to-market journey. </p>episodicChris Fraughtonchris@adoption-gap.comno<![CDATA[How an Origami Solar Light Got Her in a Room with Bill Clinton]]>Alice Chun went from teaching architecture at Columbia to founding Solight Design after her son’s asthma diagnosis pushed her research toward clean solar technology. Her origami-inspired Solar Puff folds flat and pops open into a solar lantern, a safer alternative to toxic kerosene for the 1.6 billion people without electricity. Alice shares how her lights reached Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and Ukraine, and how that work led to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s Gutsy and support from Bob Iger. We also dig into the business: losing B2B revenue when USAID was dismantled, negotiating big-box distribution margins, and why she thinks of her product as “individualized infrastructure.”

]]>ed86bd6a-3123-4454-aef7-7c2a262ee911Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:30:00 GMT<p>Alice Chun went from teaching architecture at Columbia to founding Solight Design after her son’s asthma diagnosis pushed her research toward clean solar technology. Her origami-inspired Solar Puff folds flat and pops open into a solar lantern, a safer alternative to toxic kerosene for the 1.6 billion people without electricity. Alice shares how her lights reached Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and Ukraine, and how that work led to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s <i><em>Gutsy</em></i> and support from Bob Iger. We also dig into the business: losing B2B revenue when USAID was dismantled, negotiating big-box distribution margins, and why she thinks of her product as “individualized infrastructure.”</p>no00:42:3612How an Origami Solar Light Got Her in a Room with Bill Clintonfull<![CDATA[NearStar Fusion's Model T Strategy: Rail Guns, Cancer Cure, and the Path to Practical Fusion (Ep. 1)]]>Chris Faranetta, co-founder of NearStar Fusion, joins the show to explain how his team skipped lasers and magnets altogether and built what is essentially a rail gun for fusion — firing a projectile down a barrel at 10 kilometers a second until it slams into a target and ignites a mini thermal nuclear explosion inside a chamber the size of a soda can.

We get into why NearStar isn't racing to be first in fusion, but first to be practical — the "Model T" strategy, not the moonshot. The part that surprised me most: the fastest path to revenue isn't power generation at all — it's medical isotopes. The same neutrons this machine produces can fuel a cancer treatment with a track record of curing stage four prostate cancer, years before the first kilowatt of fusion electricity ever sells.

We also cover the $10+ billion already poured into private fusion, why a floating power plant on a cargo ship might beat anything built on land, and what it actually takes to convince a venture investor that a mini nuclear explosion is a business, not just a physics experiment.

If you've ever wondered whether fusion is real — or you're in the camp that thinks it's 30 years away and always will be — this conversation might change your mind.

]]>265db69d-30bf-467b-b225-f3c797ac2b2fThu, 24 Sep 2026 18:38:44 GMT<p>Chris Faranetta, co-founder of NearStar Fusion, joins the show to explain how his team skipped lasers and magnets altogether and built what is essentially a rail gun for fusion — firing a projectile down a barrel at 10 kilometers a second until it slams into a target and ignites a mini thermal nuclear explosion inside a chamber the size of a soda can.</p><p>We get into why NearStar isn't racing to be first in fusion, but first to be <i><em>practical</em></i> — the "Model T" strategy, not the moonshot. The part that surprised me most: the fastest path to revenue isn't power generation at all — it's medical isotopes. The same neutrons this machine produces can fuel a cancer treatment with a track record of curing stage four prostate cancer, years before the first kilowatt of fusion electricity ever sells.</p><p>We also cover the $10+ billion already poured into private fusion, why a floating power plant on a cargo ship might beat anything built on land, and what it actually takes to convince a venture investor that a mini nuclear explosion is a business, not just a physics experiment.</p><p>If you've ever wondered whether fusion is real — or you're in the camp that thinks it's 30 years away and always will be — this conversation might change your mind.</p>no00:42:14NearStar Fusion's Model T Strategy: Rail Guns, Cancer Cure, and the Path to Practical Fusion (Ep. 1)full