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Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen

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Oct 21, 2026

Dan SullivanHOST
6:23
So the thing that
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
6:25
was interesting is Segway started With, you know, Dean Kamen, he's the guy that created portable dialysis machines, portable insulin pumps, made a fortune licensing medical equipment that he created.
Jeffrey MadoffHOST
6:39
I mean, brilliant man.
Dan SullivanHOST
6:41
Yep.
speaker_16NARRATOR
12:28
There are big plans for the Manchester mill yard.
speaker_16NARRATOR
12:31
Just ask Dean Kamen and his company, Army.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
12:34
We will be soon manufacturing cells, tissues, and organs to change the quality of life for people that need it.
speaker_16NARRATOR
12:41
The biofabrication industry could bring 7,000 direct jobs to the area and another 37,000 indirect jobs.
Sean ThompsonHOST
14:28
Nobody's ever asked about it.
Sean ThompsonHOST
14:30
It's almost like his name was Tom Pritzker.
speaker_21CORRESPONDENT
14:33
We are at New Hampshire inventor Dean Kamen's Manchester office, and we came to speak with him.
speaker_21CORRESPONDENT
14:38
He was unavailable, which is really unfortunate because we wanted to talk to him about these documents.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
8:09
Some of the most brilliant people in the world thought it was something that was going to change our world, the Segway.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
8:16
The cautionary one is a cl-- it's really close to perfect, as Dean Kamen, who was the founder of Segway, genuinely could see it.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
8:26
He knew exactly what he had built, and the hype was extraordinary around it.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
8:32
Cities could be redesigned around it, bigger than the PC, and the most anticipated product launch of its era.

26 MINS LATER

Bryan SmeltzerHOST
34:41
So what I would like to, this is my kind of final thoughts here, and here's what I'd like you to take from chronicle number four.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
34:47
We've, we've covered a lot on communication and effective communication and what really works and what doesn't work.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
34:53
Dean, Dean Kamen from Segway could see the product perfectly, what it could solve and how it could change people's transportation mode, how they're gonna get from point A to point B in a new way.
Bryan SmeltzerHOST
35:08
He had the vision, the capability, the capital, and the belief.
speaker_15NARRATOR
77:16
though they claimed long after that they had no knowledge of Nadia's ties to Epstein and her shady past.
speaker_15NARRATOR
77:22
Now, DECA is a company founded by Dean Kamen, who created the Segway.
speaker_15NARRATOR
77:27
They mainly focus on research and advancements in technology.
speaker_15NARRATOR
77:31
Kamen has also been known to be pretty good friends with Epstein over the years.
KyleHOST
2:33
Um, that's been pretty helpful.
KyleHOST
2:35
Dean, what was your first, uh, terrifying moment?
Dean DuffingGUEST
2:40
Hmm.
Dean DuffingGUEST
2:41
I'll be honest with you.
Dean DuffingGUEST
4:55
It doesn't mean that you think it's the greatest thing in the world and you're all in and that you shouldn't be vigilant.
Dean DuffingGUEST
5:01
It just means that maybe your fear might be a little bit over the top.
Peter LawrenceHOST
5:07
I think your skydiving thing is survivorship bias, Dean, that only the people that survive skydiving are really into it.
Dean DuffingGUEST
5:13
There is some.
Dave ChangHOST
11:10
Right.
Dave ChangHOST
11:11
What was his name? Dean Kamen.
Dave ChangHOST
11:13
Dean Kamen, that was it.
Dave ChangHOST
11:15
And I don't remember why, but I was reading this and then it was getting a lot of traction.
Dave ChangHOST
11:19
There were like two things that were happening in the mid to late 90s.
Dave ChangHOST
15:12
100%.
Dave ChangHOST
15:12
So this is what I've thought about, and you can laugh all you want.
Dave ChangHOST
15:16
Dean Kamen.
Diane SawyerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:20
And at last, we're going to see not only if this works, but can Charlie and I return with our team? I mean, this is really cool.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:32
Dean, you should do, just you should do the little, now Dean is standing on this thing.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:35
We're all standing on it.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:36
Dean, you should do the little dance that you just did.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:37
I mean, to show how mobile this is.
Dean KamenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:39
As you can see, it's very, very versatile.
Diane SawyerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:20
And at last, we're going to see not only if this works, but can Charlie and I return with our team? I mean, this is really cool.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:32
Dean, you should do, just you should do the little, now Dean is standing on this thing.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:35
We're all standing on it.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:36
Dean, you should do the little dance that you just did.
Charlie GibsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:37
I mean, to show how mobile this is.
Dean KamenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:39
As you can see, it's very, very versatile.
Michael GrahamHOST
24:19
I'm interested that you haven't talked at all about her unique resume when it comes to the government.
Michael GrahamHOST
24:25
In other words, she worked for Dean Kamen.
Michael GrahamHOST
24:28
He had a lot of government contracts.
Michael GrahamHOST
24:30
She got this great job that no one can tell us what she did in that job.
Anthony DiLorenzoGUEST
25:29
I've been told this.
Anthony DiLorenzoGUEST
25:30
So she's got the nerve to attack me for working for 54 years and achieving the American dream where I don't think she's ever received a job that wasn't because of her mother's influence.
Anthony DiLorenzoGUEST
25:42
My understanding, and I think there was an NPR article about this, is that her mom got Dean Kamen's company hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and then hired her, then Dean hired her for some position that she was unqualified for, but it really didn't matter.
Anthony DiLorenzoGUEST
26:02
And listen, I would hire her too if somebody gave me 400 million bucks or

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