{"podcast":{"title":"Business for Good Podcast","slug":"business-for-good-podcast-641837","podcast_index_feed_id":641837,"rss_url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.businessforgoodpodcast.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/b/9/6/2b963ca360081ecfd959afa2a1bf1c87/B4G_Green.jpg","author":"Paul Shapiro","episode_count":201,"summary":"Join host Paul Shapiro as he talks with some of the leading start-up entrepreneurs and titans of industry alike using their businesses to help solve the world's most pressing problems. Whether it's climate change, unsustainable agricultural practices, cyber threats, coral reef die-offs, nuclear waste storage, plastic pollution, or more, many of the world's greatest challenges are also exciting business opportunities. On this show, we feature business leaders who are marrying profit and purpose by inventing solutions to both build a better world and offer investors a bang for their bucks.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T04:23:17.883096+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837"},"episode":{"title":"How a Biologist Built a Startup to Stop Billions of Bird Deaths with Dominique Waddoup","slug":"how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup","published_at":"2026-07-01T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837","url":"https://businessforgoodpodcast.libsyn.com/how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/businessforgoodpodcast/EP_193_BirdShades_-_Dominique_Waddoup.mp3?dest-id=761849","summary":"Every year, roughly a billion birds die from flying into glass windows and buildings. The problem is massive, well-documented, and largely invisible to the public. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro talks with Dominique Waddoup, CEO and Founder of BirdShades, about how she went from studying giant honeybee behavior in Nepal to building a company that makes glass visible to birds without changing the way it looks to humans. Dominique explains how Bird Shades developed a retrofit window film that uses UV-reflective patterns birds can see but people cannot. The product applies to existing glass on homes and commercial buildings, eliminating the need to replace windows entirely. The conversation covers why birds collide with glass in the first place, how bird vision differs from human vision, and why the company is now pursuing licensing models to embed its technology in other window-film products. Paul and Dominique also explore why bird-window collisions remain an underrecognized conservation issue despite killing far more birds than hunting, how emerging building ordinances in the US, Canada, and Europe are beginning to create regulatory demand, and what it took for a scientist with no business background to build a hardware startup from scratch. Things You Will Learn: Why bird-window collisions kill roughly a billion birds per year, far exceeding losses from hunting. How Bird Shades created a window film that is transparent to humans but highly visible to birds using UV-reflective patterns. Why retrofit solutions for existing buildings could have a greater near-term impact than bird-safe glass in new construction. How building ordinances in cities like New York and Washington, DC, are creating regulatory demand for bird-safe products. What it took for a…","meta_description":"Every year, roughly a billion birds die from flying into glass windows and buildings. The problem is massive, well-documented, and largely invisible to th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2230,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-for-good-podcast-641837/episodes/how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-for-good-podcast-641837/how-a-biologist-built-a-startup-to-stop-billions-of-bird-deaths-with-dominique-waddoup.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}