Sky Cycle Founder Tana Burke Featured on A New Angle Podcast

Sky Cycle founder Tana Burke sat down with Justin Angle on A New Angle podcast to talk about building Sky Cycle from an idea into hardware sitting in an airport terminal.

The conversation covers the real timeline behind the product: three and a half years of work, a shell that started as 26 pieces 3D printed at the Mansfield Library on the University of Montana campus, and the move to Diversified Plastics for manufacturing.

Tana also walks through the revenue model that gets airports to say yes, what came out of the pilot at Missoula International Airport, and the mindset shift that changed her strategy, realizing the airport, not the traveler, is the real decision maker.

She gets into the harder parts too: funding the early build with a loan from First Security Bank and a string of part time jobs, driving around Montana herself to meet engineers, and the gap between inventing something and actually commercializing it.

Listen to the full episode on A New Angle →