At the Intersection of Extreme Creativity and Entrepreneurship
E veryone has had the dream of inventing something. David Wiener made that dream his reality when he was just a kid, and for the past forty years, he has designed, engineered, manufactured, and sold a vast array of products and worked with global brands including Ferrari, Porsche, Ben & Jerry’s, Nike and the US Ski Team. This is David’s story: a wild roller coaster of ups and downs, as inspirational as it is hysterical.
David’s determination to achieve was so powerful it often overruled risk, whether working underwater or under cars, high atop ladders hanging his commercial speakers, or bolting himself onto speeding cars to test ski aerodynamics, but these were just physical dangers. The real dangers were the mental challenges of exhausting stress while constantly creating innovations and being responsible to employees and then a wife and growing family.
Writer’s bio
D avid Wiener grew up tinkering, inventing and building all manner of ‘things,’ from a gas-powered go-kart at 12 to a hydroplane at 14 to a world speed record vehicle at 20. As a student, David majored in art and engineering, studied aerodynamics and was the subject of a PBS documentary. After school, David worked for Engineer of the Century, Paul MacCready, before launching his own company, W2 Design in 1982, later to be known as David Wiener Ventures, in Westport, Connecticut. Now located in Park City, Utah, David’s work has involved everything from cars and bikes to aircraft, high fashion, furniture and furnishings, electronics, audio, music products, and more recently, apps, encryption and petroleum cleansing systems.
