I was just focused on delivering the product, focused on being an engineer, doing my job and doing it well. And knowing that if you engineer a great product that can meet what your customer wants, you will succeed tremendously. That's the same ethos that I have over here, right? Like we're not focused on anything but delivering a product, delivering it well, and being the North American champion for the battery supply chain.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Vivas Kumar, founder of Mitra Chem, to talk about batteries (4:00), starting out at Tesla (8:10), launching his company (9:50), the race for battery resources (12:40), iron and China (14:00), meeting Chamath Palihapitya (18:10), going from India to Singapore to Texas to California (21:40), the Tesla roller coaster (26:30), making cathode powder (34:15), and the million-mile battery (39:30).
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