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Mitra Chem's Vivas Kumar: "Building a US battery champion"

The Times Tech Podcast

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How to Start a Battery Company?

Danny Cevallos: I wanted to solve the problem of bringing more iron based cathode capacity to North America. And that's when I met Chamath Pali-Happatia who ended up leading our investment round. He said, these problems that you want to solve, you really should start a company and I'll help you do it. So that set of conversations happened in early 2021. Oh, wow. And we were off the races from there.

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