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.
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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