The Colorado River is being rationed for the first time since the Hoover Dam was built. I'd love to get a sense of kind of what the temperature is when you're talking out to growers and whose life blood this is, again, in this new kind of water scarce world. And farmers are really thin margin businesses where you don't have a lot of control over the inputs that are going to mean a good year or a terrible year. It would just be pressure to just think big and to just ask for something big," he says.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Devon Wright to talk about moving from a boat to the country (4:00), starting agricultural and water tech startup Lumo (7:15), inventing a smart valve (11:40), quitting his old job (15:50), his previous companies (17:50), being in a band (20:30), coming to Silicon Valley (25:20), how farmers view drought and extreme weather (28:00), making water systems more efficient (36:40), pitching investors (40:00), and his worst day (41:30).
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