Mitra Kim was born in a small town in India. He grew up in Singapore, and then his folks worked in the oil and gas industry. His father is the person who named Mitra Kim, our company name. "I still very much have strong affinity for the greater huge scenario from the time that I spent over 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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