I worked at Yelp. I ran the restaurant division. So of course you go from restaurant reviews to building agricultural hardware and software. That's super, super obvious leap. Our whole thesis was the little guy is getting beat up by the big guy. If you're a small shop, a restaurant, there's all this technology in 2012, 1314 that's being built,. social media networks, Twitter, all these platforms group on. But at the end of the day, you're a store, you need people to walk in the door. And actually, pretty much every day you have hundreds of people walk through your door.
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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