Danny in the Valley is your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech. This week, we have a guest who is actually working on climate, but from a very different angle. Devin Wright is the founder of a company called Lumo, the maker of a smart valve that Wright is selling to farmers out here in California where water is obviously a huge concern. We brought on Devin to talk about LUMO, how and why he started it, his life before getting into the fight against global warming.
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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