Danny Cevallos: Brian Chesky at Airbnb was like, well, you can now work anywhere. And he said, and you don't take a pay cut. He says it's an interesting moment when you start looking at these big companies being like, we do not care where you work. "What I enjoy about being in Silicon Valley is in physics, there's a concept called Brownian motion"
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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