"You have to push everything. And you know the feeling because it's exhausting," he says. "It really feels like you're pushing something like up a hill." The band with his bandmate and I were the founders and the band, so we kind of had to like break up. It was actually pretty hard on us, actually.
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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