LUMO has created a smart valve to help growers conserve their water. Drip irrigation is the fastest growing way to irrigate crops in California, but it's also very expensive and can be chewed by animals or run over by tractors. The new valves are able to detect how much water is coming through one of these lines so that they don't have to turn them on all the time.
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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