Entrepreneurs for Impact #209: Arun Gupta, CEO of Skyven Technologies — $300M+ for Zero CapEx Industrial Decarbonization. 20% of Global GHG Emissions. Water Refrigerants. Screaming at the Top of Your Lungs for Founder Sanity.
Skyven is an industrial decarbonization company that designs, funds, installs, and maintains a unique steam-generating heat pump with zero downtime and no CapEx cost to customers. They have hundreds of millions of dollars of financing available.
As the founder and CEO, Arun is a mission-driven PhD engineer-turned-entrepreneur with prior roles at Texas Instruments and Metronics.
In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways.
- Why they're well positioned to serve the trillion-dollar global industry process heat market
- How they price steam contracts with customers in chemicals, pulp and paper, food and beverage, ethanol, textiles, and metals
- Why building for the end goal today is a bad idea, and what you should do instead
- How screaming at the top of your lungs while cycling can help manage the roller coaster of entrepreneurship
🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:
Skyven - https://skyven.co
Arun - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arung12
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