Serial Founder + Former SpaceX Team to Revolutionize Engineered Wood — Josh Dorfman, CEO of Plantd

Led by Josh Dorfman, Plantd turns atmospheric carbon into low-prices, high-performance building materials using industrial hemp, an ultra-strong, fast-growing plant that captures over 3x more carbon than trees.

Below are two excerpts from the podcast.

"Most home builders are using a product called oriented strand board (OSB). We decided to build these, too, but to make them out of hemp. We think there are opportunities to make a better product, but it still looks and performs like the OSB builders use today. We're not going to ask builders to adopt an alternative building technique. We just want to slide into construction as it works today and to make it easy for people."

"I met Huade Tan, who is our co-founder and CTO, back in February. He spent six years at SpaceX before moving to the Research Triangle Park to start a new company. In parallel, I had been feeling frustrated with engineered wood, seeing the price go up while the quality declined, and I felt there had to be a better alternative. When I met Huade, we were supposed to talk about manufacturing. But I put this idea out there, and he thought it was interesting. His team at SpaceX had also been thinking about alternative biomass and within 20 minutes, we decided to go for it."

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