Podcasts Technology Silicon Subcontinent Episode 3 - Angad Daryani on Bootstrapping a Climate Tech Startup

Episode 3 - Angad Daryani on Bootstrapping a Climate Tech Startup

Published: March 22, 2021, 5:22 a.m.

Angad Daryani is an entrepreneur building one of India's hottest climate tech startups — Praan. After building 3D printers from scratch and working with Ramesh Raskar of MIT Media Lab, Angad studied Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he built a filterless purification device and soon became popular on his college campus. This device would eventually lead to Praan.

Today, when he's not solving fluid dynamics problems or raising VC money, you can find him translating innovative solutions from a Western context to an Indian one. We chat about his life, his interests, and what it takes to solve one of the most important problems we face not just as a nation, but as a species -- Climate Change.

If you're interested in solving Climate Change, go to https://www.praan.io/jobs or https://www.praan.io/connect 

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro to Angad and Praan

5:14 Angad on the impact of a 1.5C rise in temperatures

13:30 Angad on carbon capture versus re electrification of the grid

20:20 Early life, Mentors, and Problem Solving

40:29 Mental Models at Praan

54:20 Engineering Challenges at Praan


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