Otherlab Founder Saul Griffith

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In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Saul Griffith, the founder and chief scientist at Otherlab.

Otherlab is an R&D incubator and accelerator that helps pair startups in robotics and renewable energy with government labs and corporate investors. It has partnered with NASA, the Navy, the Department of Energy, Google, Facebook, GE and Ford to help build and fund projects in energy, automation, and robotics in service of 100% decarbonization.

Saul has a PhD in materials science and information theory. He’s co-founded over a dozen companies.

This conversation was recorded in February, 2020 in front of a live audience at Powerhouse’s headquarters in Oakland, CA. It was our last in-person recording before the pandemic.

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