On this week’s Found podcast, we sat down with Dandelion co-founder and President Kathy Hannun. Kathy got here up with the concept for Dandelion whereas working at Google X, tackling among the world’s most intractable issues, and making them tractable via the appliance of know-how. Kathy realized that harnessing geothermal power was a solution to make a completely new class of sustainable power accessible at scale to markets the place it makes probably the most sense over different inexperienced power choices.
Kathy instructed us all about how she ended up along with her dream job at X, after which determined to make the leap from that to constructing her personal firm from the bottom as much as handle an answer she noticed an apparent want for. She additionally explains how regardless of coping with some pure imposter syndrome discovering herself at Google’s moonshot division fixing issues with among the smartest individuals on this planet, but additionally how her pure inclination is to consider that she will resolve any problem she’s confronted via, via a mix of dedication and studying.
We additionally heard from Kathy about making the tough choice to vary a elementary aspect of how Dandelion’s enterprise works, pretty late within the sport, after realizing that the prevailing technique wasn’t working. Her robust name actually got here whereas she was scaling a mountain — it’s onerous to get extra allegorical than that.
We hope you get pleasure from our full chat with Kathy, which you may get beneath, or by subscribing to Found in Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Google Podcasts or in your podcast app of selection. Please depart us a evaluate and tell us what you assume, and ship us suggestions both on Twitter or by way of e-mail. Tune in subsequent week for one more nice dialog with a founder all about their distinctive expertise creating one thing new.
