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Headstorm: https://headstorm.com/AGPILOT: https://headstorm.com/agpilot/Arable: https://www.arable.com/FoA 256: Agtech Collaboration and Data-Driven Decision Agriculture with Jim Ethington of ArableToday's episode features Arable CEO Jim Ethington. Jim first appeared on this show on episode 256 back in 2021 and I was pleased to get a chance to sit down for a second interview with him in person at World AgriTech in March. His background is impressive. Prior to joining Arable in 2018, he spent 10 years at The Climate Corporation where he was VP of Product and grew the company to 50 million paid acres and built a team from 10 to over 600 individuals. So he started at Climate in 2008 when they were still called Weatherbill and stayed with the company through the big acquisition in 2013 and for years after that. So Jim has been thinking about the challenges and opportunities in digital agriculture for a long long time and it shows in the insights he shares in this episode. If you're not familiar with Arable, they are an ag technology company that provides data insights and recommendations to help farms be more productive and sustainable. Specifically they have created an intuitive system for farmers and agronomists to optimize irrigation, fertilizer applications and other important farm decisions. This is all based around their Arable Mark 3 device. Jim is also one of the guests suggested by Lawrence King at Headstorm to give one of their client testimonials. Similar to Amie at Wilbur Ellis and Claudia at Microsoft, I wanted to make this one a full length episode because Jim is someone I wanted to have back on the show anyway to get an update on Arable and more of his insights on the future of ag. And he doesn't disappoint. I'll drop you into the conversation where he's explaining the key insight from farmers that informs the work they do at Arable.

Dave Friedberg is CEO, Chairman, and co-founder of Ohalo Genetics ( https://ohalo.com ), which is accelerating evolution to unlock nature's potential. Dave excels at developing and deploying agricultural technologies that boost farmer productivity while reducing humanity's land, water, and energy footprint. Dave is also CEO and founder of The Production Board (TPB), a venture foundry that builds and invests in technology businesses in food, agriculture, and life sciences. He helps set strategy, define TPB's investment theses, and manage key TPB investments.‍ He is also a director on the boards of Lavoro (Latin America's largest ag inputs retailer) and Pattern Ag (the leading predictive agronomy company focused on soil biology). Prior to TPB, Dave was founder and CEO of The Climate Corporation, the world's leading digital agronomy software platform, used by farmers across 200+ million acres worldwide. Monsanto acquired The Climate Corporation in 2013, when he joined Monsanto (now Bayer) as a member of the executive leadership team. — This episode is presented by Pinion. Learn more HERE. — Links Ohalo Genetics - https://ohalo.com All in Podcast - https://www.allinpodcast.co Dave on X - https://twitter.com/friedberg The Climate Corporation Episode - https://themodernacre.com/302 Join the Co-op - https://themodernacre.supercast.com

Episode 38 is with Dai Ellis (Co-founder and CEO) and Vilas Rao (Co-founder) of Cascade Climate.Today Na'im speaks with Dai Ellis and Vilas Rao about how Cascade Climate is working to address key challenges in open-system carbon dioxide removal (CDR), particularly around quantification of enhanced rock weathering (ERW), why a community-built quantification standard is key to increase consistency in MRV practices across the ERW market, and how to encourage industry adoption and data sharing to advance understanding of ERW.In this episode, Na'im, Dai, and Vilas discuss:* The co-founders' vision for launching and building Cascade;* The problem Cascade was founded to solve;* The reason for focusing on ERW and the key challenges associated;* The current state of net removal quantification and the reason for creating a community-built standard;* Incentives to encourage adoption and implementation of the community-built standard;* The importance of having data-access and encouraging data-sharing in driving shared learning and building trust;* The role policymakers play in ERW;* Responsible deployment of ERW in the Global South; and* The good-movie and the bad-movie versions of open-system climate intervention.Relevant Links:* Carbon Curve Podcast Ep. 3 - “Dai Ellis on what scaling up HIV medicines can teach us about building a thriving carbon removal market”* The Great Unwind - Substack by Dai Ellis* Carbon Travels - Substack by John Sanchez* Foundations for a Healthy ERW Market Cycle - Blog Post* Cascade Climate on OpenAir's This is CDR webinar series* Cascade Climate websiteAbout Dai:Dai Ellis is CEO and co-founder at Cascade Climate. Dai is an entrepreneur with deep experience founding and scaling high-performing nonprofit and for-profit ventures across climate, health, and education. He has co-founded five different ventures and paid forward what he's learned the hard way as an executive coach to climate tech founders and CEOs. Earlier in his career, Dai led the Clinton Health Access Initiative's pioneering work on market shaping for drugs, vaccines, and other health products in the Global South. More recently, he has been at the forefront of efforts to import learning and tools from global health market shaping into climate tech.About Vilas:Vilas Rao is a co-founder at Cascade Climate. Vilas has been growing businesses in the agriculture technology space for the past decade, looking for ways to apply technology to agricultural production systems to drive a more sustainable and secure food supply. Prior to Cascade, Vilas was the Chief Revenue Officer for Arable Labs, which delivers a real-time crop monitoring solution for farming. Earlier in his career, Vilas led the scale up of FieldView, the largest data platform and partner ecosystem in agriculture while at The Climate Corporation. Vilas got his start in agriculture working with smallholder farmers in Nepal, which led to his lifelong fascination with the connections between the food system, economic opportunity, and our planetary footprint.About Cascade Climate:Cascade Climate works to accelerate progress in climate interventions that leverage Earth's natural systems—from soils to oceans to glaciers—to stabilize our climate. As a philanthropically-backed nonprofit, Cascade coordinates and resources ambitious initiatives across science, industry, philanthropy, and policy to overcome the core bottlenecks that are holding back the most promising open-system climate interventions. Its initial focus is advancing the development of a healthy market for enhanced rock weathering (ERW), underpinned by its scientific evidence base and its potential for durable, gigaton-scale carbon dioxide removal.This episode was created and published by Na'im Merchant. Episode production and content support provided by Tank Chen.Na'im Merchant is the co-founder and Executive Director of Carbon Removal Canada, a policy initiative focused on scaling carbon removal in Canada. He is also a policy fellow with Elemental Excelerator. He previously ran carbon removal consulting practice Carbon Curve, and publishes The Carbon Curve newsletter and podcast. Every two weeks, Na'im will release a short interview with individuals advancing the policies, technologies, and collective action needed to scale up carbon removal around the world.Tank Chen is a carbon removal advocate based in Taiwan whose focus is on communicating the importance of carbon removal to policy makers, corporate leaders, and the broader public through education, communications, and policy advocacy.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast on your favorite podcast app or subscribe via The Carbon Curve newsletter here. If you'd like to get in touch with Na'im, you can reach out via LinkedIn. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit carboncurve.substack.com

Variable Rate done RIGHT with SWAT MAPS: https://swatmaps.com/Lavoro Agro: https://www.lavoroagro.com/Software Is Feeding The World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftwWork with Rhishi: https://www.metaldoglabs.ai/Brazil has officially overtaken the US to become the top corn exporter in the world. And companies like Lavoro Agro are seizing a huge opportunity to bring more technology to Brazilian farmers. "A US corn farmer is gonna be two times more productive than that Brazilian farmer, and the difference really is gonna come down to technology. And that technology comes in the form of inputs. And inputs is really where Lavoro plays." That's Lavoro's Chief Digital Officer, Alex. Wimbush. Today, he sits down with guest host Rhishi Pethe, who was also his colleague when they both worked at the Climate Corporation. I'm noticing a lot of companies out there almost have like a FOMO about AI and you know, some of these new tools like ChatGPT. Are you feeling the pressure from certain folks, like, Hey, we need to use ChatGPT, or we need to use, you know, whatever the latest shiny object is?This episode is a fascinating exploration of product management, Brazil. In agriculture and ag retail." I haven't seen yet any real true sort of sustained higher value input plus services plus products plus digital type offering. Rhishi Pethe interviews Lavoro Agro's Alex Wimbush on today's Future of Agriculture podcast.

Kip is a Champaign County, Illinois, farm kid who has worked to help Leaders Feed the World. He is the president and CEO of The Pendleton Group, a strategic consulting firm serving technology and agriculture companies on Precision Agriculture; Ag Big Data or Decision Agriculture; and Emerging Food and Feed Value Chains for Non-GMO and Organic. His father Dr. Johnny W. Pendleton was named the Agronomist of the 1960's at the University of Illinois and recognized globally for his efforts to help farmers feed the world in the US and with the Ford Rockefeller Research Institutes IRRI in the Philippines and IITA in Nigeria. Kip grew up learning first-hand the impact of technology and production systems to return ROI to producers of all sizes.Kip is current Executive Chairman of Jord Biocience and was founder and CEO for the first five years of the company. He also sits on the Cox Family Fund Board and Chairs the Ag Tech Committee. He was president and CEO and senior vice president of Agriculture for DTN and helped TBG, a Family Office in Zurich, acquire the company for $900 million, the second largest Ag Tech acquisition behind the Monsanto acquisition of Climate Corporation. He was senior vice president and general manager of Agriculture at Hemisphere GPS; founder, president, CEO and chairman of DirectAg, the first e-commerce company in agriculture; and then president and co-CEO of Agristar, the company that acquired DirectAg. He worked 18 years in the seed industry with leading public companies including Dupont Pioneer, Syngenta Northrup King and Dow AgroSciences Mycogen Seeds as seed moved from gentic commodities to technology delivery systems. He has been a part of value creation through executing and implementing 32 acquisitions and eight divestments in Ag and Technology to create value. He was named the 2001 Ag Communicator of the year by NAMA for his leadership around the use of the internet in agriculture. Kip Pendleton shares his insights on intention and leadership in the agriculture and agribusiness industry. He emphasizes the importance of being intentional in your focus and choosing the right intentions. Kip also discusses the significance of having a clear and purposeful culture within an organization. He highlights the need for transparency and open communication to foster a positive and productive work environment. Kip also touches on the challenges of talent retention and the importance of investing in employees' growth and development. He concludes by discussing the future of agriculture, including the advancements in data insights and digital biology.Key Takeaways:Intention should be focused on the right things and aligned with the company's mission and values.Building a strong and purposeful culture is essential for employee retention and engagement.Being vulnerable and authentic as a leader creates a positive and trusting work environment.Prioritizing tasks based on the big picture and major objectives leads to maximum productivity.Sharing information and collaborating with others in the industry is crucial for advancement and innovation.Quotes:"Intention starts at the top, goes down, and comes back up.""Retention is tied to meaningful work and purposefulness.""Culture is what you want it to be, but you can't declare it. You have to evolve it.""Being vulnerable versus just saying, 'Stop, you're bugging me,' allows for growth and collaboration.""You are a product of your history, and if you are a leader and a coach, you are changing people's lives every day."

Matthew is the Founder and CEO of Macro Oceans, a startup transforming seaweed into low-carbon chemicals for use in materials, cosmetics, food, and many other applications. Matthew is an experienced technology entrepreneur, having built and sold his first company, Yield Pop, to The Climate Corporation. He has more than a decade of experience in terrestrial agriculture and was the first business hire at Inari, a gene-editing technology company, where he helped raise over $100M in venture capital funding. * Check out ⁠⁠Inside Seaweed Newsletter⁠⁠! Just one short email per month, no spam and you can cancel at any time. Would you like to get a super short email from me every month, with three actionable insights for your seaweed business? I will search the seaweed industry for the most important lessons, the most useful conclusions and relevant actions, condensed into a half page that I will share with you, each month. It's easy to sign up and just as easy to cancel. If you'd like to give it a try, head over to ⁠⁠insideseaweed.com ⁠⁠ * [2:20] Matthew's ambitions and motivations at the outset of his career. [3:55] Early career in terrestrial agriculture: Syngenta, Yield Pop, The Climate Corporation, Inari. [7:30] Lessons in bringing technology to terrestrial agriculture. [9:50] Main differences and similarities between land farming and ocean farming. [13:25] Learning from other industries to innovate and solve problems in seaweed. [14:44] The genesis of Macro Oceans and the consideration in starting the company. [20:50] Macro Oceans business model and role in the industry. [25:15] Product strategy, the importance of profitability and optimising unit economics. [27:45] The role of technology in addressing some of the industry's pain point. [32:00] The cosmetic industry as an interesting application for seaweed. [34:00] Possible opportunities and challenges in developing nutraceuticals. [35:10] The supply chain in the cosmetic industry, the importance of brands and storytelling. [38:30] The trend of brands trying to simplify and "clean up" their labels. [40:20] Adopting solutions from terrestrial agriculture that are missing in seaweed. [43:15] Final thoughts * Useful Links: Matthew Perkins: LinkedIn Macro Oceans: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Newsletter and email at hello@macro-oceans.com * Get in touch on ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, or by emailing me directly at fed@insideseaweed.com - Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think! * Seagriculture EU: 18 - 20 June 2024, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Embark on a journey that is truly one of a kind! Seagriculture EU 2024 is not just a conference, it is a unique experience – a limited edition. Join the exclusive site visit to Ocean Rainforest: It will be a full-day trip to explore their facilities, experience a scenic drive on the Faroe Islands and gain insights from captivating presentations. Register until 1 December with Late Bird rates at ⁠www.seagriculture.eu⁠ Seagriculture USA: 11 - 12 September 2024, Ketchikan, Alaska Alaska's suitability for seaweed cultivation lies in its clean, cold, and nutrient-rich coastal waters, along with long daylight hours during the summer, making it an ideal environment for seaweed growth. On top of that Alaska is home to some of the most breathtaking natural landscapes in the world. Register until 31 December with Early Bird rates at⁠ ⁠⁠www.seagriculture-usa.com⁠ About Seagriculture Conference: Seaweed cultivation in Europe and the US is showing promise in terms of growth, however challenges in regulations, cost, and market viability could affect the pace of this growth in the future. The Seagriculture conferences focus on addressing those challenges in the seaweed industry, fostering collaboration among various stakeholders, and emphasizing the importance of sustainable ractices, innovation, research, and regulatory adaptability for long-term success.

Put AI to work on your farm: https://farmwave.io/"10 years on from Climate Corp's $1bn acquisition, David Friedberg reflects": https://agfundernews.com/david-friedberg-reflects-10-years-on-from-climate-corp-1bn-acquisitionThe Production Board: https://www.tpb.co/Almost exactly 10 years ago, an acquisition was announced that caused many people in the technology and investment community to pay more attention to what was happening in agriculture: Monsanto was buying The Climate Corporation, which was founded by David Friedberg. "Climate.com became the standalone software product for farmers, and that really is kind of the reason Monsanto bought the company, and really kind of set the first big precedent for digitization of agriculture."Today David reflects on the Climate Corp journey and the Monsanto acquisition with AgFunder's Louisa Burwood-Taylor, and he shares his current thoughts on agtech now that a decade has passed. "I do think that there's going to be some big opportunities for the next transformation in agriculture in multiplex precision gene editing and in metagenomics in the soil microbiome, even in breakthroughs in biologics or other platforms that can discover the next set or the next range of biologics."David and Louisa cover everything from genomics and biologics to precision fermentation, what keeps him up at night, and where agtech is headed in the decade to come. "I think the world will be surprised by how much we see acceleration and advancement in productivity in ag and food systems in the next 10 years."AgFunder's Louisa Burwood-Taylor sits down with David Friedberg on today's Future of Agriculture podcast.

We are excited to share the first edition of our new podcast series focused on telling the stories of ag companies. The story of The Climate Corporation spans decades, multiple name changes, acquisitions, controversy, product pivots and more. Hear about the company that David Friedberg founded and sold to Monsanto for $930 million, plus the history and future of digital agriculture. Links: Join the Co-op! David's Letter to the Company Contributors: Rhishi Pethe, Nathan Faleide, and Mark Young Our interview with Corbett Kull Our interview with Craig Rupp Sponsor: This episode is presented by MyLand. Learn more at MyLand.ag. Check out our interview with Dane.

Find out how Calgary is leading the agribusiness revolution: www.CalgaryAgbusiness.comCorteva Agriscience: https://www.corteva.com/Replenish Nutrients: https://replenishnutrients.com/Today's episode features Brian Lutz. Brian leads the Farming Solutions & Digital sub-function within the Research & Development organization for Corteva Agriscience. In his role, Brian is responsible for the development of digital solutions that support the R&D pipeline and enable Corteva's business. Brian joined Corteva in 2021 in the Portfolio Strategy Program Management role and continues to contribute to the company's long-term strategic planning.Brian and I talk about the role of digital tools in the future of agriculture. No, not another app or piece of software farmers are expected to use, but how a company like Corteva can leverage these tools internally to produce superior products and outcomes for farmers. Through this discussion we cover a variety of important topics, such as farmer data, biologicals, artificial intelligence, and more. Prior to starting at Corteva, Brian was Chief Science Officer at The Climate Corporation, and was also a member of Bayer Crop Science's R&D Leadership Team. Brian was raised on a fourth-generation corn and soybean farm in Ohio and remains closely connected to his family's farming operation. Make sure you stay tuned to the end of today's episode for a spotlight of Replenish Nutrients which is based in the Calgary area with their CEO Neil Weins.

In this week's North American Ag Spotlight Chrissy Wozniak talks to Jim Ethington, CEO of Arable about how technology is transforming how producers make educated decisions about their crops. Giving them the tools they need to increase profit and reduce wasted time and resources. Prior to joining Arable as CEO, Jim spent 10 years at The Climate Corporation where he was VP of Product and grew the company to 50 million paid acres and built a team from 10 to over 600 individuals. Previous to The Climate Corporation, Jim worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he led several high- profile engagements, including developing innovative financial analysis and fraud detection software products.Arable, the leader in crop intelligence, advances digital agriculture globally. Forward-thinking agribusinesses, farming operations and food and beverage companies use Arable to be more productive, sustainable and profitable. Arable's intuitive IoT-based solution combines reliable in-field weather, forecast, plant, soil and irrigation data with advanced modeling and machine learning to deliver real-time, actionable insights into the entire crop system. Arable helps customers in more than 30 countries optimize water use, crop protection, fertilization, field work, research trials, food supply chains and sustainability initiatives. Visit www.arable.com for more information. #farm #farming #agricultureNorth American Ag is devoted to highlighting the people & companies in agriculture who impact our industry and help feed the world. Subscribe at https://northamericanag.comThis episode is sponsored by AMS Galaxy - BRINGING PRECISION DAIRY EQUIPMENT TO THE AMERICAN FARMER. Spend more time doing what you love. Use technology to your advantage.Visit https://agr.fyi/galaxyWant to hear the stories of the ag brands you love and the ag brands you love to hate? Hear them at https://whatcolorisyourtractor.comNeed help with your agriculture based company's marketing plan? Visit https://chrissywozniak.comDon't just thank a farmer, pray for one too!Why you should not miss FIRA USA 2023!Join the experts during 3 days of autonomous and robotics farming solutions in action!FIRA USA, the traveling AgTech event is back from September 19-21, 2023 at the Salinas Sports Complex, Home of the California Rodeo SalinasRegister at - https://fira-usa.com/ Sponsored by Tractors and Troubadours:Your weekly connection to agriculture industry newsmakers, hot-button industry issues, educational topics, rural lifestyle features and the best in true country music. Brought to you by Rural Strong Media.Listen now at https://ruralstrongmedia.com/tractors-and-troubadours/Subscribe to North American Ag at https://northamericanag.com

Find out how Calgary is leading the agribusiness revolution: www.CalgaryAgbusiness.comNorm: https://www.fbn.com/norm Farmers Business Network: https://www.fbn.com/Today's episode features Kit Barron and Charles Baron of Farmers Business Network. However, today's episode is not about Kit or Charles as much as it is about Norm, FBN's AI-powered Ag advisor tool that they launched just weeks ago, but already has me fascinated about the potential impact on the future of agriculture. Charles has been on the podcast before, but it was clear back on episode 75, which aired in October of 2017. In that episode he provided a lot of the basics of Farmers Business Network which was founded in 2014, and is best known as a farmer-to-farmer network and e-commerce platform. Kit Barron has worked with farm data for a very long time with familiar names such as The Climate Corporation and FarmTogether. He now serves as the Head of Data Science and Analytics for FBN. Charles, Kit and I talk a lot about Norm, the potential for artificial intelligence to provide useful advice for farmers, and what this means for agtech in the future. Like do we need API's for example as data pipelines if we can train AI's to go get the data we need. It really presents a lot of interesting questions about the future of agriculture. Questions Norm and others will someday be able to answer. Be sure to stick around for the end of today's episode where you'll hear Kit, Charles and I come up with the idea to have Norm write a script for a potential intro to this podcast episode, then I give that script to another AI tool called Descript which generates an audio of that script in my voice. I'll be honest it's a little spooky what's possible, so stay tuned for that. To kick things off though, Charles is going to provide a little catch up since our last interview nearly six years ago. Then you'll hear Kit's voice describing more about Norm specifically.

David Friedberg believes that science is the best hope to save humanity. He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google's Corporate Development group. As Corporate Development and Business Product Manager, Friedberg helped run Google's online advertising platform, AdWords, and negotiated acquisitions and worked with Google co-founder Larry Page. David appears each week as one of the four Besties on the @allin Podcast - one of Apple and Spotify's Top podcasts — alongside fellow investors and pundits David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Jason Calicanis. He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn (finance) in the agricultural technology space. He is founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB). He is a co-host of the All-In podcast. Spanning his career, he has contributed to 32 patents. His investment portfolio includes Afterparty, Dave, The Every Company, Soylent, Supergut, Medico and many more. In this extended discussion, the indefatigable Friedberg weighs in entrepreneurship styles, investing, how to incentivize research and the problems with commercialization of institutional research. David provides some rare insight into his strategies for his almost superhuman productivity, his venture capital philosophy for successful investments, a tutorial on the microbiome, his thoughts on AI and so much more! twitter.com/friedberg www.tpb.co https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-jason-sacks-friedberg/id1502871393 Connect with Professor Keating:

David Friedberg believes that science is the best hope to save humanity. He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google's Corporate Development group. As Corporate Development and Business Product Manager, Friedberg helped run Google's online advertising platform, AdWords, and negotiated acquisitions and worked with Google co-founder Larry Page. David appears each week as one of the four Besties on the @allin Podcast - one of Apple and Spotify's Top podcasts — alongside fellow investors and pundits David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Jason Calicanis. He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn (finance) in the agricultural technology space. He is founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB). He is a co-host of the All-In podcast. Spanning his career, he has contributed to 32 patents. His investment portfolio includes Afterparty, Dave, The Every Company, Soylent, Supergut, Medico and many more. In this extended discussion, the indefatigable Friedberg weighs in entrepreneurship styles, investing, how to incentivize research and the problems with commercialization of institutional research. David provides some rare insight into his strategies for his almost superhuman productivity, his venture capital philosophy for successful investments, a tutorial on the microbiome, his thoughts on AI and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's show we welcome special guest, David Friedberg, Founder and CEO of The Production Board. Dave is an entrepreneur, business leader and investor who founded The Climate Corporation, which was sold to Monsanto for $1.1 billion. He now leads The Production Board, a holding company of businesses established to solve the most fundamental problems.   On the show, Dave discusses: - His early experiences in investment banking, Google, and what it was like working with Larry Page - The founding, growth and sale of his first venture, the Climate Corporation - High potential investment themes that he is focused on - Insight into one of his latest deals: Lavoro, Brazil's largest agricultural inputs retailer - And more

Investor and entrepreneur Dave Friedberg (@friedberg), the CEO of The Production Board and co-host/“Bestie” on The All-In Podcast, joined Julia La Roche on today's episode for a wide-ranging conversation. Friedberg was born in South Africa and moved to Los Angeles with his family at age 6. Friedberg studied astrophysics and UC Berkley. He joined Google months before its initial public offering working in corporate development. At the end of 2006, Friedberg left Google to start The Climate Corporation, a software company focused on agriculture. Monsanto acquired the Climate Corporation in 2013 for around $1 billion. In the episode, Friedberg shares his struggles raising venture capital for The Climate Corporation and later rapidly iterating and evolving the business model and product. According to Friedberg, three predictors for a startup's success — grit, bias to action, and narrative — are all traits he looks for in making investments today. Friedberg started The Production Board, a holding company that creates and invests in agriculture, food, human health, life sciences, and biomanufacturing businesses. A core tenet of The Production Board focuses on decentralizing industrial processes to reinvent how we make and consume things as a species, from clothing, materials, plastics, food, and more. Friedberg sees a tremendous opportunity to deploy technologies such as biomanufacturing, automation, 3-D printing, or additive manufacturing to modularize and decentralize production, which benefits the planet and serves human needs. One example is Cana, a molecular beverage printer that allows consumers to turn water into soda, juice, coffee, and tea at home using a flavor cartridge without all the CO2 emissions that span the existing supply chains. Elsewhere, Friedberg shared his views on how we can achieve free, abundant energy. He predicts terrestrial nucleosynthesis could drive the greatest source of value and wealth creation in the 22nd century, and he extrapolates what this might mean for civilization. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Origin story 2:18 Friedberg's interest in science 3:56 Lessons in entrepreneurship 7:15 Predictors of startup success 8:15 Building ‘grit' in business 10:05 Importance of narrative 12:35 Strong storytellers more likely to succeed 14:14 Everything is learnable 18:42 Macro view of reimagining earth 25:45 Why anti-consumerism is dumb 29:30 Cana, the molecular beverage printer 32:15 Decentralization in media expanding to physical goods 33:45 Creators' products will win against traditional products 39:58 Starbucks the first personalized consumer products company 42:30 Abundant free energy 53:45 From laborers to knowledge workers to narrators 1:00:34 Thoughts on UBI 1:04:55 Why is there fear around new technology? 1:06:03 Implications of solving the protein folding problem

Scott Spal is a scientist with The Climate Corporation. In his current role, he investigates how enhancements to Climate FieldView can improve farmer profitability, as well as transparency and sustainability in agriculture. Listen to this episode to learn how farmers benefit from the massive amounts of data that they collect in their fields. To learn more about The Climate Corporation, please visit www.climate.com.

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

DeLoss Jahnke shares an interview between Jim Taylor and Julie Tomlinson with South Central FS that experienced damage in the December 10 tornado. DeLoss then visits with Sachi Desai, Senior Director of Digital Partnerships for Bayer's Climate Corporation, to discuss details about Bayer's new Project Carbonview initiative with Amazon and Bushel. Plus market information and business news from the day.

In this episode, my guest is Daniel Mccaffery. Daniel is a technology thought leader driving Data and Analytics at Climate Corporation (a division of Bayer). Daniel shares his insights on using ML to provide personalized recommendations for helping farmers grow crops with higher yield, profitable and sustainability. This involves deciding the right seed, right crop protection, density levels across different parts of the farm, etc. This is a fascinating example of AI and physical sciences coming together to build an innovative product offering. Daniel and I had a blast covering several topics: the building of models, model deployment and re-training, explainability for farmers to understand the recommendations, managing bias, experimentation A/B testing, monitoring drifts, data labeling, and perspectives on key bottlenecks in going from idea to ROI.

Michelle Potthoff of The Climate Corporation joins us this week for #TechTuesday! Michelle talks to us about Climate FieldView. We dive into the features, benefits, and pricing.

Harvest season is firing up across the country as combines and pickers roll to bring in the 2021 crop. There's another crop you might want to be thinking about – your data. And while the idea may sound like drudgery, tech companies are ramping up their game to give farmers the tools they need. Check in as we talk with Tom Eickhoff, https://www.climate.com (The Climate Corporation); and Orland Saez, https://www.aker.ag (Aker Ag), to learn more about data, and new ways to capture it from your farm.

Jason Bull is Chief Technology Officer of Benson Hill, a St. Louis-based food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants thru its cutting-edge food innovation engine.  Jason leads the company's combined R&D and Data Science capabilities across predictive breeding, genomics, product discovery, big data engineering and software development. Prior to joining Benson Hill, he served as VP, Strategy & Machine Learning at Object Computing, Inc. and before that spent twenty years with Bayer (Monsanto) and then Climate Corporation, most recently as its Global VP R&D of Digital Seed Science. Jason has been granted 30 patents in digital agriculture, molecular breeding and robotic seed chipping and has also authored 15 publications. He earned his Ph.D. in Quantitative Genetics and Biometrics and a Bachelors Degree in AgSci (Honors) in Quantitative Genetics and Analytics from the University of Queensland in Australia.

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dave Friedberg, founder of The Production Board, to talk about the western US's ‘mega-drought' (5:15), attracting cash to climate tech (8:30), the economic consequences of climate change (13:15), creating the Climate Corporation (16:15), getting investment from Larry Page (22:10), and Koch Industries (25:25), the future of food (28:00), “printing” drinks (34:05), water (39:15), climate migration (43:45), and how technology has saved the day before (45:45). Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dannyinthevalley. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Miguel Armaza sits down with the fascinating Amy Nauiokas, Founder and CEO of Anthemis, a Venture Capital firm founded in 2008 that aims to cultivate change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity. Some of their most notable investments include Carta, Betterment, Pipe, Rally Rd, Simple, and Backstage Capital. Amy is also Founder/CEO of Archer Gray, a media production and content company. In this great conversation, we talk about: - Amy's journey and how she found herself making her first Venture Capital investments in Cameroon in the early 90s. - Navigating Wall Street and why she eventually decided to leave big banks to launch Anthemis - Fundraising from LPs in 2008 – a year when the financial industry collapsed but also a time with major technological innovations. - Bridging the conversation between incumbents and startups. - Backing models that transform and create resiliency inside of the financial system - Their commitment to build the most diverse and inclusive team in Tech and Wall Street - Anthemis' Venture Studio strategy - Fundraising reflections, leadership lessons as a VC founder… And a lot more! Amy Nauiokas Amy Nauiokas is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthemis, the leading digital financial services investment firm, and Founder and CEO of Archer Gray, a media production and content company. She is a visionary executive, investor, producer and a recognized leader in innovation, strategy, and management across a variety of markets and industries. As a venture capitalist, Amy identifies and invests in early stage technology companies focused on the disruption of media, financial services and marketplaces. She has built a strong investment portfolio of best-in-class, high growth companies. Current investments include Betterment, Trov, Happy Money and Currencycloud. Her exits include Flo Technologies, Zoopla, the UK's leading property research website; Fidor Bank, acquired by BPCE in 2016; Simple, acquired by BBVA in 2014; and The Climate Corporation, acquired by Monsanto in 2013. Amy received a master's in international business from Columbia University, where she has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the business school, and received her BA in International Studies from Dickinson College. About Anthemis Anthemis cultivates change in our financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity. Founded on three guiding principles - authentic collaboration, virtuous cycle outcomes and diversity and inclusivity - our deep understanding of markets and models, passion for emerging technology and values inspire everything we do. By creating fertile ground for a diverse group of startups, investors, entrepreneurs, institutions, academics, and visionaries to converge, we believe we can solve the financial systems most pressing challenges faster, better and for the benefit of all. Visit www.anthemis.com for more information. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Miguel's Twitter: twitter.com/MiguelArmaza Miguel's Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3jWIpqp

Today's episode is with Colleen McCreary, the Chief People Officer at Credit Karma.    With more than 20 years of experience in HR, operations, recruiting and M&A, Colleen has headed up the people function at companies such as Vevo, The Climate Corporation, and Zynga. She's also seen the early-stages and scaled through multiple IPOs and acquisitions, which means she has a great perspective on the people problems founders tend to run into as their businesses grow.   We kick this conversation off with Colleen's explanation of why she designs for the 80% and focuses on clarity, context, and consistency when building people organizations and crafting culture. She walks us through some really tactical examples of that work, including how her team approaches compensation at Credit Karma and the reason they do promotions quarterly.   Colleen also shares why she views the Chief People Officer not as the CEO of culture, but rather the product manager of the systems and tools that run the company. She gives a detailed look at how she approaches many of those systems, from how rewards and recognition were incredibly different at Zynga and Credit Karma, to why career growth isn't just about a promotion. Colleen also shares her take on whether we should double down on strengths or focus on correcting weaknesses when it comes to performance.   Given her experience as a 4X Chief People Officer, today's episode is a must-listen for first-time founders and early people leaders looking for a roadmap as their startups scale.   You can follow Colleen on Twitter at @Chiefpplofficer, and you can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson. 

Jeff Mize is a veteran entrepreneur who sold his firm NAVTEQ to Nokia for $8.1 billion and his Climate Corporation to Monsanto for $1.1 billion. He now heads up PostProcess Technologies. There, Jeff wants to help 3D printed goods become a reality through a number of post-processing solutions. With a variety of technologies with exciting names, Post Process helps remove SLA supports, de-powder SLS builds, and surface finish parts. We talked about Jeff's goals for the company and how he sees the industry grow and change. I think that both Max and I learned a lot from Jeff and hope that you will as well.

Variable rate seeding prescriptions are one precision ag practice that has become commonplace in modern agriculture. The Climate Corporation is one commercial organization on the forefront of variable rate seed prescription generation. Matt Lau and Morrison Jacobs join this episode of the FarmBits podcast to discuss Climate Corporation's offerings for informing planting decisions. Matt is the Global Product Manager for Climate's scripting division and Morrison is Climate's Corn Modeling Lead. Together, they provide a comprehensive overview of how Climate Corporation helps farmers make smarter decisions when it comes to planting. In this episode, we discuss the methods behind Climate's seeding prescriptions, how Climate is leveraging their relationship with Bayer to enable smarter hybrid recommendations through aggregated data, and what technology they are looking forward to bringing to the table to address farmers' challenges in the future. Many farmers have invested in the Climate FieldView platform and this episode offers a unique opportunity to learn in more detail about the value FieldView offers to its users. Climate Corporation Information: Website: https://climate.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateCorp Fieldview Tutorials: https://climate.com/getting-started Around the Farm Climate Podcast: https://climate.com/podcasts Guest Information: Matt Lau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-lau-1a489589/ Morrison Jacobs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morrison-jacobs-3176b946/ FarmBits Listener Survey: https://go.unl.edu/farmbitssurvey FarmBits Team Contact Info: E-Mail: farmbits@unl.edu Twitter: https://twitter.com/NEDigitalAg Samantha's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamanthaTeten Jackson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jstansell87 Opinions expressed by the hosts and guests on this podcast are solely their own, and do not reflect the views of Nebraska Extension or the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

MLOps community meetup #49! Last Wednesday we talked to Lak Lakshmanan, Data Analytics and AI Solutions, Google Cloud. // Abstract: Design patterns are formalized best practices to solve common problems when designing a software system. As machine learning moves from being a research discipline to a software one, it is useful to catalogue tried-and-proven methods to help engineers tackle frequently occurring problems that crop up during the ML process. In this talk, I will cover five patterns (Workflow Pipelines, Transform, Multimodal Input, Feature Store, Cascade) that are useful in the context of adding flexibility, resilience and reproducibility to ML in production. For data scientists and ML engineers, these patterns provide a way to apply hard-won knowledge from hundreds of ML experts to your own projects. Anyone designing infrastructure for machine learning will have to be able to provide easy ways for the data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to implement these, and other, design patterns. // Bio: Lak is the Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud. His team builds software solutions for business problems using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning products. He founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab ML Immersion program and is the author of three O'Reilly books and several Coursera courses. Before Google, Lak was a Director of Data Science at Climate Corporation and a Research Scientist at NOAA. // Final thoughts Please feel free to drop some questions you may have beforehand into our slack channel (https://go.mlops.community/slack) Watch some old meetups on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6qpjVnBTTT8wLGBygANOQ ----------- Connect With Us ✌️------------- Join our Slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Connect with Demetrios on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/ Connect with Lak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valliappalakshmanan/ Timestamps: [00:00] TWIML Con Debate announcement to be hosted by Demetrios on Friday [00:19] Should data scientists know about Kubernetes? Is it just one machine learning tool to rule them all? Or is it going to be the "best-in-class" tool? [00:35] Strong opinion of Lak about "Should data scientists know about Kubernetes?" [05:50] Lak's background into tech [08:07] Which ones you wrote in the book? Is the airport scenario yours? [09:25] Did you write ML Maturity Level from Google? [12:34] How do you know when to bring on perplexity for the sake of making things easier? [16:06] What are some of the best practices that you've seen being used in tooling? [20:09] How did you come up with writing the book? [20:59] How did we decide that these are the patterns that we need to put in the book? [24:14] Why did I get the "audacity" to think that this is something that is worth doing? [31:29] What would be in your mind some of the hierarchy of design patterns? [38:05] Are there patterns out there that are yet to be discovered? How do you balance the exploitable vs the explorable ml patterns? [42:08] ModelOps vs MLOps [43:08] Do you feel that a DevOps engineer is better suited to make the transition into becoming a Machine Learning engineer? [46:07] Fundamental Machine Design Patterns vs Software Development Design Patterns [49:23] When you're working with the companies at Google, did you give them a toolchain and a better infrastructure or was there more to it? Did they have to rethink their corporate culture because DevOps is often mistaken as just a pure toolchain?

Dr. Michael Stern, CEO of the Climate Corporation and Head of Digital Farming for Bayer Crop Science, shares how he blended a deep scientific knowledge with a distinctive leadership approach to build products, teams, and businesses in agriculture. Mike shares early education experiences that helped him choose a career in chemistry, his introduction to and fascination with agricultural science, some of his biggest career successes, and the way his research skills opened opportunities to develop and grow as a manager and leader. Mike shares his secrets to success and the way he's used the tools of science to be a successful leader at the intersection of science, technology, and agriculture. How does scientific research work together with business and environmental needs to create a better world? How do you make innovative decisions in a changing industry? How do you take advantage of disruption to strengthen your business? What role can science play in developing industry-defining technologies? How are traditionally low-tech industries being redefined by science and technology? Guest Bio: Dr. Michael Stern serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and as Head of Climate Corporation and Digital Farming for the Crop Science division of Bayer. Based in St. Louis, Stern leads a diverse team that develops digital tools to help the world's farmers understand their fields in ways that have never been possible before.Before joining Bayer, Stern was the CEO of The Climate Corporation and a member of Monsanto's Executive Team. Prior to his role at The Climate Corporation, Stern led Monsanto's Row Crop Business in the Americas with responsibility for its corn, soy, cotton, specialty crops, licensing and crop protection businesses across the regions. During his tenure at Monsanto, which began in 1988, Stern has served in leadership roles for a variety of its businesses, including: Vice President, U.S. Seeds and Traits; President, American Seeds; CEO of Renessen LLC, a biotechnology joint venture with Cargill; and Director of Technology, Agricultural Productivity.Stern is an active member of the St. Louis community, where he serves on the board of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He is married with three children.Building Blocks:Think about your version of applying a skill set from one context into another context. Maybe you're really good at playing an instrument and you're just starting a programing job. How could your musical acumen help you as you build, refine and ship software code? Maybe you're somebody who's traveled a lot or you speak several languages fluently. How can your ability to think in a different language open you up to new opinions and perspectives among your colleagues? Think of something you're good at or specially trained in and ask yourself, how can that thing help me in some other area of my life?  Helpful Links:US Department of Agriculture perspective on Big Data and IoT in agricultureBusiness Insider: Big Data and FarmingN. Venkat Venkatraman: Monsanto's “Data + Analytics” FrontierMore on what The Climate Corporation does: https://climate.com/

To beat out their competitors, startups need to code quickly, simply, and in a language that attracts top engineers. Enter Elixir. Today we speak with Shawn Vo, Axle Payments Co-Founder and CTO, about his journey with Elixir and how it has given his company a competitive advantage. We open our conversation by exploring how Shawn got into coding while automating his work as an investment banker. After touching on why he sees programming as a superpower for adding value, he shares his growth hacks for learning a language — these range from reading old books to attending coding meetups. We then dive into Axle Payments’ business model, with Shawn highlighting the business opportunity of creating tech for industries that “people don’t think about.” A key theme in this episode, Shawn talks about how building in Elixir has helped Axle Payments hire the best engineers. We also discuss how Elixir allows them to quickly and efficiently write code that doesn’t break. Near the end of the episode, we explore Shawn’s browser extension projects and why he has a readme file to help guide people who want to work with him. Be sure to tune in to hear more insight from Shawn on the benefits of using Elixir in the startup space. Key Points From This Episode: Introducing Axle Payments CTO Shawn Vo. From investment banking to coding, hear how Shawn got into our industry. Why coding and creating content are top ways of creating value. Reading books and getting into the fundamentals; tips on how Shawn learns a language. Shawn shares details about his professional career. How Shawn grew his skills by attending coding meetups. Hear about Axle Payments’ model providing a factoring service. How Shawn discovered and fell in love with Elixir. Why Elixir has given Axle Payments their competitive advantage. Shawn reflects on his first Elixir project. The benefits of using event sourcing to build your app. Why Shawn created a readme to guide people who want to work with him. Shawn summarizes why Elixir is the perfect language for his company. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Shawn Vo on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnvo/ Shawn Vo on Twitter — https://twitter.com/shawnvo Shawn Vo on GitHub — https://github.com/voshawn Shawn Vo Email — shawn@axlepayments.com Axle Payments — https://www.axlepayments.com/ The Technical Cofounder Newsletter — https://technicalcofounder.substack.com/ Meryl Dakin — https://twitter.com/meryldakin WALL-E — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/ Barclays Investment Bank — https://www.investmentbank.barclays.com/ The Climate Corporation — https://www.climate.com/ The Monsanto Company — https://www.cropscience.bayer.com/ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — https://www.fdic.gov/ Deep Learning NYC — https://www.meetup.com/Deep-Learning-NYC/ Baltimore AI Meetup — https://www.meetup.com/Baltimore-AI/ Fast.ai — https://www.fast.ai/ Megabus — https://www.megabus.com/ Greyhound — https://www.greyhound.com/ Techstars — https://www.techstars.com/ Peter Thiel — https://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-thiel/ WeWork — https://www.wework.com/ Paul Graham — http://www.paulgraham.com/ Y Combinator — https://www.ycombinator.com/ ‘The Python Paradox’ — http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Heroku — https://www.heroku.com/ Sessionizer — https://sessionize-me.herokuapp.com/ Hamilton — https://hamiltonmusical.com/new-york/home/ Slack — https://slack.com/ Phoenix — https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html Commanded — https://hexdocs.pm/commanded/Commanded.html The Social Dilemma — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/ Special Guests: Shawn Vo and Sundi Myint.

We hope you’ve warmed up your tortillas in preparation for some insightful, technology-fueled filling. Tom Eickhoff joins us from The Climate Corporation to talk about the intersection of technology and farming. He delivers bite-sized bits of insight about recent innovations in agriculture and how they can influence farmers’ operations and bottom lines.

Kit Barron is the Head of Automation and Artificial Intelligence at FarmTogether, a technology-enabled farmland investment platform that provides accredited investors with direct access to farmland as an asset class. Kit has over 10 years of experience leveraging technology to shape the future of food and agriculture. Kit joins FarmTogether after six years at the Climate Corporation, where he helped build the world's leading AgTech platform, most recently as Director of Product, New Features. Kit joins us for a wide-ranging conversation covering his time at Climate Corp, his role at FarmTogether, and the role automation, agtech, and AI has in agriculture. Don't miss this one! Show Notes: https://themodernacre.com/147

Farmer focus podcasts are designed to do exactly what the name implies - focus on the perspectives of farmers. In this episode, four farmers from three different farm operations share their perspectives on how digital agriculture currently plays a role in their harvest operations and how they are using yield data to improve their farming practices. These farmers also offer some suggestions for technologies that would help them operate more efficiently. Toward the end of the episode, each farmer speculates on how digital agriculture might affect their operations in the future. Learning from a diversity of farmer perspectives on digital agriculture usage is important for researchers, professionals, and farmers alike, and that's exactly what this episode delivers. One of the primary conclusions from this episode is that when it comes to digital technologies it is all about finding the technologies that work best for your operation. Right now, that means that these growers are identifying whatever software is available to help them - whether that software is specialized for agriculture or not - and piecing it together to create their desired solution. As we look toward the future of digital technologies in harvest, it's clear that these farmers already have a vision for how digital agriculture will help shape their future operations. "It's [Climate Corporation's FieldView Program] kinda my little pocketbook that a lot of guys used to carry, and it's nice cause I can access it from anywhere in the world at anytime." - John Oehlerking "I really think it's important to own your data, so I would recommend keeping control of it as much as possible whatever that entails for their farm. … Data is a new revenue stream for farmers." - Angela Knuth "If we had an app, that was always updating people's positions, wait times for trucks, delivery information. . . A lot of what we're using is free, and just piecing that all together to make everything work." - Phil and John Christenson E-Mail: NEDigitalAgTeam@365groups.unl.edu Twitter: @NEDigitalAg Samantha's Twitter: @SamanthaTeten Jackson's Twitter: @jstansell87

Right now, farmers, dealers and crop scouts are working hard to monitor field conditions. In this episode, we’re joined by Charlie Beeler, a Research Farm Lead with The Climate Corporation, to explore top strategies to help your scouting efforts. Plus, you’ll hear how digital farming tools are being ground-truthed across the Midwest.  Sponsored by:Around the Farm is brought to you by Climate FieldViewTM. Go to climate.com/free-trial to find out how to get your first year free.

In this episode of the Week in Review, Rusty Halvorson visits with Jim Hedges, vice president of seed for WinField United, about a new collaboration with The Climate Corporation. Rusty also visits with Emily Metz, President and CEO of the American Egg Board, about dietary guidelines recommending eggs as first food for young individuals from birth to two years old. We also got an update on this past week's USDA export sales report for corn and soybeans from Mark Lucas, Risk Management Consultant with StoneX.

Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the future of investment across the sector? This is part of a new series of webinars AgFunder is hosting to navigate the crisis. This first episode features Dave Friedberg, founder of The Climate Corporation, agtech's first unicorn which sold to Monsanto for $1bn, and Blake Stevens, principal at Alexandria Ventures, part of real estate investment juggernaut Alexandria Real Estate (NYSE: ARE) and lead on its agtech efforts. They were joined by myself and my colleague Rob Leclerc, founding partner at AgFunder, one of the most active investors in foodtech and agtech. These special hour-long sessions are longer than you're used to, but I hope you still find them interesting!

Covid-19 is the first big crisis for agrifood investing, an investment area that largely emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis. How will investors respond and what does it mean for the future of investment across the sector? This is part of a new series of webinars AgFunder is hosting to navigate the crisis. This first episode features Dave Friedberg, founder of The Climate Corporation, agtech's first unicorn which sold to Monsanto for $1bn, and Blake Stevens, principal at Alexandria Ventures, part of real estate investment juggernaut Alexandria Real Estate (NYSE: ARE) and lead on its agtech efforts. They were joined by myself and my colleague Rob Leclerc, founding partner at AgFunder, one of the most active investors in foodtech and agtech. These special hour-long sessions are longer than you're used to, but I hope you still find them interesting!

Building a startup from scratch is an art. In this episode, we sit down with Swaroop Kittu Kolluri, one of the best early stage venture capital investors, to dive into what it takes to go from an idea to a billion dollar business, with a focus on the ag-tech and climate-tech.  Kittu is the founder & managing director at Neotribe Ventures. He is a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist and has both run and invested in several successful startups including well known names like Climate Corporation, box, robinhood, webMD, and Bloom Energy.  Kittu gives an inside view into the journey of The Climate Corporation, one of the most successful ag-tech and climate-tech startups of the 21st century. He also shares some of the key the tips, tricks, and strategies that he uses to coach his founders. *** Background Reading Walking Around in Your VC’s Shoes - Written by Kittu Neotribe Ventures

We have a fun show today. We talk with John Raines of The Climate Corporation and he describes how modern technology has been helping farmers after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. Then we speak with Dr. Andy Randolph, technical director at ECR Engines, and he describes the benefits of ethanol in NASCAR racing and everyday cars. Plus we catch up with dairy farmer Dwayne Faber who gives us his #FarmON story.

In this episode we explore digital agriculture, and how its adoption benefits farmers and the environment. Our guest is Tom Eickhoff, a Nebraska farm boy who is now director of implementation for the Climate Corporation. You can find additional information on digital ag and the Climate Corporation at Climate.com

Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. To date they have raised over $58M from some of the best in the business including Index Ventures, John Collison, Paul English, Drew Houston, Frederic Kerrest, Diane Greene and more incredible names. As for Rachel, prior to joining Pilot, she saw the hyper-growth of Slack firsthand enjoying a couple of different roles including Head of Growth Marketing and then also Head of Self Service and Platform Marketing. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. Finally, before LinkedIn, Rachel spent close to 3 years at Climate Corporation, prior to their $1Bn exit to Monsanto.   In Today’s Episode We Discuss: How Rachel made her way from marketing manager at Climate Corporation to VP of marketing at Pilot today? What were Rachel’s biggest takeaways from her time seeing the hyper-growth at Slack? How does Rachel think about organic growth and inciting word of mouth today? How does Rachel think they can be more accurately tracked and measured? How does Rachel think about the optimal ratio of paid to organic in growth? Would Rachel agree in paid, your payback period doubles every $5M you spend? With the rise of product-led growth, are we seeing a fundamental shift in the structure of sales and marketing? How does Rachel see marketing move ever close to the function of customer success today? What is the optimal way for customer success and marketing to work together?  How does Rachel think about the importance of getting in front of your customers? Why does Rachel believe that data tells you the what and customer conversations tell you the why? What is the right way to structure your customer conversations? Where do so many people go wrong here?       Rachel’s 60 Second SaaStr: Hardest element of your role with Pilot today? If Rachel could change one thing about SaaS today, what would it be? Who is killing it in SaaS marketing? Why? If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr Rachel Hepworth

Follow @chamath: https://twitter.com/chamath Follow @jason: https://twitter.com/Jason   https://linktr.ee/calacanis   0:01 Jason intros Chamath and Episode 0 of All-In and they discuss their current self-quarantine 0:55 Jason intros David Friedberg 1:35 Chamath gives the inaugural (& potentially final) All-In ad read 2:17 As a Warriors owner, Chamath gives his reaction to the NBA postponing & uncoordinated actions of government & private sectors 4:37 Why was the US so slow to react on both an individual & governmental level? What did the OpenTable data show? 9:03 David explains the actions he would take if he was president 12:37 Thoughts on Trump’s private sector involvement 16:58 Has the press failed in its coverage, or are they just feeding people what they want? 23:52 What will the next few weeks in the US look like? Why has the virus spread severely in Italy, but not yet in India? 37:20 How the COVID-19 viral coefficient compares to the early days of Facebook’s numbers 40:26 Chances of Trump testing positive for the virus? What effect would that have on markets? 48:53 What should we do differently next time? 53:13 Will there both more deaths due to second order effects of the virus than direct deaths? 1:01:06 Should there be a global stimulus package? Effect of low-volatility during recent bull run? 1:11:26 Chances of a quick resolution? 1:16:48 How are Jason & Chamath advising their portfolio companies? How are IPO’s of companies like Airbnb & DoorDash being effected? 1:21:17 How to approach the next year in startups & VC?

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Dane is a PLA co-founder who brings a breadth of experience and vision to Performance Livestock Analytics. Dane currently owns a progressive agricultural enterprise that consists of row crops and livestock based in Northern Iowa. With the Agricultural experience, Dane brings visionary insights to PLA with his prior experience in precision ag software. Dane most recently leads Iteris as the Sales Director for the agricultural division of ClearAg. Prior to ClearAg, Dane led the business development efforts in the midwest as the Regional Sales Manager at The Climate Corporation, formerly WeatherBill, assisting in scaling the team and sales from a 27 person start up company to a 700 employee company that was acquired by Monsanto for 930 million. Dane has participated in many Agtech venues such as Agstar Technolodge, Global Ag Investment Conference, Ag Innovation Showcase, InfoAg, World Agritech Conference, Agri Innovation Forum.

It seems like data is top of mind throughout every industry these days. Mark Young, CTO and head of product at The Climate Corporation, grew up on a farm, so he understands the potential of ag data from both a tech and real-farm perspective. Farming data collection is expanding faster each year, and more data opens the door to better, faster insights. Listen in as Mark “takes the governor off” to share his thoughts on where digitization is taking us. Plus, hear what he says is the one thing you should be doing even if digital tools are not yet in your toolbox. With guest Mark Young, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Product, The Climate Corporation Sponsored by: Around the Farm is brought to you by Climate FieldViewTM. Go to climate.com/free-trial to find out how to get your first year free.

John Raines (@jmrainesfarm) is the Chief Commercial Officer for The Climate Corporation, the digital farming arm of Bayer. In this role, John serves on Climate's leadership team and is responsible for global sales, marketing, account management and customer service & support. John has been involved in production agriculture throughout his life. Connect with Climate Corp Website | Twitter Connect with The Modern Acre Website | Instagram | Twitter Sign up for Acre Insights HERE

Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks.Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing Partner and moved to San Francisco in 2010 to set up Nephila Advisors. Barney is the Chair of the Board of Nephila Climate (NCx), and also a Director of Nephila Capital Ltd. and Nephila Holdings Ltd.Barney is the Head of Nephila Labs, where his primary responsibilities include oversight of research and insurtech; he is also involved in investor relations and business development. Barney began working in re/insurance in New York in 1993 as a broker for Marsh and Guy Carpenter. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in their Risk Markets group in 1996, where he helped to execute the first catastrophe bond and spent six years working on development and distribution of catastrophe andweather-linked products. Barney joined XL Capital in 2003 and was head of marketing for the weather risk management business.Barney attended Harvard College and received his BA in Economics in 1995. He wrote his senior thesis to explore investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk. He served as a Director of The Climate Corporation (2007-2012), MetroMile (2009-2011), and Advisen (2014-2016).  He is Chair of the Board of Ceres (a non-profit devoted to sustainable capitalism) where he has been a Director since 2011. He is also an advisor and/or board member of several insurance-related technology companies.In today’s episode, we cover:Overview of Nephila, and of reinsurance, in generalHistory of the reinsurance marketFounding story of Nephila, and Barney’s experience leading up to thatThe nature of Nephila’s work and how it has evolved over timeHow Barney thinks about climate change, and his thinking has evolved over timeBarney’s views on climate risk, and short-term/long-term considerations looking into the futureBarney’s views on the best ways to solveBarney’s work at Ceres, and why it is importantIs the reinsurance market a leading or lagging indicator of climate risk?The role of policyHow Barney would allocate a big pot of money to maximize its impact in the climate fightBarney’s advice for how you and I can helpLinks to topics discussed in this episode:Nephila Climate: https://www.nephilaclimate.com/Swiss Re: https://www.swissre.com/Munich Re: https://www.munichre.com/en.htmlSCOR: https://www.scor.com/enMarsh & McLennan: https://www.mmc.com/World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/Ceres: https://www.ceres.org/Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Enjoy the show!

Mateus é responsável pela Climate Corporation em toda a américa latina. A climate foi o primeiro agtech a atingir o valor de mercado de 1 bilhão de dólares. Além dessa posição de extrema importância, Mateus tem uma história meteórica dentro do setor de vendas da Monsanto (atual Bayer). A história profissional dele é um ótimo prisma da evolução digital do setor Agro no Brasil.

The partnership between Channel® Seed and The Climate Corporation gives farmers access to more experts, more technology and more knowledge, setting them up with a higher chance for success. In this episode, we learn how that dynamic comes into play in the case of Indiana farmer Andrew Hughes. Hear how Channel Seedsman Kevin Peterson and The Climate Corporation’s Seth Smoot have Andrew’s back when it comes to what’s best for his farm. Find out more at ChannelPodcasting.com

Digital farming and Advanced Seed Prescriptions Mark Young, CTO, The Climate Corporation and Bret Sitzman, Global Director of Product Marketing, The Climate Corporation

Digital farming and Advanced Seed Prescriptions Mark Young, CTO, The Climate Corporation and Bret Sitzman, Global Director of Product Marketing, The Climate Corporation

“At the end of the day, you live and die by the value you create for your customers.” — Mark Young Today’s guest is Mark Young, CTO & Head of Product at The Climate Corporation. The Climate Corporation is focused on helping farmers get their data in one place, uncover valuable field insights, and optimize their inputs. Mark leads the development of a unified technical vision, architecture, and roadmap to help Climate deliver an industry-leading digital agriculture platform. Mark sits down with the team to discuss mixing his agriculture and technology backgrounds with Climate, the importance of identifying your customer’s pain points, how ag-tech companies are helping to create better crop yields, new ag-tech that Climate is working on, and much more!

You're likely familiar with the various technology platforms being marketed to farmers. The Climate Corporation's Climate FieldView™ digital ag platform is one of them. The platform offers many options for farmers to collect, store, and view current and historical field data to uncover valuable field insights. What sort of data are we talking about, and how does it impact agronomic decisions for improved crop performance? Climate's Eastern Regional Sales Manager, Ken Harris and Product Marketing Director, Rick Myroup joined me to answer these questions. They explained how the platform works, and how digital agriculture can be beneficial for a farmer's bottom line.

For entrepreneurs and investors in the agtech startup space, David Friedberg is a major celebrity. When he sold his weather data startup The Climate Corporation to Monsanto for $1 billion in 2013 - achieving that elusive "unicorn" status - he put the category on the map. Ever since, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have flocked to apply the latest in technology to the food and agriculture industries in an effort to cure it of its many woes, including climate change, obesity and the dominance of a few mega agrifood businesses globally. Since selling Climate Corp, David became an investor himself, quietly building a portfolio of companies from fark to fork for his investment company The Production Board over the last five years. This episode is my exclusive conversation with David where he revealed further details about The Production Board and offered his vision for the future of food. David is a visionary and the insights he offers on what and how we will be eating in the future are inspiring, exciting, if perhaps a little scary. I hope you enjoy this special first edition of Future Food!

Lots and lots of trade talk today as well as some new technology coming in for agriculture. We were able to sit down with Ryan Eklund of The Climate Corporation to understand everything they are doing to work towards improving the industry.

Mark Young , the Chief Technology Officer at The Climate Corporation, has spent nearly his entire life working in the technology sector. Mark grew up on a farm in southern New Jersey growing hay and raising cattle. Later, Mark ventured off to Purdue University to earn a degree in Computer Sciences. Mark started his own company in college called netKnowledge Inc. and not long after college, he went on to start another company called HipLogic, which was a mobile technology company. Mark soon went on to sell HipLogic to… Continue Reading ›› The post The Future of Gaming, Secrets Behind Raising Money, Fly Fishing, and Making Better Decisions on the Farm with Mark Young appeared first on Farmtank.

Should we look to governments, philanthropists or entrepreneurs to solve our problems? We're joined by Sean Park, Founder of Anthemis, a fintech-focused venture capital firm, to discuss. There's a strong school of thought in the West that the private sector and market dynamics are sufficient to optimize economic, political and social outcomes. Is that true? Thinkers like economist Carlota Perez believe that government plays an important role in directing private sector activity to enable true innovation. The Chinese government is actively prioritizing AI research in an effort to become the world leader in the next wave of technological progress. A growing group of voices in the West is reminding us of the role the US government played in the development of the Internet and calling for renewed public sector involvement in business. Sean was an early investor in Climate Corporation, Markit, Betfair and Zoopla and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services Do you have an opinion on this subject? Contribute to the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn or on our website at bankingthefuture.com. If you like today's episode, please take 30 seconds to rate us on iTunes and share us with a friend. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Sean Park.

Germain Boue moved from Montreal to Silicon Valley to become a software engineer, with no prior experience in coding. Germain worked at Apple for over four years on the Siri team before his current role at the Climate Corporation. We’ll learn about his experience going through the original San Francisco Dev Bootcamp, as well as his new passion to help others learn more about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Guests on this epsiode: Germain Boué - facebook.com/cryptopapi Music by Kia Orion - soundcloud.com/kiaorion --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/departures/support

In our last (but not least!) interview from NEXT, Mark and Melanie talked with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko about Wellio, an awesome new platform that combines AI and healthy eating. Wellio was developed as a way to not only educate users on the importance of proper nutrition for well-being but to give them their own personal nutritionist. The data scientists at Wellio started from scratch (pun intended) to create their own food-related database and then began training models so the data could be organized and personalized. Using a combination of human power and machine learning techniques, Wellio learns your preferences, allergies, diets, etc. and will make healthy decisions for you based on these key facts. It chooses recipes, populates a grocery list, and even has the ingredients delivered to your door in time for dinner! Sivan Aldor-Noiman Sivan heads Data Science for Wellio, an early stage startup in the FoodTech space that is helping people eat better. In Wellio, her team delivers models that help inspire, empower and adapt to people’s eating needs, cooking abilities and health constraints. She began her career in the Israeli military serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit (please don’t think Rambo, think more like a classroom teacher). Sivan then transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. She moved to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In her previous job, Sivan ended up leading several Data Science teams and learned that she really liked leading technical people since she got to learn a lot from them. Ultimately, she missed the smaller company mentality, so she is back in the startup world. Sivan was once asked to define herself so here goes: “I am an enthusiastic disagreeable giver and a constant empirical driven learner”. Erik Andrejko Erik has spent his career making a positive impact on the world through mathematics. He is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Wellio - an early stage startup applying AI to the intersection of food and human health. Previously, Erik lead the data science and research organization at The Climate Corporation, which applies data science to solve challenging problems in numerous domains including climatology, agronomic modeling and geospatial applications. When not analyzing interesting datasets, Erik can often be found riding up some incline on a bicycle or cooking. Cool things of the week Summary of Google Cloud Next Tokyo site Deep Learning Indaba GCP Credit Awards site Data Studio and Dataprep are now generally available blog DS: BI analyze more than 500 other data sources via more than 100 partner-built connectors and used by over a million people globally DP: new look, team collab and more analytics features blog Announcing general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis blog Coursera Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow with GCP blog Webinar on October 9th at 9AM PST to learn more Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions blog 50 Best Cloud Security Podcasts site GCP Podcast Episode #100: Vint Cerf: past, present, and future of the internet podcast Interview Wellio site GKE site Cloud Storage site Pub/Sub site Cloud Composer site Cloud ML Engine site Stackdriver site Cloud Functions site TensorFlow site Keras site Scikit Learn site Cloud TPU site Cloud AutoML site Cloud Vision site DevOps201 for Application Developers video Cloud Firestore site Day 3 Keynote: Made Here Together video Spinnaker site Contact Wellio email Questions of the week Is Inbox going away? Inbox is signing off: find your favorite features in the new Gmail blog 5 ways the new Gmail can help you get more done blog Where can you find us next? We’ll both be at Strangeloop. Mark will probably be at Unite L.A. in October. Melanie speaking at Monktoberfest Oct 4th in Portland, Maine.

Harvest is underway and rainfall can significantly impact which fields are ready for the combine. The Climate Corporation's leading weather expert, Jeff Massey, sat down with us to discuss his team’s emerging research on rainfall. By providing a more data-driven understanding of weather patterns, growers can make more informed decisions throughout the seasons.

Selecting the right hybrid can feel more like art than science. With all the factors to consider, growers are often forced to make these critical decisions with limited data. Placement Science Lead for The Climate Corporation, Tonya Ehlmann, shared what’s ahead in predictive technology and how these innovation in machine learning will make seed section and placement more sophisticated and data-driven.

Spotting issues early and protecting yield are always top of mind when approaching harvest. But how do you manage in-season threats in the face of volatile weather patterns, spreading disease and insect pressure? Bret Sitzmann, Director of Product Marketing at the Climate Corporation explains how Climate FieldView™ can help you optimize your inputs by making in-season scouting more efficient.

In this episode of the Data Journeys podcast, we have not one, but two guests!   Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko join me from Wellio: an intelligent platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to help people plan, shop, prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home.   Wellio is on a mission to decode how meals are prepared and enjoyed at home, both on an individual-level in terms of people’s preferences and on a global-level in terms of semantic & nutritional understanding of food.   Quite interestingly, Sivan began her career in the Israeli army, serving as an instructor for an anti-tank missile unit. Afterwards, she transitioned to school and received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master in Statistics from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. At 26 years old she moved to the U.S. to complete a PhD degree in Statistics from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, she’s spent the majority of her career at The Climate Corporation, which -- despite what the name may suggest -- specializes in using data science to optimize farming practices.   Erik graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2001 from Arizona State University’s undergraduate Computer Science program before receiving his PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009. He and Sivan first started working together at the Climate Corporation, where he was the VP of Science and Director of Data Science, leading the implementation of large scale statistical machine learning within numerous domains, including climatology, agronomic modeling and geo-spatial applications.   Today, Erik is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Wellio, while Sivan is the Head of Data Science and self-proclaimed Chief Fun Officer.   In this conversation, we dive deep into Wellio’s artificial intelligence for eating, covering topics like:   What it means to be a passionate disagreeable giver and how this fits into Sivan being Wellio’s Chief Fun Officer The problem that Wellio is solving and why’s is personally meaningful to Sivan and Erik The approach Wellio takes toward building recommendation systems to understand home chefs and using computer vision techniques to semantically learn food The most (and least) nutritious meals for your dollar, ranked by Wellio’s nutritional density model Why Erik sees trust as the necessary gateway when transitioning from descriptive recommendations to prescriptive recommendations How they learned at The Climate Corporation to help people who know nothing about data science (farmers) understand the power of it for their business Enjoy the show!   Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep17/ Sivan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivan-aldor-noiman-297aa421/    Erik’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-andrejko-0900a51b/ AJ’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajgoldstein393/

Moving Iron Podcast #71On this episode Mark Young, of Climate Corporation, and I talk about the future of Ag Equipment with Robotics and Automation. I am super excited about this topic in 5 years I think I will be evaluating the 1st fully autonomous as a trade in. Remember if you would like to continue any of these conversations you can hit me up on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @MovingIronLLC, Regina at @rrjanousek on Twitter and Regina Narjes on Facebook and Instagram, and you can find Aaron Fintel @aaronfintel on Twitter and Facebook. You can send also send an email at movingironpodcast@movingironpodcast.com. You can also visit the Moving Iron Podcast YouTube Channel. Here you can find the video version of Moving Iron Podcast, After the Bell With Chip Nellinger, and the Tax Tip of The Week with Glen Birnbaum. Moving Iron LLC now has a website you can visit, Movingironllc.com. Here you can find information for the 2018 Moving Iron Summit in Las Vegas, Past and current episodes of Moving Iron Podcast, and Articles from Moving Iron Blog. Throughout the year there will be guest bloggers writing on various topics from their point of view. If you would like to support the podcast you can leave a review and subscribe to the podcast at your favorite podcast platform, and if you shop at amazon please use the Amazon click through at movingironllc.com. It won't cost you anything and You will have the same experience you are accustom to while support this podcast. You can find this podcast on these podcasting platforms:iTunesGoogle PlayStitcher radioTune In RadioAnd Sound CloudSo, until Next Time… Let's go move some Iron.... This is Casey Seymour…. out.

Moving Iron Podcast #71 On this episode Mark Young, of Climate Corporation, and I talk about the future of Ag Equipment with Robotics and Automation. I am super excited about this topic in 5 years I think I will be evaluating the 1st fully autonomous as a trade in. Remember if you would like to continue any of these conversations you can hit me up on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram @MovingIronLLC, Regina at @rrjanousek on Twitter and Regina Narjes on Facebook and Instagram, and you can find Aaron Fintel @aaronfintel on Twitter and Facebook. You can send also send an email at movingironpodcast@movingironpodcast.com. You can also visit the Moving Iron Podcast YouTube Channel. Here you can find the video version of Moving Iron Podcast, After the Bell With Chip Nellinger, and the Tax Tip of The Week with Glen Birnbaum. Moving Iron LLC now has a website you can visit, Movingironllc.com. Here you can find information for the 2018 Moving Iron Summit in Las Vegas, Past and current episodes of Moving Iron Podcast, and Articles from Moving Iron Blog. Throughout the year there will be guest bloggers writing on various topics from their point of view. If you would like to support the podcast you can leave a review and subscribe to the podcast at your favorite podcast platform, and if you shop at amazon please use the Amazon click through at movingironllc.com. It won't cost you anything and You will have the same experience you are accustom to while support this podcast. You can find this podcast on these podcasting platforms: iTunes Google Play Stitcher radio Tune In Radio And Sound Cloud So, until Next Time… Let's go move some Iron.... This is Casey Seymour…. out.

No matter how valuable a new innovation might be, if it isn’t compatible with your equipment, it doesn’t do you much good. On this episode, Cory Spaetti, Senior Product Manager of Equipment Compatibility for The Climate Corporation, details the efforts to expand compatibility for the FieldView™ Drive. To find out more about compatible equipment, visit climate.com/support.

From webinars to support hotlines, The Climate Corporation continues to lead the industry when it comes to assisting farmers in this new digital age. On this episode, Jeff Hamlin, the Director of Learning and Development at The Climate Corporation discusses webinars and other ways the company is helping farmers stay informed and up-to-date on the latest improvements to their digital ag platform, Climate FieldView™.

In CoFounder Podcast No 2 Indrek Põldvee sat down with Martin Rand, founder of Monsanto-owned agricultural startup Vital Fields. In November 2016, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, announced the acquisition of VitalFields, a European farm management software company based in Tallinn, Estonia. “Founded in 2011 and available in seven European countries, VitalFields... Read more » The post CoFounder Podcast No 2: Martin Rand on VitalFields journey appeared first on CoFounder.

In CoFounder Podcast No 2 Indrek Põldvee sat down with Martin Rand, founder of Monsanto-owned agricultural startup Vital Fields. In November 2016, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, announced the acquisition of VitalFields, a European farm management software company based in Tallinn, Estonia. “Founded in 2011 and available in seven European countries, VitalFields... Read more »

Determining the optimal seeding density is among the most important decisions a farmer can make this time of year. In every field, there are consistently low and high yielding areas. How farmers manage those zones can drastically impact profitability. In 2017, farmers using advanced seed scripting in Climate FieldView™ saw an average increase of 5 bu/ac compared to users who wrote their own scripts*. On this episode, Susan MacIsaac, Discovery Science Lead for The Climate Corporation, talks about how this tool can turn variability into an opportunity. *Assumptions: Comparing 281,000 ac in 4,179 fields More than 25% of field had script Products maturity ranges between 95-115 range Limiting comparisons to the same county; represents 79 counties 10 Midwest states Minimum of 3 Advanced & DIY Seed scripts in a county to be compared

Research partnerships, both private and public, are a crucial component to help farmers sustainably maximize their productivity. On this episode, Frank Dohleman of The Climate Corporation explains how these partnerships drive innovation and improve the science behind digital agriculture tools like Climate FieldView.

This winter, consistent northerly winds from Canada and the Arctic have caused record low temperatures across the midwest. Combined with a lack of insulating snow, this kind of cold weather can damage winter crops and challenge livestock producers. On this episode, Atmospheric Science Technical Lead Jeff Massey from The Climate Corporation helps explain the positive and negative impacts of this kind of unseasonable weather and what to expect in the coming months.

In January 2017, The Climate Corporation publicly announced their innovation pipeline, a robust plan to develop cutting-edge technology tools within Climate FieldView to help farmers be more profitable. A year later, we caught up with Chief Science Officer Sam Eathington to talk about the 2018 features he’s most excited about and how farmers will be able to use them to make better decisions.

After the dust has settled from what was hopefully a successful harvest, now is a great time to start learning from the field data you collected this fall. In this episode, we’re joined by Luke Samuel, Commercial Product Director for The Climate Corporation. We talk about how Climate FieldView can turn any field into a test plot and help farmers better understand the factors driving yield.

When it comes to fertility management, the days of a one-size-fits-all approach are long gone. Nick Koshnick, Vice President of Soil Science for The Climate Corporation, talks about how a better understanding of field variability can help farmers see nutrient deficiencies before they impact their bottom line. With nitrogen management tools in Climate FieldView, farmers can use their yield maps and soil tests to create a customized fertility plan to help maximize their profitability.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Android Listen here. Now on Spotify! In episode 53 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons talks with Monsanto’s  Dr. Jeff Seale , Monsanto’s Agricultural Environmental Strategy Lead & Associate Science Fellow. Doug and Jeff cover: acknowledging some of the controversies surrounding Monsanto; Monsanto’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2021; how large corporations can play a leading role in adaptation; big data and climate modeling and how a large corporation can play a role in climate outreach. Subscribe/listen to podcast on Itunes Donate to America Adapts, we are now a tax deductible charitable organization! In this Episode: MONSANTO DOES PARIS– Doug and Jeff discuss Monsanto’s position on climate change and their goal to be carbon neural as a company by 2021.  Jeff also describes the ways they are working with farmers to reduce that sectors’ carbon footprint. IS MONSANTO ADAPTING? Jeff describes Monsanto’s efforts at adaptation. Doug provides some feedback on additional things they could be doing to be a leader in agricultural adaptation. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – Doug discusses some of the controversies surrounding Monsanto and how that might influence their ability to help the agricultural adapt to climate change. Jeff and Doug then discuss the value of Monsanto developing a companywide adaptation plan. BIG DATA AND CLIMATE CORP – Jeff explains the role of Climate Corporation and big data in land use decisions and how farmers take advantage of this down scaled climate information. Doug suggests ways the conservation sector could benefit from such computing power. CLIMATE AMBASSADORS – Doug and Jeff discuss Monsanto’s potential role in influencing the more conservative agricultural sector on climate change. There are still deep pockets of climate skepticism in the ag sector and Monsanto has a unique role to influence those attitudes. Doug and Jeff discuss potential outreach opportunities. Facebook and Twitter: @modern_ag @MonsantoCo @usaadapts https://www.facebook.com/americaadapts/timeline www.americaadapts.org Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/america-adapts-climate-change/id1133023095?mt=2 Listen here. On Google Play here. Please share on Facebook! On Twitter: @usaadapts Links in episode: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/monsanto-profit-climate-change-corporation/ https://monsanto.com/company/sustainability/climate-change/ http://www.monsantoglobal.com/global/uk/whoweare/Pages/Collaborating-to-Address-Climate-Change.aspx https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-the-climate-corporation-sold-itself-to-monsanto/amp http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-why-monsanto-and-big-food-are-finally-speaking-up-about-climate-change/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/business/monsanto-dicamba-weed-killer.html America Adapts also has its own app for your listening pleasure!  Just visit the App store on Apple or Google Play on Android and search “America Adapts.” Join the climate change adaptation movement by supporting America Adapts!  Please consider supporting this podcast by donating through America Adapts fiscal sponsor, the Social Good Fund. All donations are now tax deductible!  For more information on this podcast, visit the website at http://www.americaadapts.org and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on Itunes.   Write a review on Itunes! America Adapts on Facebook!   Join the America Adapts Facebook Community Group. Check us out, we’re also on YouTube! Producer Dan Ackerstein Subscribe to America Adapts on Itunes Doug can be contacted at americaadapts @ g mail . com

Weather impacts as many as half the decisions a farmer makes, so it’s no secret that reliable information is a crucial component to any operation. Hear Brad Coleman, Director of Weather Science for The Climate Corporation, discuss how Climate FieldView provides rainfall estimates for midwestern farmers. Learn how The Climate Corporation is using its research farms to deliver more accurate rainfall information and discover the new features FieldView users can expect from their weather notifications. Read more from Brad on his recent blog post, Measuring Up: Enhancements for Analyzing Weather Data in Climate FieldView.

Welcome to the first episode of Expert Connections, a digital ag podcast presented by Climate FieldView™. Join host Meghan Grebner as she talks to Luke Samuel, Commercial Product Director for The Climate Corporation. Hear how Climate FieldView can help farmers bring their field data together seamlessly and use it to make important decisions. Listen to Luke’s tips on how to best prepare for harvest and about new innovations coming soon for FieldView™ users. To learn more, contact your local FieldView dealer or visit Climate.com

A couple weeks ago we joined our friends at Innovate Finance in London for their annual VCs Take the Stage event, where we caught up with two of the headliners.   The first interview you hear is with Alex MacPherson, CEO of Octopus Ventures, the £660 million venture capital arm of UK fund manager Octopus Group. Alex's fund has invested and exited a handful of noteworthy AI companies, including Evi Technologies, Swiftkey and Magic Pony, which sold to Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter, respectively.   After we talked to Alex, we caught up with Carolina Brochado, Partner at Atomico, another London-based VC firm. Atomico manages over a billion USD and has invested in seven companies that grew to be worth more than a billion dollars, according to the Financial Times, including games developer SuperCell and weather data company Climate Corporation.   As always, connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or on our website at bankingthefuture.com.   If you like today's show, please subscribe on iTunes, or your podcast platform of choice, and leave us a review.   Thank you very much for joining us today. Please welcome, Alex MacPherson and Carolina Brochado.

Mattias Ljungman is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ Atomico, one of Europe's leading VC funds which Mattias launched in 2006 alongside Niklas Zennstrom. Whilst at Atomico Mattias has been involved in significant exits and transcations including SUpercell (acquired by Softbank), Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto and 6Wunderkinder (acquired by Microsoft), just to name a few. As for Harry, Harry Stebbings is the founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest independent VC podcast with guests including Brad Feld, Andy Rachleff, Peter Fenton and many more. Harry also works very closely with Jason Lemkin @ SaaStr where they work to produce The Official SaaStr Podcast. More recently, Harry joined the fantastic team at Atomico as an EIR on the investment team.   In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Harry made his first foray into the world of entrepreneurship and then made the move into VC? 2.) From interviewing over 800 of the world's best investors, what have been the biggest takeaways for Harry, both in the realms of investing and interacting with entrepreneurs? 3.) What does Harry believes makes a truly great interview? Is it sheer intellectual rigour or does charisma and energy play a large role? Does Harry release all the episodes he records? 4.) What have been Harry's major takeaways since joining the team at Atomico? What have been the best moments both in terms of intellectual learning and then sentimental memories? 5.) How has Harry's perception and analysis of the VC market changed over the 800 interviews? What does Harry see as the fundamental emerging trends within the VC model itself? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Harry’s Fave Book: Madame Bovary, What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars Harry’s Fave Blog: Mattermark Daily As always you can follow Harry, Mattias and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Eight is a sleep innovation company. With their latest product, the Eight Smart Mattress, being a bed that literally tells you how well you slept last night, paired with an intelligent sensor cover that measures the quality of your sleep and delivers a daily sleep report. In order to bring you the best product, Eight used anonymized sleep data and feedback from over 10,000 people, to understand which materials and types of mattresses give customers the best sleep resulting in their unique blend of four responsive and high-density foam layers plus one layer of proprietary technology that helps people track and improve their sleep. You can check it out on Eightsleep.com – and if you use the code 20VC you will get a whopping 20% discount! FullContact provides the ability to organize your contacts, gain rich insights into them and therefore build deep relationships. With features like automatically identifying and merging duplicate contacts to the ability to snap a photo of a business card and FullContact will transcribe them for you, so no more lost and loose business cards at events. It is with these features just being the tip of the iceberg, FullContact really is the best all in one solution for contact management and you can check them out on fullcontact.com.  

An excellent interview with the CTO of The Climate Corporation, Mark Young.

In today's podcast I sit down with Wes Hayes Commercial Product Director with the Climate Corporation about their data capturing product that could help farmers make better decisions for higher yields.

David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation says new sensor technologies, data management and storage is bringing a transformation to the agriculture industry. His company is a pioneer in data science gathering pertinent data to create a perpetually evolving model allowing farmers to better predict outcomes in their farming operations. Acquired by Monsanto last year, The Climate Corporation is now covering 50-mllion acres with their free service "Climate Basic" and introduced a $3 dollar per acre subscription advisory service fee for a premium service "Climate Pro" this past week at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.SELECT NOW FOR DAILY AUDIODavid Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation

Wild Weather Chris Field, Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science Dave Friedberg, Founder & CEO, The Climate Corporation Karen O'Brien, Professor of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton 2011 has been marked by extreme weather. In the U.S. alone, a record dozen disasters caused more than $1 billion in damage. This, and the release last month of a special UN report on extreme weather, was the backdrop for this Climate One panel featuring three leading climate scientists. Chris Field, Professor of Environmental Earth Sciences, Stanford University, is Co-Chair of the IPCC working group that produced the extreme weather report. He says the report reached three main conclusions: that extreme weather events are increasing; that losses are increasing; and that there’s a lot we can do about it: “smart things that don’t necessarily cost a lot that can be protective of assets and protective of lives.” What the extreme weather events tell us, says Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University, is that “the climate is changing, and we have to learn how to deal with that. The good news, as Chris said, is that there are a lot of specific examples where we have been successful. We’re falling behind right now. But, at certain places, at certain times, people have done a very good job.” One area acutely threatened by climate change is food production, where decades of steady gains could be reversed. Chris Field notes that global food production has increased by a predictable 1% to 2% per year over the past 50 years. But, he warns, “I see food security at the heart of a perfect storm.” One proven hedge against this uncertainty is resiliency, says Karen O'Brien, Professor of Sociology and Human Geology, University of Oslo. “A lot of people think of resilience as going back to what it was before, but it’s also about being adaptive, being able to deal with these changes that are coming in a way that has a short- and long-term perspective.” The reality of extreme weather is forcing impacted individuals – whatever their personal beliefs about climate change – to acknowledge that something is amiss. “What we hear a lot from farmers, for example, is that they don’t really think about climate change by reading headlines about climate change forecasts,” says Dave Friedberg, Founder and CEO, The Climate Corporation. “They think about climate change when they’ve had a significant loss two, three years in a row. I think the psychology of risk and the psychology of loss is such that you don’t necessarily think about it unless it is something you can relate to, or there’s an experience you’ve had associated with it.” This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on December 13, 2011

David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill), discusses the startup process and the challenges faced during the development of his innovative technology company that is changing the insurance sector. Friedberg explores essential components in the entrepreneurial experience, including the need to solve real problems, making meaningful impact, and the value of embracing the grind required in reaching success.

David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill), discusses the startup process and the challenges faced during the development of his innovative technology company that is changing the insurance sector. Friedberg explores essential components in the entrepreneurial experience, including the need to solve real problems, making meaningful impact, and the value of embracing the grind required in reaching success.

David Friedberg, CEO of The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill), discusses the startup process and the challenges faced during the development of his innovative technology company that is changing the insurance sector. Friedberg explores essential components in the entrepreneurial experience, including the need to solve real problems, making meaningful impact, and the value of embracing the grind required in reaching success.