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Michael Norcia is CEO of Pyka, which as I mentioned earlier is an autonomous electric aircraft company. Michael has a deep technical background in autonomous flight, having contributed to a wide variety of manned/unmanned electric aviation projects at Joby, Cora, and Kittyhawk. In 2017, Michael co-founded Pyka with the goal of combining two of his lifelong passions: electric aviation and business.
This is a really fascinating interview that not only features some pretty mind blowing technology, but also a great example of finding product-market fit, overcoming regulatory hurdles, and taking a futuristic idea and converting that into a real business that solves real problems in the present day. For those of you who are entrepreneurial, I think you’ll be especially inspired, and you’ll probably also enjoy the questions I ask him about his Y-Combinator experience towards the end of the episode.
FoA 340: Building farm-ready robots with Hunter Jay of Ripe Robotics
FoA 339: Carbon neutral foods with Ann Radil and Jim Jarman of Neutral
FoA 338: Animal Feed as a Food Waste Solution with Justin Kamine of Do Good Foods
FoA 337: Synthetic biology for nature-based and data-driven farming with Travis Bayer and Adam Litle of Sound Agriculture
FoA 336: Agtech for grain marketing and risk management with Dakota Hoben of Farmers Risk
FoA 335: Farming isn't natural, but it can be more sustainable with Alex Smith of the Breakthrough Institute
FoA 334: Cybersecurity in Agribusiness with Mike Moore of Ever.Ag
FoA 333: Farm Labor Challenges in Specialty Crops with Mike and April Clayton of Red Apple Orchards
FoA 332: Field Information Infrastructure with Dan Rooney, Ph.D. of LandScan
FoA 331: Building Local Frozen Fruit Supply Chains with Alex Piasecki of Seal the Seasons
FoA 330: 10 Former Guests That Have Been Acquired...and what we can learn from them
FoA 329: Predictive Analytics for Soil Biology with Mike Tweedy of Pattern Ag
FoA 328: Value Added Processing with Darren Bondar of Hempalta and Chris Theal of Phyto Organix
FoA 327: Plant Breeding's Past, Present and Future with Marcel Bruins, Ph.D.
FoA 326: Regenerative Agriculture in Specialty Crops with Silas Rossow of California Ag Solutions
FoA 325: Electrified and Distributed Fertilizer Production with Nico Pinkowski of Nitricity
FoA 324: Dry Farmed Orchards, Wild and Heritage Apples and Natural Cidermaking with Brendan Barnard of Posterity Ciderworks
FoA 323: The Changing Venture Capital Landscape with Mark Blackwell of Builders VC
FoA 322: Commodity Crops to Value Added CPG with Claire Smith and Jennifer Barney
FoA 321: Vertical Farming in a Skyscraper with Dan Houston of AgriPlay
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