Methane-Eating Microbes | Dr. Josh Silverman - Founder and CEO of Windfall Bio

02/08/2023 38 min Temporada 2 Episodio 3

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Episode Synopsis

Windfall Bio is a nature-based agricultural technology company that harnesses methane-eating microbes to transform the harmful greenhouse gas into organic soil nutrients.

Dr. Josh Silverman is the Founder and CEO of Windfall. After having focused on methane for over 15 years, he founded the company in late 2022, and quickly raised $9 million to commercialize their methane-to-organic fertilizer solution. Josh Silverman holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Stanford and has founded and led numerous companies across biotechnology and sustainable agriculture over the past decade.
In this episode we cover...

What makes methane such a harmful GHG and why it's atmospheric concentration is increasing


Various sources of methane and how microbial systems can reduce concentrations
How Windfall converts methane into organic fertilizer
Why Windfall chose farmers are their first market
The biggest challenges facing Windfall and how the team will overcome them
What Dr. Silverman has learned as a serial entrepreneur
Why Dr. Silverman believes biology is the best technological tool to address climate change
A fun fact about Dr. Silverman

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Episode Recorded on July 11, 2023

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