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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 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
FoA 320: Farmland Investment and Management with Skye Root of Root Agricultural Advisory
FoA 319: Cell-Based Milk with Fengru Lin of TurtleTree
FoA 318: The Budding American (Hard) Cider Industry with Greg Peck, Ph.D.
FoA 317: Modern Dairy Management with Greg Bethard of High Plains Ponderosa Dairy
FoA 316: Poultry Tech with Alan Beynon of Poultry Sense and Arjun Ganesan of Ancera
FoA 315: Building Local and Regional Food Systems with Philip Giampietro of Walden Local Meat Co
FoA 314: The Value of Farm Data with Jason Tatge of AGI Digital (Farmobile)
FoA 313: Farming Seaweed to Reduce Cattle Emissions with Joan Salwen of Blue Ocean Barns
FoA 312: Digital Supply Chains with Scott Sexton of EverAg and Dairy.com
FoA 311: The Role of Earthworms in Agricultural Soils with Jan Willem van Groenigen
FoA 310: Investment Models with Hannah Senior of Innovating Agtech
FoA 309: Farm Business Analytics with Patrick Smith and Dan Maycock of Loftus Labs
FoA 308: The World's First Floating Farm with Peter and Vincent van Wingerden
FoA 307: Vertical Farming Beyond the Hype with John Purcell of Unfold
FoA 306: Reintegrating Livestock and Row Crops with Zack Smith of StockCropper
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