Ep 97: Kurt House, Co-Founder & CEO of KoBold Metals
- Author
- Kurt House, Jason Jacobs
- Published
- Thu 09 Apr 2020
- Episode Link
- https://www.mcj.vc/media/podcast
In today’s episode, we cover:
- KoBold’s team and its business
- Why cobalt is known as the “goblin metal”
- The collaboration of software engineering, data science and mineral exploration at KoBold
- KoBold’s “machine prospector”
- Kurt’s journey to taking action on climate change
- Why cobalt makes for a good ingredient in batteries
- Why cobalt is known as the “blood diamond of metals”
- KoBold’s technology and the “messy data problem”
- KoBold’s business model
- Investment from Equinor and reconciling working with an oil and gas company
Links to topics discussed in this episode:
- KoBold Metals: https://www.koboldmetals.com/
- Connie Chan’s announcement of Andreessen Horowitz’ investment: https://a16z.com/2019/03/04/kobold-metals/
- Equinor: https://www.equinor.com/en.html
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