Some of the world’s most powerful ideas start in a university lab. These innovations drive humanity forward and make our lives on Earth more sustainable. But how do we get those ideas out of the lab and into the real world?
On the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure sits down with academics, technologists, and policy leaders at Stanford to understand how they are building a resilient and sustainable future, using the disruptive force of entrepreneurship.
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Some of the world’s most powerful ideas start in a university lab. These innovations drive humanity forward and make our lives on Earth more sustainable. But how do we get those ideas out of the lab and into the real world?
On the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure sits down with academics, technologists, and policy leaders at Stanford to understand how they are building a resilient and sustainable future, using the disruptive force of entrepreneurship.
Grid Resilience, Pivots, and Radical Collaborations with Magnefy's Debbie Senesky & Joseph Kao
The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast
45 minutes
6 days ago
Grid Resilience, Pivots, and Radical Collaborations with Magnefy's Debbie Senesky & Joseph Kao
"I realized that it's not just about the technology. It's also the policy, the business model,” says Magnefy CEO Dr. Joseph Kao. “To really bring impact at a bigger scale to the world, we really need to understand interdisciplinary research and bring together different experts."
Prof. Senesky is the co-founder of Magnefy, which uses AI to predict the needs of critical power assets like transformers, switchgear, and generators. In this episode of the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure talks with her and Magnefy’s CEO, Dr. Joseph Kao, about:
- Why interdisciplinary, “radical” collaborations between engineering labs and business students are critical for translating research into real-world impact
- Why Magnefy pivoted from battery diagnostics to grid infrastructure
- How the team navigated equity splits, conflict of interest, and building an interdisciplinary team as a faculty and MBA student
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Magnefy
Debbie Senesky
Joseph Kao
Sam McClure
Produced and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
This podcast was developed and published by Stanford Ecopreneurship
The Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast
Some of the world’s most powerful ideas start in a university lab. These innovations drive humanity forward and make our lives on Earth more sustainable. But how do we get those ideas out of the lab and into the real world?
On the Stanford Ecopreneurship Podcast, Sam McClure sits down with academics, technologists, and policy leaders at Stanford to understand how they are building a resilient and sustainable future, using the disruptive force of entrepreneurship.
