EP55-Cardiologist cleaning air: turning pollutants into magnets- Devic Earth

The Climapreneur Show

Dr. Srikanth Sola is an eminent cardiologist who has, for over several decades, treated thousands of heart patients both in the US (Cleveland Clinic) as well as in India (Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences). It was back in 2008 when he moved back to India to serve the poor that he saw that air pollution was causing millions of deaths to young and healthy people. This motivated him to work towards alleviating the root cause – air pollution.
With his vast exposure to bio-medical engineering, he began researching the possibilities of mitigating ambient air pollution using different medically tested methods. Thus, with over 10 years of meticulous research and development, Pure Skies, the breakthrough technology for mitigating ambient air pollution was developed. He observed that not only was this new technology showing results in reducing ambient air pollution, but the number of patients complaining from heart and respiratory illnesses around the deployment area reduced significantly. Even the number of deaths due to such illnesses
had a significant drop.
Backed by over 10 years of R&D, Dr. Srikanth founded Devic Earth, a green technology company offering scientifically tested solutions for environmental pollution in 2018.
Chapters:
00:00 Coming up
02:24 Running a startup is like a Triathlon, not Marathon
02:52 What to expect while running a Green-tech startup
03:27 How a Cardiologist shifted to develop a Green-tech startup
04:22 Vision with Devic Earth and how we achieved it
05:54 Our technology
06:55 How a Cardiologist developed this technology
08:11 The initial struggles and how the experience helped us greatly
09:14 How this can help 1000s of people every year
09:59 How air pollution can cause heart attacks, Alzheimer's, various types of cancers, etc
11:30 India can be the torchbearer for green-tech startups around the world
12:07 Future of green-technology
13:00 What does it take to develop a Green-tech startup
13:52 Startups vs MNCs
14:46 How Devic Earth is helping to reduce Air Pollution
16:00: Attaining the first customer to today
16:34 What startups can learn from Tata motors
17:12 Collaboration will be the key to success for Greentech startups
18:26 Dealing with Human monkies, Monkies, and Accidents and what they taught us
21:05 Dealing with customer's pain
22:38 Journey to profitability
23:06 Responsibility of co-founders
23:58 Working with NASA and ISRO
25:29 Wearable personal clean air device
26:49 How to attain success like Google and Apple
27:44 What is Lunar Dust?
29:17 Future of Green technology and Devic Earth
30:25 How successful startups operate
31:00 How to attain calmness
31:20 Startups should focus on Deep-work
34:10 Clarity is the key to Devic Earth's success
35:28 How to make things easier
38:16 Dealing with critics
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