Carlos Perea (Miox) - The Ebb and Flow of Clean Tech and Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 21 April 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Twenty percent of the world's population do not have access to clean drinking water, says Miox CEO Carlos Perea. What's an entrepreneur to do? Ideally, find a way to clean and reuse the global water supply that's, "twice as good at half the cost" of conventional chlorine decontamination. In this lecture, Perea demonstrates his company's abilities and explains the benefits and challenges of being an entrepreneur in clean technology.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	.
0:18.0	Colt Perera is a graduate of Stanford as well as New Mexico.
0:23.6	University of Mexico, New Mexico, but it's been almost 20 years that he was walking across
0:31.6	campus as a student in our own business school. He's now president and chief executive officer of Myox, which I hope
0:39.3	we hear a good bit about today. He's been in that job for five years. And his career
0:44.3	between business school and becoming CEO of Myox included a long stent at Intel Corporation.
0:51.3	So it is appropriate that this is the eve of Earth Day. So how many of
0:59.0	you were alive when the first Earth Day took place in 1970? All right, yeah, I can, all right,
1:04.0	good. So we are, I figured there was going to be the minority in the room. But it was a
1:10.0	tremendous impact from
1:12.1	the first day it took place 40 years ago tomorrow. But how appropriate in this seminar series,
1:18.4	which celebrates entrepreneurship in all kinds of sectors, information technologies, medical
1:23.5	technologies, social entrepreneurship, how appropriate we have Carlos with us today
1:29.3	to talk about a clean tech or a green tech company. So without further ado, let's welcome
1:35.1	Carlos back to campus.
1:36.3	Thank you.
1:37.3	Thanks a lot, Tom. I appreciate it.
1:43.3	Okay, so we have a little bit of time together, and first thing I want to say is I want
1:50.8	this really to be a discussion, so highly interactive, and we're going to kick things off
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