Neoplants' Lio Mora & Partick Torbey: "A houseplant that eats carcinogens"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Patrick Torbey and Lio Mora about engineering plants (3:45), the age of biology (6:15), their $180 houseplant (11:25), indoor pollution (13:45), meeting at a startup incubator (17:30), founder dating (20:55), raising money (24:30), spending four years developing the first plant (27:25), the market education problem (33:00), why certifications is more difficult than it seems (39:30), the maintenance challenge (41:45), and their worst day (47:05).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.4	The trip back to Paris was pretty hard.
0:06.7	And since we're first time founders, for us, it was kind of the end of the world and everything.
0:10.9	Yeah.
0:11.6	And when we landed, we received our first term sheet.
0:14.6	Oh.
0:15.6	So it was just a really terrible flight, basically.
0:18.8	It was a terrible flight. I remember telling Patrick
0:22.7	we're done. This is never going to
0:24.6	go anywhere. And then we land
0:26.6	and boom. Good news. Hello and welcome to Danny and the Valley.
0:44.5	Happy almost Thanksgiving week to you and yours.
0:48.9	America's off for much of next week,
0:51.1	eating ourselves into a stupor.
0:53.3	But here at DITVHQ, the show obviously doesn't stop.
0:59.6	All I'll say about next week is we will be potting and it will be food related.
1:04.3	That's all I'm going to say.
1:05.9	It's going to be good.
1:07.6	Tasty.
1:08.8	Even.
1:09.9	But this week, we're talking plants, specifically houseplants, or a very special house plant.
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