The So welcome to scouting for growth. Today I'm meeting with Sid Chacavartarti founder and CEO of Statwick. Seed is a leading expert

in emerging technology such as the Internet of Things and blockchain.

Seed uses this technology to develop solutions that have large-scale social impact.

And six years ago, when I met with Seed, a seed launch a company called Statwick to record product journey across supply chains from manufacturers to customer to create extra layers of

visibility, transparency and authenticity.

The Statwick team has worked with amazing customers such as UNICEF, Gavi, NASDAQ, and I'm sure I'm missing a lot. I think the World Economic Forum as well. And so, see today has a lot to share with us. So welcome, Cede.

Thank you, Sabine. Thanks for having me on your podcast.

And you know, a question I ask all my guest is,

tell us a little bit more about you,

what you are doing and what keeps you awake at night every day. So yeah, I'm a, I'm an entrepreneur with a three-year-old son so a lot of things keep me awake.

It's a nightmare to deal with the startup and with a three year old.

But I'm quite, so as you rightly pointed out,

like what I am in true nature is a solution architect. So kind of look at a problem

to create solutions. I get very excited if that solution has some good impact, social impact.

I mean, I'm drawn more towards building solutions

where we're scaling the, I'm able to scale the solutions to very large populations and help a lot of people.

So that kind of motivates me, that kind of excites me.

And yeah, I mean by like being a lot of things I mean I'm so excited about so many so many different things but I also try to stay focus on solving one problem at the time so which is very tough which is very tough right so it takes a long time to build a solution and scale it up so so yeah but that's about me. So, you mentioned you're

you mentioned your solution architect.

So what got you into becoming a CEO of a company

of Statwick, balancing technology and business.

Yeah, so I was, before the start up I was working in Bay Area, California,

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