Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:20 AM
To: Bingold, Joseph; Ford, Fred L'Ouverture; Redden, Lee Kamp; Vogt, Uwe
Subject: Catch- up
Hi guys, wanted to update you in a couple of areas:
1) The presentation with Oren went really well. He was enthusiastic about the idea. It turns out he is interested in agriculture including holding a record on the largest pumpkin in the world.
2) I met with a guy from Khosla Ventures, Alex Kinnier. I was introduced to him by some guys in a startup called SolumTech which measure Nitrogen in the soil. The combination of high tech and agriculture is still small, so Alex is an interesting contact. Although he asked me to keep him informed of our progress he seemed only somewhat interested only. He believes that in the future we’ll have selective organic herbicides to take care of weeds on organics (he is a chemical engineer). I’ve shot an email to Justin Grove for his thoughts on this theory.
Alex seemed to know a lot about Pat Marrone from Marrone Bio Innovations.
http://marronebioinnovations.com/index.html
I’ll invite Alex to the final presentation.
Jorge
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