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FX Rouxel, founder of Gardyn

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My guest this week is FX Rouxel, founder and inventor of Gardyn. Gardyn is re-envisioning how consumers like you and I look at our relationship of food and its production. The Gardyn unit is amazing, it has a super small footprint and can fit anywhere in your home, apartment, and even your office.

Now while the design of the unit is remarkable the technology is groundbreaking. The Gardyn technology is a cross between aeroponic and hydroponic technologies. In fact, they trademarked the term Hybriponic™, because it combines the benefits of both systems.

This benefit allows you to swap plants in and out much like you probably already do with your k-cups or Nespresso pods for your morning coffee. The Gardyn unit uses sophisticated cameras and sensors to capture all the details of the plants. These cameras and sensors analyze the plants development, to ensure that the produce is healthy and expertly tended to. So your lack of a greentherm will not be a hindrance at all. What's amazing about all of this, is the amount of produce that can be grown within a small footprint.

In this episode, you'll hear:
  • How FX grew up in the suburbs of Paris, his Mother was a civil servant and father worked for the government. At a young age he aspired to travel the world and wanted to use his love for technology to solve big problems.
  • FX shares he pursued his passion to become a scientist but also had an entrepreneurial flare. His first taste of entrepreneurship was interning in a startup where he was using radio-frequency to make a difference. His next internship was in California.
  • In the early 2000 the talks of climate change were happening and he wanted to get involved and started working in the Nuclear industry. FX shares how Nuclear can help with climate change and that 80% of France’s power comes from Nuclear energy and as a result the CO2 footprint was reduced.
  • After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, FX wanted to pursue a new project and moved to America. While he was living there FX started training for. This is where he discovered the rubbish that goes into fast food and wanted a clean diet. This sparked his engineering and entrepreneurial flair to seek to bring change to this area. He already had the technology to solve this. The final piece of the puzzle was when he was in Montreal he saw that you can grow food vertically and then it all came together.
  • FX shares how he created a food revolution through perfecting Hydroponic™ technology, Gardyn helps people produce a tremendous amount of food in a small footprint.
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