The Big Experiment
Ever wondered how technology start-ups, well, start-up? For most founder entrepreneurs, it is the biggest experiment they'll ever run. Like most experiments, the result isn't known beforehand and it often doesn't work first time. On a bigger scale, how do big tech companies turn innovative science into profit?
Mark Davison interviews founder scientists, executives, investors, communicators, and others in the technology start-up and corporate science ecosystems.
Learn how great ideas turned into thriving businesses (or not) from those who made it happen (or didn't). Get business tips, lessons learned, and life lessons straight from the people who know.
Inspiring, disastrous, funny: hear what life in a science-driven company is really like.
Straight-talking, no nonsense, but conversational style. All technical content is explained for the non-specialist - you don't need a PhD or fluency in jargon and technobabble.
The Big Experiment
George Adjabeng: Giving back through Entrepreneurship
Imagine having to climb a mountain every day just to get to school. This was the childhood of my guest George Adjabeng.
George Adjabeng grew up in Ghana, the son of subsistence farmers. He excelled at chemistry in school and college, and emigrated to the USA to pursue a pharmaceutical career before turning entrepreneur. His successful company Ecodyst is now giving back to Ghana by donating equipment to universities there.
In this episode George shares his experiences from that life on the farm to building his own company. He discusses his lightbulb moment that created Ecodyst and how he bootstrapped and got to market quickly and the challenges he faced.
George has revolutionised the way people use chemistry labs but has done so in his own way that stands out and brings a sense of nature into the lab environment.
Listen in to find out how.
“I grew up with no electricity or water.” - George
You’ll hear about:
01:03 - George’s early life in Ghana
03:42 - From Ghana to Canada to US pharma industry
08:59 – George’s career in the pharmaceutical industry
16:36 – George’s innovative idea for Ecodyst
20:12 - Overcoming funding and technical challenges
25:13 - Bootstrapping a business with limited resources
28:15 – How George has revolutionizing lab equipment
34:03 - Drug discovery technology and global growth
Follow George:
George’s The Inspiring Story - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-subsistence-farming-global-impact-inspiring/
George’s research - https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/George-M-Adjabeng-15755137
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