41. Fred Rostami (GreenLIB) on battery materials recovery

Fred Rostami of GreenLIB talks about recovering and recycling materials from lithium batteries. OUTLINE (00:00) Introduction (00:33) Fred’s career path (01:21) GreenLIB’s elevator pitch (01:55) Common and state-of-the-art battery materials recovery tech (03:42) Technical and economic challenges associated with materials recovery (04:43) Recovery vs. recycling (05:16) Recovery/Recycling vs. extraction of new materials (07:06) Innovations in improving efficacy and efficiency of materials recovery (08:14) Factors that make innovation slow (08:58) GreenLIB’s technology (12:52) Regulatory environment (14:29) Commercialization  (17:26) GreenLIB’s team (20:52) Entrepreneurial journey (22:03) Challenges, uncertainties, risks (23:58) Mistakes (26:01) Fun aspects of being an entrepreneur