Aidan Connolly on facial recognition for cows
Nov 20, 2019•35 min•Ep. 54
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Episode description
Aidan Connolly is the CEO of Cainthus, and agtech startup using cameras and machine learning to help farmers make better decisions. Before that, Aidan helped Alltech grow from $24 million to $2.3 billion. During that time he was, among many things, Director of the Pearse Lyons Accelerator where he saw hundreds of agtech startups in all different sectors.
Aidan shares his insights on:
- What it's like to go from a global agribusiness to a startup
- How cameras are transforming agriculture
- How to get engineers off the keyboard and onto the farms they're trying to help
- Why it's so important for farmers to help entrepreneurs, even when it's frustrating
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