Danny Bernstein left Big Tech to fund farm-bots | E2310

There are over 400,000 farm jobs that were posted last year, and less than 1% of them received a domestic applicant. These are jobs that domestic workers do not want to do. That's categorical and clear. Nobody wants to really pick stone fruit in the height of summer in 110 degree heat. Like they don't want to do it. They need to do it because they want to provide for their family. Exactly. It's as much as 60 or 70%. And table grapes, it's 80% of production crossing. It's labor. Strawberry Harvest. I call it the white whale of Ag Tech. We have basically built this space to bring agricultural technology and sort of deep tech folks into a world region to actually solve these problems. This week in Startups is brought to you by Why Security. The on-demand security team for startups. Need enterprise grade security without hiring a four hundred thousand dollar CISO? Ysecurity gives you 40 plus expert engineers matched exactly to what you need by the hour, with your first six hours completely free. Go to whysecurity.io slash twist. Squarespace turn your idea into a beautiful website. Go to squarespace.com slash twist for a free trial. When you're ready to launch, use offer code TWIST to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. And NetSuite. For the first time ever, you can try Net Suite Next for free.

If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, go to netsuite.ai slash twist. Built for every industry, ready for every boardroom, Net Suite.ai slash twist. All right. Bonjour, bon soir, Mon Amiese. It's your boy J Cal here in France. I'm in Paris. The world tour continues. Had a couple of weeks in Hawaii. What time is it for you in Austin? It's eight AM. Our guest is in Salinas, California, so it's about to be even earlier over there. Which means it's six AM Means we should be respectful of our guest. Yeah. Uh why don't you introduce him and let's get started. Sure. Uh we're talking to Danny Bernstein, he's the founder of Re The Reservoir. This, Jason, it's a it's a fascinating thing. It's a pre seed and seed incubator and studio for ag tech startups, but their core product is you get physical access to a working farm. We're gonna be talking to Danny from Reservoir Farms in Salinas, California. That's his forty acre agricultural innovation

campus. Danny, thanks so much for being uh with us so early in the morning today. Yeah, you know, farming starts with the dawn. So here we are. It's good to uh good to be with you guys. This is uh Yeah. Yeah, we actually have a a trial that's about to happen this morning, so this is a an early start here at the reservoir. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Well thanks for coming on the on the show, Danny. Uh obviously agriculture is being Um Not disrupted, but it it's certainly maybe it is being disrupted. I'll leave it for you to tell us. But uh how do you wind up running uh a gentleman's farm there.

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