HIBT Lab! Tomorrow.io: Shimon Elkabetz

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So we know that over the next few decades, all of us who live on this planet are going to face Very volatile weather at some point. Most of us already have crazy heat waves, powerful hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods. And while all these things are scary and

At least for me, anxiety inducing. I do take some comfort in knowing that our technology is getting a lot better at predicting these things. And it means that in the coming decades, We will start to alter our behavior days, maybe even weeks before weather-related events upend our plants. And that technology will also save lives. Well, this is an insight that Shimon Elkabitz had a few years ago. He was a pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and if you're a pilot, the weather is almost like an obsession. Shimon wondered why weather prediction models weren't better. So in 2016, he and two friends founded Tomorrow.io.

It's a company that's working on new technology to forecast weather with such accuracy that you'll know exactly what will happen in the next few hours, wherever you are in the world. and they're about to deploy 30 groundbreaking weather radar satellites in space over the next few years that will enable their customers to make decisions based on minute by minute changes in the weather. I know that you went to the military. And you were in the air force. I I imagine that weather is a really important factor when you're in the Air Force, right?

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