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Podcast: Decoder with Nilay Patel
Episode: 'The Android of agriculture': Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future of farming
Description: We spent a lot of time here on Decoder talking about electric vehicles and the future of cars and we’re usually talking about passenger vehicles or maybe cargo vans. But there’s another huge industry that can also reap the benefits of electrified transportation: agriculture. I co-hosted the Code Conference this week where I had the opportunity to hangout onstage with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa. Honestly, this was one of my favorite conversations of the entire event. We are utterly reliant on farming as a species, and farming is utterly reliant on tractors. If we...