{"id":5333,"date":"2021-05-06T00:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/35.87.244.147\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:04:06","slug":"podcast-with-steven-chen-treeswift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snpnet.com\/podcast-with-steven-chen-treeswift\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast with Steven Chen, Co-Founder and CEO of Treeswift"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Season 3 Episode 10 of the Think Like A Founder podcast<\/a>, Maureen Taylor interviews Steven Chen. <\/span>Steven Chen<\/a> is the Co-Founder and CEO of Treeswift. <\/span><\/p>\n

Treeswift<\/a> builds robots to sense the world’s most complex environments. Today, their robots operate in forests, monitoring forest health, predicting carbon capture, and improving overall forest management.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to founding Treeswift, Steven is pursuing a PhD in Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania. He focuses on how robotics can be used in agriculture and forestry. He previously worked as a derivatives trader – trading agriculture options, municipal bond ETFs, and equity options.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The startup is not about you leading yourself. It’s about growing that startup, growing that team and the founder is there to kind of bring them up to speed and get them on board and put them in that position and create that ecosystem for them to thrive.\u00a0 \u2014 Steven Chen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On this episode of the Think Like a Founder podcast<\/span><\/a>, SNP\u2019s Co-Founder & CEO, Maureen Taylor gets\u00a0Steven\u2019s thoughts on\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The sandbox mentality<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Carrying your ideas over the valley of death<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Never wanting to be the best person in the room<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to read more from Steven check out Steven Chen’s<\/span><\/a><\/span> robotics research on Google Scholar<\/span>. Learn more about his company at <\/span>Treeswift’s website.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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