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Rhishi Pethe
San Francisco
Rhishi’s Substack
Essays
  • The Billion-Dollar Problem Big Ag Ignores
  • "Anna Karenina" LLM'ed! LOL!
  • Steve Sprieser: An old model to fund AgTech Innovation
  • Andrew Nelson: Balancing the clock speeds of code and crops
  • Farming the Microbiome: How Soil Management Shapes Life Underground
Work

Techno-optimism for food and agriculture

I have spent my career using technology to solve problems across food and agriculture systems around the world. From this experience, I firmly believe that technologies like AI, genetics, automation and others will play a major role in shaping a future where food and agriculture are more productive, sustainable, nutritious, and prosperous, for everyone involved.

My goal is to explore, and ideally help shape the direction of progress by closing the gap between cutting-edge technologies and real-world agricultural practices. By doing so, I aim to support the adoption of transformative tools that make our food and agriculture systems more productive, resilient, and successful.

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Power nap advocate

My secret super-power is taking power naps and my weakness is ice-cream! I love spending time with my two dogs and joking with my daughters. I am a big fan of the game of cricket, love listening to jazz, hiking, reading history, and watching stand-up comedy. Any kind of humor is fine with me, as long as it is funny!

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