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Jessica O. Matthews: What Does it Take to be an Inventor?

Jessica O. Matthews: What Does it Take to be an Inventor?

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Jessica O. Matthews: What Does it Take to be an Inventor?

FromStarted from the Bottom

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

At 19, Jessica O. Matthews invented the SOCCKET, a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy, and then converts that power into light. Jessica’s invention took her from the Harvard classroom to audiences with U.S. Presidents, and it jump-started her journey into the power and infrastructure industry. In this episode, the founder and CEO of Uncharted Power talks about what kind of thinking it takes to invent something, and how witnessing the energy crisis of her native Nigeria inspired her to invent a power-storing soccer ball.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
May 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (16)

Every week on Started from the Bottom, host Justin Richmond interviews successful people who grew up on the outside – people of color, people who weren’t part of the old boys’ network, people who grew up in a world where almost nobody went to college. How did they do it? How did they beat the odds while also beating away the feeling of being an imposter?