Month: April 2024

40. Savi Baveja, President, 3D Printing & Chief Incubation Officer, HP, Inc.

40. Savi Baveja, President, 3D Printing & Chief Incubation Officer, HP, Inc.

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How do you start a new business in a large corporation and quickly scale it to hundreds of millions of revenues? Savi Baveja, President of 3D Printing and Chief Incubation Officer at HP, Inc. told me how.  Focused on production, with markets in auto parts (custom Porsche seats), personal medical devices and drones, Savi gave me insights as only a Bain & Company veteran could.  

Note the “skip to” audio time stamps below.  You can read the related article here in 3 minutes.

The HP 3D printing website is here.  Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners.  

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(0:00) Introduction 

(2:23) Intro to Savi and HP  

(9:19) 3D printing synergies with HP 

(11:13) HP 3D printing overview 

(23:33) Customers and applications 

(33:18) Sustainability 

(37:48) Innovation in large companies 

(46:09) Related Tech Cars Machines episodes 

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39. Chris Creed, DOE Loan Programs Office: big loans, EVs, batteries, energy transition, US infrastructure, lithium, commercial liftoff

39. Chris Creed, DOE Loan Programs Office: big loans, EVs, batteries, energy transition, US infrastructure, lithium, commercial liftoff

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Interested in a piece of a $400 billion pie from which Tesla once took a $465MM bite?  Chris Creed, Chief Investment Officer of the Department of Energy’s Loan Program’s Office spoke to me about how the pie is made available to innovators or scalers in renewable energy and energy infrastructure.  He discussed suitable projects, financial metrics and loan terms.   Recent LPO facilities include the subject of our Episode 33, the ACES Delta hydrogen storage program,  $2.2BN for Nevada’s Thacker Lithium Mine, and GM’s Ultium and Ford’s BlueOval battery efforts.  Chris works with Jigar Shah, Director of the LPO and co-founder of Sun Edison.  

You can read the related article here in 3 minutes.    The LPO monthly activity report is here.  

Time stamps below. On some podcast players you can click the timestamp to jump to it.

(0:00) Introduction

(2:26) Chris Creed and intro to the LPO

(6:30) Chris’ background

(9:55) “Bridge to bankability”; innovation; infrastructure

(14:40) The kinds of risks LPO will take

(21:57) Terms, conditions & diligence

(27:01) Community benefits

(29:19) The role of large/small companies and private debt/equity

(36:37) Related Tech Cars Machines episodes

Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners. 

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