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Aug 25, 2026
Rebuilding Cold Chain for Southeast Asia's Priciest, Least Reliable Power Grid | Joe Khoo
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18:59ArjunHOST
Maybe just unpack, you know, the kind of businesses, the products that you worked on and what specifically about this problem drew you to ng beyond these four things because you know these are it's like safety nets and and and uh things that can increase the odds of success but but what you what drew you to this and why i
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19:24Joe KhooGUEST
it goes back maybe almost 17 years ago when I, when I kind of first started, uh, university, um, I think at the beginning of, of that university phase, I was really contemplating what, what I wanted to do with my life, you know, uh, because you have your army and then you, you finish army and then you, some of us has kind of a long break before university start.
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19:52Joe KhooGUEST
So actually I took maybe a one month break to, to kind of travel, uh, across Japan, across all the Zen temples, to really sit down and kind of think about what I wanted to do with my life.
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20:05Joe KhooGUEST
I think it was through that journey that I decided that, hey, I wanted to contribute something.
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20:10Joe KhooGUEST
I wanted to make something, but I also wanted it to be something very personal and something that I really cared for.
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20:19Joe KhooGUEST
The conclusion of that was that I was going to work in sustainability and I want to kind of tackle this problem of climate change and then that kind of lead me to what I studied in university which was electrical engineering And that was because if you thought about like maybe 17 years ago, I think solar panel was like starting to take off.
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57:04ArjunHOST
So how much of a problem is it in the Philippines or at least the areas that you've deployed where you have power going down? Like how often does it happen? And how do you kind of mitigate that? I'm assuming it's a, as with most third world, or developing market metros that is a prevalent problem.