Manali Yavatkar - Founder and CEO of Palm Labs
08/14/24 • 39 min
My guest this week is Manali Yavatkar founder and CEO of Palm, a company revolutionizing how we handle food waste at home. We chat about sustainability, Manali's journey from tech engineer to founder and the challenges associated with starting a business, no matter the industry.
"We're not just designing products; we're creating solutions for everyday environmental challenges."
Manali Yavatkar is founder & CEO of Palm Bin committed to delivering solution in reducing the 93,200,000,000 pounds of food waste that are sent to landfills from our homes each year, where it produces 20 billion pounds of methane. Armed with a passion for sustainability and a technical background, Manali has set her sights on solving the unpleasant side effects of home composting. Manali is a graduate of Columbia University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, but has been a green advocate since youth when she was inspired by the film “An Inconvenient Truth.” Prior to inventing the Palm Bin, Manali served in data scientist and machine learning engineering roles at a Bay Area healthcare startup. She switched her focus, however, when she began to upcycle food waste during the pandemic. Manali bought a countertop bin, but when that began to smell within a day, attracted fruit flies, and required constant cleaning, Manali realized there had to be a better way. Through her research, she found many people keep food scraps in the refrigerator. The lightbulb went off and the end result is Palm Bin, a smart mini-fridge for compost collection.
Palm Bin preps food waste for nutrient rich “Black Gold compost.” It easily prepares the food waste for residential city curbside collections, recycling centers and private community compost groups.
Now available on Kickstarter, Palm Bin is the first offering from Palm, a company building sustainable products that complement your lifestyle and help you waste less. There is such demand for the product it met it’s pre order campaign goal within an hour!
This breakthrough appliance was created to target the 93,200,000,000 pounds of food waste that are sent to landfills from our homes each year, where it produces 20 billion pounds of methane.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meetpalm/palm-bin-compost-your-way-to-a-cleaner-kitchen
https://www.instagram.com/meetpalm/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manaliyavatkar/
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My guest this week is Manali Yavatkar founder and CEO of Palm, a company revolutionizing how we handle food waste at home. We chat about sustainability, Manali's journey from tech engineer to founder and the challenges associated with starting a business, no matter the industry.
"We're not just designing products; we're creating solutions for everyday environmental challenges."
Manali Yavatkar is founder & CEO of Palm Bin committed to delivering solution in reducing the 93,200,000,000 pounds of food waste that are sent to landfills from our homes each year, where it produces 20 billion pounds of methane. Armed with a passion for sustainability and a technical background, Manali has set her sights on solving the unpleasant side effects of home composting. Manali is a graduate of Columbia University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, but has been a green advocate since youth when she was inspired by the film “An Inconvenient Truth.” Prior to inventing the Palm Bin, Manali served in data scientist and machine learning engineering roles at a Bay Area healthcare startup. She switched her focus, however, when she began to upcycle food waste during the pandemic. Manali bought a countertop bin, but when that began to smell within a day, attracted fruit flies, and required constant cleaning, Manali realized there had to be a better way. Through her research, she found many people keep food scraps in the refrigerator. The lightbulb went off and the end result is Palm Bin, a smart mini-fridge for compost collection.
Palm Bin preps food waste for nutrient rich “Black Gold compost.” It easily prepares the food waste for residential city curbside collections, recycling centers and private community compost groups.
Now available on Kickstarter, Palm Bin is the first offering from Palm, a company building sustainable products that complement your lifestyle and help you waste less. There is such demand for the product it met it’s pre order campaign goal within an hour!
This breakthrough appliance was created to target the 93,200,000,000 pounds of food waste that are sent to landfills from our homes each year, where it produces 20 billion pounds of methane.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meetpalm/palm-bin-compost-your-way-to-a-cleaner-kitchen
https://www.instagram.com/meetpalm/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manaliyavatkar/
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Talking to Cool People w/ Jason Frazell - Manali Yavatkar - Founder and CEO of Palm Labs
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Hey everybody, my guest on the show today is Manali Yavakkar. She's the founder and CEO of Palm. We're going to talk about that. And this is a first for the show. We're going to talk about
Jason Frazell (2)amongst other things, composting.
Jason Frazell (2)And it's fascinating because I was just telling Manali as you were catching up for the first ti
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