Watt It Takes
with Kathy Hannun

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Kathy Hannun, the co-founder and president of Dandelion, the company reinventing home geothermal systems with a proprietary drilling technique, simple product design, and financing to cut the cost of ground-source heating and cooling.

 
 
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Kathy Hannun

Co-Founder & President
Dandelion
 

 
Kathy Hannun is the Co-Founder and President of Dandelion Energy. Dandelion’s mission is to electrify homes, starting with homes' largest source of carbon emissions: heating and cooling. Dandelion’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fast Company, Wired, Bloomberg, Techcrunch and others. Kathy graduated from Stanford with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science. She has been recognized as a TED Fellow, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, one of MIT Tech Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' and with a U.S. Department of Energy C3E Award.
 
 

Watt It Takes is our monthly podcast that tells the stories of founders who are building a carbon-free future — their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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