Augustus Doricko

And then because I didn't know anybody, I became a personal trainer at a gym down the street from me.

And interestingly, of those three things, Berkeley, data science, and the gym, the gym was the most productive by far.

One, because when I was a freshman in college, I got there and I was 150 pounds, right?

So I was like skin and bones.

Got up to like 185 and was lifting a lot.

But two, while I was there, I met the biggest water well driller.

So the guy that put holes in the grounds for farms and HOAs and factories.

the biggest water well driller in dfw in dallas fort worth area so he's the one that taught me all about water um he started a business in addition to his drilling company to handle the regulatory reporting for uh you know farmers mostly because all of the aquifers in the western us are being depleted so all the groundwater is running out

So we're going to have something like, unless Rainmaker does really well, a Dust Bowl 2.0, but this time it'll be way worse because once the aquifers run out, they're permanently empty.

So anyway, the states are regulating how much water you're allowed to pump.

He was doing the reporting for those people.

He was reading how much water they used on their flow meter.

And we co-founded a company that automated the regulatory compliance for farmers.

So IoT flow meter, some software that I wrote, just was like TurboTax for groundwater users, made their life a little bit easier.

And then when I told my friends back at Berkeley, like, hey, I've got this software thing on the side, they're like, well,

A Berkeley student with a software company is supposed to drop out of college.

And so that's what I did.

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