Felix Brooks Church

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TED Talks Daily · How I built a machine that feeds millions | Felix Brooks-church · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Here, at the mill, in the middle between where food is grown and food is consumed.

At Sanku, a social enterprise I co-founded with David Dotson, the aha moment was, if we could build a machine that sits on that green mill and adds nutrients into the flour, we're going to fortify the entire village.

And credit to David, who saw this super early, over 20 years ago,

that although individually small, these mills, about the size of a bedroom, collectively thousands of these mills feed entire nations.

And so now fortification is not a nice-to-have, it is a basic human right.

So with that inspiration, with that vision, I took off to Kathmandu and landed there in 2010 to do just that, to build these prototypes.

Over the course of the year, I broke a lot of things.

I failed forward.

And after a year, I built the one that kind of worked.

That year took a big toll on me.

That was rough.

I've recovered.

So I had the confidence now in something that kind of worked.

I thought, well, let me head to East Africa and test it there to ultimately scale across continents.

And I landed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

And within a matter of days, after visiting some mills, I didn't have an aha moment.

I had an aw crap moment.

Those mills were completely different.

And so my machine didn't work there.

I had to go back to the drawing board.

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