How A Child Who Loved Bugs Launched Pesticide Companies As An Adult – with Pam Marrone
“Living in rural Connecticut, the gypsy moths would come through and denude the forest. And in the middle of summer, it looked like winter,” Pam Marrone told me in this interview.
And I said, when I was about eight or nine, ‘I’m going to learn how to control them. But, I don’t want to use any chemicals and something that would harm the bees and the birds. And I’m going to make a career of controlling bugs naturally.’ And, honest to God, I did. My whole career, that’s what I wanted to do.”
In this interview, you’ll hear about the companies she launched, the organic farmers she’s working to help, and the the financial benefits and risks of being an entrepreneur.
Pam Marrone is the founder of Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc., which is working to make natural, effective, safe, environmentally friendly products the mainstream future of pest management.
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