#36 – Alex Zaretski: co-founder & CTO of GrollTex on starting a company & quest for a real-life tricorder

Molecular Podcasting with Darren Lipomi

Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski, PhD (UC San Diego, Nanoengineering, '16), is the Co-Founder and CTO of GrollTex, Inc., a leading supplier of graphene and other nanomaterials to the R&D market and developer of graphene-based electronic sensors. He has had a fascinating educational trajectory from studying linguistics in Belarus in the early 2000s to biomedical engineering and nanoengineering. He offers his insights here on entrepreneurship in the physical sciences, the importance of business training, how to raise $1 million in startup funding, and building a manufacturing site from scratch.