Light built a pocket camera with sixteen lenses, then discovered that machines had a more urgent use for its eyes. The road from a $1,950 gadget to John Deere runs through one stubborn question: how far away is that thing?
Jorge Heraud is a Peruvian-born engineer and serial agtech founder who co-founded Blue River Technology — sold to John Deere for $305 million in 2017 — and is now CEO of TerraBlaster, a Redwood City startup using NASA-pioneered laser spectroscopy to give farmers real-time soil nutrient data, aiming to cut fertilizer waste and transform how agriculture feeds the world.