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Carlos Araque

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1. “That is correct. So very early I think before classes even started I got pulled into the solar electric vehicle team by a friend also from Colombia who was a couple years older and I remember learning to weld learning to put things together learning to design the chassis of a car to make it lie to make it stiff to make it go fast I'm putting it all together you know we would pull these cards together from scratch literally from scratch and we would go and race them I went to Japan twice to raise this car you know I was too big to be the driver but I would be part of the PIT crew making sure the mechanical systems electrical systems were up to par but you know we would we would run these things in closed loops you know trace tracks for for hours on end at speeds up”

   2022-08-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Thinking about that now that I'm a parent, it's crazy. Having your child running around in the streets in that environment is just totally crazy. But that luckily changed by the time I left, you know, things had dramatically improved. Interesting at bringing very, very complicated upbringing, but it's part of who you are. It makes you who you are.”

   2022-08-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “It was, I mean, I was born in 1978, so in the late 80s, early 90s, it was at the peak of violence. And I was, you know, my 10, 11, 12 year old boy running the streets of Medellin. I used to bike everywhere. And I remember vividly car bombs going off. It would be so usual to see those things. The city is a valley. So you would see it across the distance from one side of the valley to the other one. And you would count 10 car bombs in a day, maybe 14 in a bad day.”

   2022-08-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “I think I was, but I was not aware of that. It was my father who first brought it to my attention. And the way it came about is he would see me taking apart my bicycle and later my motorcycle just out of curiosity, just laying out every single part in front of me to understand what it did. And he was the one who said, you have the mind of an engineer, you're very good in science and math and physics. You should probably study engineering. And at some point when I was maybe fifteen, sixteen, he said, how about you go to MIT? And I said, what's MIT? I didn't know what MIT was. And I started researching, and this was back in 1995, 96, so there was, there's not a lot of connectivity. So I had to do a lot of research the old way and found my way there, you know, that changed my life forever.”

   2022-08-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT