There’s a long tradition of entrepreneurs starting businesses in their parents’ basement. Zakir I. Hussein is part of that tradition.
He grew algae in his folks’ basement and then developed a technology, using the family barbecue, to extract the energy from the algae and covert it into a biofuel. He then started a clean-energy company to develop that technology even further.
Following the traditional arc of this story, Hussein would have dropped out of school to follow his dream. But, instead, the technology was interesting enough that Harvard University essentially poached him from the University of Calgary and allowed him to run the business in Calgary, while getting his degree in environmental management and sustainability.
via Zakir I. Hussein | Avenue Magazine.
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