Turning Cow Manure into Clean Energy | Connor Burdett’s Mission to Fix Energy Poverty

What do cow manure, clean cooking energy, and a 20-year-old Zimbabwean founder have in common?

Connor Burdett is building Seed, a startup solving energy poverty in rural Africa by turning animal waste into safe, affordable biogas. In this episode, Grant Watkins interviews Connor from the Netherlands to explore his startup journey — from rejected dairy tech in Europe to launching a product in Mozambique that could save millions of lives.

We discuss:

🌍 The real human cost of cooking with firewood (2.3 billion people still do it)

🧪 How Connor’s team built early biogas units for under $200

🤝 Partnering with 20,000 farmers in Mozambique for distribution

💡 Honest lessons from failed MVPs, hostile customers, and pivoting with purpose

🇿🇼 Why founders from places like Zimbabwe and Mozambique deserve more support

If you're a founder, builder, or believer in solving hard global problems, this is an episode you can’t miss.