What is Liquid Assets?

Water is a $1.6 trillion business, and almost nobody covers it as one.

Liquid Assets is a podcast about how the money in water actually works. Each episode is one long conversation with somebody who moves it: the founders building the technology, the investors funding it, the scientists measuring it, and the people inside utilities and agencies who decide what actually gets adopted.

Guests have included Tom Ferguson, who runs the first dedicated water seed fund at Burnt Island Ventures; Newsha Ajami of Stanford on what AI data centers do to local water supply; Tess Russo at the Gates Foundation; Alexis de Kerchove at Xylem; Jay Bernas, who runs HRSD; and James Winter at USAID.

Every episode has a full transcript.

Your host

Ravi Kurani founded Sutro, a water technology robotics company, and exited it. He now runs Standard Water Corporation, and Poolify, a micro private equity rollup in swimming pools.

He is a TEDx speaker and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient.