Josh Adler
Founder & CEO
Sourcewater, Inc.
Education
Yale University
B.A., Economics and Chinese Studies
1996M.I.T
M.B.A., SInnovation and Global Leadership
2013Podcasts
44:17189: How to Build a Global Marketplace for Water w/ Josh Adler, Sourcewater [Main T4C episode]
Joshua A. Adler is the founding CEO of Sourcewater, the world’s largest geospatial data and digital-market hub for viewing, analyzing and understanding wastewater logistics within the crude oil and natural gas industries. Wastewater creates the largest operating costs today for unconventional energy sources like hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking...
43:5406:16Career Path
Interview Highlights
“Before you can do anything, you need to check to see what the regulations are. You need to consult with the lawyer. You need to check with the consultant. You need to file the application. You need to go through this whole procedure.”
Best Career Advice
“You have to find ways to work with others and encourage contribution, and that sometimes involves compromises, but that results in greater overall accomplishment for the team.”
Career Challenge
“We never got any real sales before we ran out of money for the last time. And then we got to 2000-2001, you had the combination of the .com crash, which made venture capital just disappear, and then we had 9/11, which made the whole economy freeze up. And we were among the countless small companies that went out of business in that time.”
Skills
Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Venture Capital, Start-ups, Due Diligence, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Management Consulting, Government, Economics, Management, Negotiation, Cross-functional Team Leadership
Professional Interests
Bill Gates, Henry Blodget, Tim Ferriss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University Careers, Surfly, MIT boot campers, Yale Alley Cats Alumni, AccelerateH2O, Yale University
