🌎 Today we are joined by Pawel Ciesielski, the Co-Founder and CEO of MaaS Loop, a Poland-based company building reverse vending machines to help collect various recyclables. He has a background in marketing, branding, and trend projection where he specifically helped demonstrate what the world could look like in 10 or 20 years from a climate perspective. Due to the high cost of talent and the EU's regulations around bottle deposit costs, smaller businesses require a solution to help them cost-effectively collect customer deposits. Listen to the episode to learn more about their tech, journey, and Pawel's advice to others. Enjoy the Episode! 🌎---🌎 If you'd like to see the full PodLetter, go to our substack to see all the written content that supplements the audio interview.  ---📺 👀 Prefer to watch: subscribe on YouTube.📫 Interested in written summaries and takeaways from the episode? Subscribe to the newsletter. Want to be part of the community and engage further? Check out the Slack Channel. https://tinyurl.com/mwkn8zk5----- Topics: **3:20 Intro to Paweł & MaaS Loop**4:20 What part of the waste supply chain they are working in **5:30 What reverse vending machines do**7:15 Founding MaaS Loop**10:00 How they differentiate from the rest of the circular economy **13:40 Explaining the cost savings**18:40 How the technology works**19:35 Creating their MVP**23:50 Defining traction**26:45 How they determined PMF**30:00 Advice on raising $$$**32:35 Overcoming the production scaling-up challenge 

----- Links: **Connect with Pawel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawel-ciesielski**MaaS Loop Website: https://www.maasloop.com/ **Check out our Sponsor, NextWave Partners: wavepartners.com/">https://www.next-wavepartners.com/**Follow CleanTechies on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clean-techies/**@Silas & @Somil_Agg on Twitter / X 

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