with ️ Andreas Müller - CEO at GF  GF is a sustainability and innovation leader aiming to provide superior customer value across three Divisions enabling the safe transport of liquids and gases, lightweight casting components, and high-precision manufacturing technologies. What we covered: How a 222-Year-Old Company Innovates the secrets of GF and its three divisions  Why Lithium Production Needs a Leap Frog, How GF is Helping and which solution comes with the best odds  What Sustainability Means for Lithium Production and EVs, and GF's perspective to that challenge  How Old Unicorns Interact with Cool Kids: GF's Approach to Startup Collaboration, and what it Takes to Lead a two-century old corporation  Why the Future of Lithium Production Hinges on Symbiotic Relationships between the various actors in the value chain  How GF's Strategy Aims to Balance Profitability and Environmental Impact and Why People are at the Heart of GF's Success  Why a 'Startup Spirit' is Crucial in Large Corporations and what lessons from GF you can apply in your own business  What the Key Success Factors in Direct Lithium Extraction Projects are and how one can influence those  How you can Tackle the Challenge of 'Cultural Clash' with Startups by copying some of GF's tactics  Why 'Stopping' can be as Important as 'Starting' in a Business Journey - and how that's maybe the best business advice you will ever get  How we need to reinvent Sustainability in the industrial sector and how GF and others are leading the pack and showing the way  Why Ultra-Precision is the New Gold Standard in e-Mobility  How GF is Closing the Loop: From Water Reclamation to Non-Revenue Water  Why GF Believes Profitability and Sustainability are Two Sides of the Same Coin and how that translate in very concrete terms  Why Going Global is Essential in Today's Business Environment to have a substantial impact and how GF's experience and support can be game changers  Why GF is Targeting Non-Revenue Water: A Look at the Future of Water Management and how GF's Clean Water Foundation is Changing Lives Across the Globe  The EV Revolution from a GF Piping Systems, Casting Solutions & Machining Solutions perspective, the Water Sector trends GF is watching out for, building a cool place to work, water scarcity as a powerful shaping for the Water Sector, what GF does to solve the pressing need for clean water in remote areas... and more! ... and of course, we concluded with the Come say hi to Andreas on LinkedIn  Check GF's website ➡️ Check out the entire article on GF, the 222 Year Old Start Up on the Don't Waste Water Website  ➡️ Reach out to me: antoine@dww.show  More episodes in this Series: 1 - Why Water Technologies Matter in Lithium Mining (And Why You Should Buy Now!) 2 - The Shocking Requirements of Spodumene Processing (and other Lithium 101 stories) 3 - Standard Lithium's 10 Simple Secrets to DLE Success (and how that rolls out in El Dorado) 4 - How 'Reverse ZLD' made the World's Largest Water Company a Lithium Refinery Expert  5 - The Game-Changing Company with 60 Patents That's Disrupting the Battery Industry  6 - Vulcan's Clever Strategy to take off its Zero Carbon Lithium: Sell it Years Ahead! 7 - How to Eradicate Dead Zones, Cut Energy Needs by 80% and Double Lithium Selectivity 8 - How Lithium Refining & Water as a Service spark Growth for a Family Business  9 - Sustainable Lithium Production Has an Overlooked 3rd Component  10 - The 5 Rules to a Successful Direct Lithium Extraction