Harvey Hodd (Rivan Industries)

1 episode · 1 moment · last on 22 Apr 2026

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Harvey Hodd (Rivan): Hiring for Agency & Post-Raise Plans

Harvey Hodd explains that Rivan hires mostly for 'agency' — people with atypical, self-driven projects like the engineer who built a road-legal sofa — and says mission-driven people have always been out there, not just a new trend. With the raise closed, his top priorities are increasing manufacturing and deploying on a mass scale, which he sees as paving the way for large domestic synthetic fuel production across Europe. For now, production and a broadly domestic supply chain stay in the UK, with a factory opening in the coming months and deployment across Europe to follow.