After getting his master’s in mechanical engineering from MIT, he moved to Houston, the country’s energy capital, to work for the oil field services giant Schlumberger. At the gathering was Paul Woskov-a bespectacled senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center whose office is littered with rocks featuring holes burned straight through their centers-and Aaron Mandell, a serial entrepreneur determined to get Woskov’s rock-drilling technique out of the lab and onto the open market.Īraque was asked to sit in on the meeting because he knew a thing or two about drilling. He was working at the Engine, an MIT-affiliated venture capital investment firm and incubator, when he was asked to attend a pitch meeting. Several years ago, Carlos Araque heard an idea that he thought could save the world. Photo via Sean Pavone Photo/Getty Images Remigiusz Gora/Irina Shilnikova/Getty Images
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