David and Annie Lu, siblings and co-founders of H20k InnovationsPhoto courtesy David and Annie LuAnnie Lu was a student at Harvard when Covid-19 brought the world to a screeching halt, including her own college experience.”I remember in March of 2020 basically being kicked off campus and everything going virtual,” Lu, 22, told CNBC in a video interview in June. At the end of the spring semester in 2020, Lu’s sophomore year, she did not return to school.related investing news 4 hours agoShe hasn’t looked back since.That’s because Lu, and her older brother David, 25, have since launched and are now growing their own company, H2Ok Innovations, which uses a combination of hardware and software to improve the efficiency of factories by reducing how much liquid they use.”I can’t speak to what would have been, but what I can say is it was such an easy decision for me to make and it was so obvious,” Annie told CNBC. “The trade-off was virtually nothing.”Leaving Harvard and becoming obsessed with improving factory efficiency with your older brother might seem like a surprising move.But there is a deep family connection: Annie and David’s paternal grandfather started a factory in China that manufactured specialty fine chemicals, and their dad worked fo …
