This week: coronavirus is rewriting the cleantech startup survival guide.The implosion for early-stage companies has been swift. According to a New York Times analysis, 6,000 people at 50 startups have lost their jobs since the middle of March. Once fast-growing companies are losing their revenue overnight, laying off or furloughing up to 50 percent of their ... Show More
Sep 15
The fastest path to more power: How advanced conductors could unlock grid capacity without new transmission
The pressure on the power system is no longer theoretical. AI, data centers, electrification, and new industrial load are arriving faster than utilities can build generation and transmission through conventional timelines. One of the least glamorous but potentially most consequen ... Show More
46m 32s
Sep 8
Speed to power: Why data-center load growth is creating a new opening for C&I solar, storage, and microgrids
After a decade of flat demand, power markets are being forced to absorb a very different problem: rapid load growth arriving faster than transmission, large-scale generation, and utility interconnection processes can respond. The focus shifts from utility-scale procurement to the ... Show More
49m 16s
Aug 25
Thorium’s nuclear pitch: Can molten salt reactors cut cost, use waste, and scale faster than conventional designs?
Electricity demand is rising, capital is tightening, and nuclear is back in the conversation as utilities, governments, and large power users look for firm low-carbon supply. But the central question is not whether advanced nuclear can attract interest. It is whether any new desi ... Show More
39m 26s
Nov 2022
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
(0:00) Jason's new brand deal (1:18) Bestie updates (9:12) "Ligma/Johnson" blunder outside of Twitter HQ (15:38) Surge of tech layoffs at Twitter, Stripe, Lyft, Opendoor, Chime and others; preparing for a longer downturn than originally anticipated (35:28) Macro trends, big tech ... Show More
1h 28m
Feb 2023
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
(0:00) Bestie intro! (1:15) Macro picture update: 0.25% raise, jobs rip up, wage growth continues to slow (17:52) Interest rates impact on mega-cap company creation (33:58) Mass extinction event coming to startups, reckoning for VCs, venture debt issues (1:02:33) Adani's potentia ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 2020
Square Working With Government to Speed Up Small Business Payments
Jim McKelvey, co-Founder of Square and author of THE INNOVATION STACK, discusses the impact of coronavirus on small businesses, and the role of tech companies right now. Maura Murphy, Vice President and co-portfolio manager of the Loomis Sayles Inflation Protected Securities Fund ... Show More
28m 15s