Most skyscrapers have sky-high carbon footprints due mostly to inefficient methods of heating and cooling. Today’s guest, Joselyn Lai is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy, a company that works with buildings to install geothermal systems. They have developed a system to drill the exact amount of boreholes at the precise depth needed to create the most ... Show More
Apr 16
How geCKo Materials Turned a Lab Breakthrough into a Scalable Deep Tech Startup
Deep tech founders face a unique challenge: turning breakthrough science into a scalable startup. From navigating academia and IP to fundraising, manufacturing, and product-market fit, the path from research lab to real-world impact is anything but straightforward. This week on B ... Show More
31m 52s
Apr 9
How to handle layoffs with compassion with Ayal Yogev, Anjuna
This week’s guest is Ayal Yogev, co-founder and CEO of Anjuna Security, who has experienced both sides of the startup journey: scaling quickly during the boom years and then making the incredibly difficult decision to lay off a significant portion of his team when the market shif ... Show More
45m 43s
Apr 2
Diverse teams start with diverse VCs with Leah Solivan, Taskrabbit
If one thing has become clear this season, finding the right talent for your team isn’t as easy as picking from a pile of resumes This week’s guest is Leah Solivan, the founder of Taskrabbit and now an early-stage investor who has seen that the power to change a homogenous startu ... Show More
46m 51s
Apr 2021
Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Most of our efforts to fight climate change, from electric cars to wind turbines, are about pumping fewer greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But what if we could pull out the gases that are already there? Akshat Rathi, a reporter at Bloomberg with a doctorate in chemistry, kno ... Show More
43m 52s
Nov 2023
Pomp's Newsletter Business Building Strategies
I'm joined by investor and entrepreneur Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano. Pomp hosts The Pomp Podcast, with over 50 million downloads, and writes a daily letter read by 250,000+ investors.We talk about Pomp's approach to building resilient media properties, thinking long-term, and his be ... Show More
36m 47s
Sep 2021
Will Direct-Air Carbon Capture Be Viable?
<p>Carbon capture has long been criticized as too nascent, too expensive, and too distracting. Is that changing?</p><p>This month, the Swiss company Climeworks <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-08/inside-the-world-s-largest-direct-carbon-capture-plant?sref= ... Show More
54m 8s
Apr 2023
730. News: Is Apple a fintech now?
Our expert hosts, Ross Gallagher and Benjamin Ensor, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week.
This week's guests include:
Nilixa Devlukia, Chair, Open Finance Association
Tim Chong, Co-F ... Show More
1h 7m
<p>Brought to you by <strong>Linear</strong>—The new standard for modern software development. | <strong>Eppo</strong>—Run reliable, impactful experiments. | <strong>Pando</strong>—Always-on employee progression.</p><p>—</p><p><strong>Gustaf Alströmer</strong> is a Group Partner ... Show More
