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Welcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.
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08/31/2021

😮 Experience awe with Benjamin Grant & I as we discuss the Overview effect.
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🥃 CTC happy hour in NYC on 9/9! RSVP here: https://pp.events/av7Kg7Ev
🎸Support Climate Tech Aid 2022: https://lnkd.in/gXuUG8s9

“The overview effect is an example of being exposed to something, perhaps one of the largest things possible, which is the entirety of the Earth all at once. It’s ‘awe’ in one of the grandest scales imaginable.” -Benjamin Grant, Founder, Overview

🍹 What we drank during the episode: 🥥 Harmless Harvest

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🐣 Nearmap
🐣 Whole Foods Market
🐣 PLANETARY COLLECTIVE
🐣 Impossible Foods
🐣 SpaceX
🐣 Maxar Technologies
🐣 Planet
🐣 Plenty®
🐣 Sir Kensington's

08/17/2021

CTC Ep. 4 w/Lisa Dyson, PhD, Air Protein is here!
📻 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gDxeqqfW
📻 Apple: https://lnkd.in/gbpcgMgn
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🥃 CTC happy hour in NYC on 9/9! RSVP coming soon!

Join Lisa and I as we drink kombucha (both regular and hard!) while discussing how to make juicy steaks from thin air, black holes, time travel, the role Lisa’s family played in her becoming an entrepreneur, how Lisa became a vegetarian, and much, much more!

🍹 What we drank during the episode: Health-Ade and Boochcraft

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🐣 Beyond Meat
🐣 Miyoko's
🐣 Whole Foods Market
🐣 Boca
🐣 Impossible Foods
🐣 Luminix, Inc.
🐣 Unreasonable Group
🐣 Atlassian

08/03/2021

CTC Ep. 3 w/Austin Sendek, Aionics, Inc. is here!
📻Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/67FM9G0GjZ5qhQOAqfxFEV?si=C4Lb8r0_Qkec8-8y0zkQDg&dl_branch=1
📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-tech-cocktails/id1576295837?i=1000530809871
📝 Subscribe: https://climatetechcocktails.substack.com/
🥃 CTC happy hour in Oakland, CA August 12th! RSVP here: https://pp.events/aaN7Qbbj

“Spotify tells you the music you’re gonna like, Amazon tells you stuff you’re gonna buy, Netflix tells you which movies you’re gonna watch. All this is doing is saying ‘Hey, scientist, you tried these things and they didn’t work, you tried these things and they did work, here’s something you probably never would’ve thought of, but we think it’s gonna work.” -Austin Sendek, Founder and CEO, Aionics

Join Austin Sendek and I as we drink Old Fashioneds while discussing the role of AI in climate and the future of humanity, how Austin created the Hellabyte, what it’s like growing up in Yreka, metal music, Arnold Schwarzenegger policing Santa Monica bicyclists and much, much more.

🍹 What we drank during the episode: Old Fashioned

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🐣 Yotta Energy
🐣 Energy Vault SA
🐣 Fervo Energy
🐣 Resonant Link
🐣 Nitricity
🐣 Cuberg
🐣 Form Energy, Inc.
🐣 QuantumScape
🐣 SOURCE Global
🐣 Twelve

07/22/2021

Check out CTC Ep.2 w/Andras Forgacs, Modern Meadow!

📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3wKa6TULYPzbLKlxMYEzAU?si=4GKXO9iJRLa-mnFE9ass8g&dl_branch=1
📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-tech-cocktails/id1576295837
📝 Subscribe: www.climatetechcocktails.com

“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day. They’ll be in our footwear, our apparel, and our furniture.” -Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Director, Modern Meadow

Join Andras and I as we sit down for his first on the record conversation after closing a $130MM Series C and passing on the CEO baton at Modern Meadow. We enjoy Hendrick's & tonics while discussing his journey of co-founding not one, not two, but THREE companies with his "mad scientist" father, the world of bio-fabricated materials, and his future plans.

🍹 What we drank during the episode: Hendrick’s & Tonic

Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣 Zymergen
🐣 Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.
🐣 Full Harvest
🐣 Eat Just, Inc.
🐣 Perfect Day
🐣 Beyond Meat
🐣 Impossible Foods
🐣 New Harvest
🐣 Clara Foods®

🤝 Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to [email protected]

Enjoy the show!

07/20/2021

🙌 CTC Ep. 2 w/ Forgacs , is here!
🎧 Listen:
📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HuyogXev1Tu8Qc4UIbfDS?si=9c2b3427d3a74f87
📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modern-meadow-andras-forgacs/id1576295837?i=1000529408659
📝 Subscribe: www.climatetechcocktails.com

“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day. They’ll be in our footwear, our apparel, and our furniture.” -Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Director, Modern Meadow

Join Andras and I as we sit down for his first on the record conversation after closing a $130MM Series C and passing on the CEO baton at Modern Meadow. We enjoy Hendrick's & tonics while discussing his journey of co-founding not one, not two, but THREE companies with his "mad scientist" father, the world of bio-fabricated materials, and his future plans.

🍹 What we drank during the episode: Hendrick’s & Tonic

🤝 Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to [email protected]

Enjoy the show!

07/12/2021

Excited to launch my podcast Climate Tech Cocktails tomorrow!

climatetechcocktails.substack.com

Did you know that the yearly spend on movies that feature fusion is more than the yearly spend on fusion R&D?!?

Hear all of this and more with my first guest Bob Mumgaard, Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). Join Dr. Bob and I as we sip on Dark ‘N’ Stormies while discussing his past-life as a sailor, the struggles of launching a fusion company and why fusion energy is the holy grail.

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