climate change

9 statements across 9 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jul 3, 2017 by Eric Feng · across every show →

Everything said about climate change, oldest first

Jul 3, 2017 negative
Opinion
Autonomous Tech Is Overhyped, Climate Tech Is Underhyped
“Most hyped, I would say autonomous. Autonomous everything. We've got autonomous chairs, we have autonomous water bottles, everything is autonomous these days. Under-hyped, climate change. I wish that we would pay more attention to the great things coming on ar…”
Eric Feng Jul 3, 2017 ▶ 21:39 20VC: Kleiner Perkins GP, Eric Feng on How The Best Funds Use Tech and Data To Find Companies, Why Entrepreneurs Start The Fire and VCs Add The Rocket Fuel & Why Consumer Is Harder Than Ever Today
Mar 2, 2020 negative
Opinion
Goldberg: Venture capital is not efficiently funding climate change technology
“I think this isn't being addressed efficiently by the venture capital industry, and I think it's kind of the defining issue of our generation.”
Mark Goldberg Mar 2, 2020 ▶ 28:37 20VC: Index Ventures Partner, Mark Goldberg on The Questions Founders Must Ask A Multi-Stage Fund Before Taking Their Money At Seed, Why Most Angels Will Lose Their Money & Why We Will See Our First $100Bn Neo-Bank Shortly
Nov 2, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eggers: Startups, not big corporations, will solve climate change
“I do think that climate change is going to be solved by technology, largely, and by people changing their daily routines, but technology is key, and I don't think it's going to be necessarily solved by the big companies. I think the solutions are going to come…”
Barry Eggers Nov 2, 2020 ▶ 7:08 20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
Jan 10, 2022 bullish
Prediction Held up
Carney: Long-Term Interest Rates Will Rise Notably This Decade
“I believe that very central banker-y answer, but I believe long-term interest rates are going to rise, notably this decade. I long felt that we were in a low for long, and I felt that for a long time. I was right about it for a long time. Now I feel that there…”
Mark Carney Jan 10, 2022 ▶ 33:54 20VC: Former Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney on Why "Only the Niche Will Survive" in Crypto, How Governments and Central Banks Retain Control in a World of Decentralised Finance & The Winners and Losers in Crypto Exchanges and NFTs
Jan 23, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wenger predicts politicians will get elected on radical climate platforms
“And I believe that climate will be that kind of thing. It'll go from something where politicians feel, oh, I can't really talk about it. There's not enough voters. I'm not going to get elected and so forth. I think it's going to go from that to something where…”
Albert Wenger Jan 23, 2023 ▶ 23:42 Albert Wenger: Elon & Twitter; Impact of SBF; Income Inequality; Will they ban TikTok? | 20VC #969 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 3, 2023 positive
Insight
Tobi Lütke: Climate change is fundamentally a solvable technology problem
“I'm quite concerned about climate change, but I'm also a hundred percent, like, we know how to solve it. It's a tech, it's a technology problem.”
Tobi L–tke Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 52:52 Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: Remote Work vs In-Person; The Benefit of Setting Constraints | E997 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 22, 2023 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2033
Seibert predicts runaway climate change is less than ten years away
“Runaway climate change is less than 10 years out.”
Jeff Seibert Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 54:25 Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Climate change priority will drop under the next US administration
“I think it's guaranteed, unfortunately, and given that it is an inevitable, it's a physics process. I worry about that. That's one of the I think likely outcomes of the next administration that will be a serious impact.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 24:00 Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Park: AI simulation can help solve wicked problems like climate change
“Simulation I do think can also be a cure for many of what we call quote unquote wicked problems.”
Joon Sung Park Jul 31, 2026 ▶ 13:35 The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
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