Doerr: Carbon accounting will be a more important currency than Bitcoin
John Doerr · How I Bought 12% of Google for $12M; How VC is Fixing Climate Change | John Doerr Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Feb 21, 2022 · at 29:49
John Doerr discusses opportunities in software and enterprise climate tools, predicting universal adoption of carbon accounting.
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“Everyone will do carbon accounting. Governments will do carbon accounting. They will score legislation for carbon. It's a new currency, a more important currency, I dare say, than Bitcoin is.”
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