Climate

“The challenge that I have with that group of investors is that oftentimes the advice that they give to founders, or the guidance that they give to founders while they're on their boards, is often not as informed as it should be, but is given as very definitive…”

“If you look at the data for how much money flows into climate in the US, like, VC is not the dominant.”

“If, I'd encourage everyone to check this, David Shore, who is a famous data scientist, tweeted out an axis. On one axis, it is, what issues Voters trust each party with more. And on the other axis, it is the sort of intensity of importance of those issues. If …”

“I would just go through there and count up how many times did he talk about sustainability and climate, and in twenty-twenty, it was, you know, a combined, like, 45 times almost. In twenty-twenty-one, he mentioned not only sustainability and climate, but he me…”

“And what we try to do is merge these worlds together, is just to say, hey, when we're in those conference rooms, realistically, we're not bringing up climate. We just aren't. We're bringing up money. And when we're in other conference rooms, we talk about how …”

“As I learn more about climate, I'm like, this is a 10 trillion dollar problem.”

“And I think the founders that I invest in and the categories I invest in self-select for uncommonly resilient entrepreneurs. If you're building in healthcare, in climate, in education, even in some of the tools serving small businesses that I invest in, like t…”

“The goal was to build a different type of investment firm that wouldn't just support our clients' capital needs for philanthropy or other purposes, but actually activate the capital while we were managing it. So seek out high rates of return, but do so in such…”

“I think in the venture landscape, it's very rare that you run into any venture capital firm these days that doesn't have some sort of focus on climate, and I think that's usually a pretty strong indicator.”