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Jacobs: Most 2000s cleantech companies that failed deserved to die
“Back in the late 2000, when the first time we heard the Valley of Death moniker come out, most of the things that died in the Valley of Death deserved to die. They didn't have a good proposition to the customer. They didn't have an economic proposition to the …”
Jacobs: DOE loan guarantees require massive project scale and bureaucratic endurance
“It's not just loan guarantees from the DOE, which actually needs to be for very large scale projects and for companies that have a lot of time and money to deal with the government bureaucracy.”
Jacobs: Global climate discourse overindexes on capital and ignores talent
“I am particularly concerned that the discourse, whether it's at the G seven or at COP 26 or at other conversations we have in the climate tech community, it is, it's too much about technology. It's too much about capital. It's too much about policy, including …”