El Naggar: Tech talent fails in climate without industry domain expertise
Mona El Naggar · Investors riff on the new era for climate investing · Oct 16, 2023 · at 26:39
Mona El Naggar discusses the pitfall of tech founders attempting to disrupt complex, entrenched industries like utilities without domain-specific experience on their teams.
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“I think what we've seen a lot is some very smart, you know, former Google engineers who can write an amazing piece of software but they're, you know, then trying to completely change the way utilities work, but not one member of the team has ever worked in a utility, understands what that's about, has ever sold to utility, etc., and, you know, making sure that we're marrying those, you know, that kind of ability to build a piece of, write a piece of software code, but then also, you know, real true understanding of what the auto industry needs, or whatever it is.”
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