Dutta: Industry Coalitions Carry Far More Weight with Government than Solo Startup Lobbying
Shomik Dutta · This VC wants climate tech to play hardball in Washington · Oct 8, 2025 · at 21:23
Overture co-founder Shomik Dutta explains how thermal battery startups united behind Section 45X tax credits to influence policy.
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“Working in associations with other companies is incredibly valuable. We're so used to viewing competition warily, but when it comes to Like, the thermal batteries, and they're all, all of the thermal battery companies can actually bind together and actually help influence Forty-Five-X, which is what Boundary Stone helped and Tor and countless other companies go do in ways that helped. It's not just one CEO saying, here's my company, and here are my interests. Often the government will view that with some wariness. But when it's 50 companies that are coming together saying, here's thousands of employees that get to benefit, and here's customers that get to benefit, that really helps.”
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