Impact at Scale connected with Alex Laplaza to discuss early-stage impact investing and what technologies are currently exciting him.
Alex is a Partner at Lower Carbon Capital, a venture firm that "back kickass companies that make real money slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky and buying us time to unf**k the planet." Lower Carbon's investments in leading-edge technologies include sustainable lithium mining, plasma-taming fusion magnets and electric passenger planes.
Some of the topics that Alex covered:
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The relationship between technology and policy
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A single volcano cooling the earth
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Producing better products not just climate products
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Obligations of countries
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How seeing the impacts motivated him
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Scaling impact globally
Some other titles we considered for this episode:
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VC is a tool to scale solutions with a remarkable track record
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What to do in the "break glass in case of emergency" situation
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The risk of inaction
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We dont care if our customers care about the planet
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What to do to get the attention of a VC
Read the best-effort transcript below (This technology is still not as good as they say it is…):
