Climate Tech Cocktails
47 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWelcome to Climate Tech Cocktails, where we grab a drink (or two) with best-in-class climate tech founders.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
EVRNU: Stacy Flynn
April 01, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBMatt welcomes Stacy Flynn, CEO & Co-Founder at EVRNU, to the podcast this week to enjoy some impressive Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs, and to discuss everything from Happy Gilmore and Prince to the ways in which her company is reshaping fashion's environmental impact. Together, they review Stacy’s unique career trajectory and how it has her led to co-founding EVRNU - an industry leader “converting textile waste materials into ‘new’ engineered fibers, which can be recycled again and again.”
Cruz Foam: John Felts
February 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 75.3 MBWe’re in a Manhattan state of mind this week as John Felts, Co-founder & CEO of Cruz Foam, bends an elbow, sharing the waves Cruz Foam is making in the sustainable packaging. Propelled by a deep connection with the ocean, powerfully forged in childhood, John’s journey from surfer to scientist and entrepreneur has inspired a mission to provide a natural, sustainable, and easily integrated alternative to styrofoam. Cruz Foam is setting ‘a new standard for what it means to be a sustainable prod...
Modern Hydrogen: Tony Pan
January 15, 2024 20:47 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBIn this episode, we’re kicking back with a couple of diet cokes (one with gin 😜) as we dive into the life history of Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen, Tony Pan. From Taiwan to Scotland to Harvard, the brilliant Tony Pan shares the path that led him to Modern Hydrogen. After working for Goldman Sachs, Tony springboarded into the world of climate technology. Tony and his colleagues are transforming the way we utilize natural gas by turning it into clean hydrogen–point source hydrogen, ...
Brimstone: Cody Finke
November 30, 2023 05:03 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIn this episode, we drink Bill Alebrton’s version of the sneaky pete (rose + lager) with Cody Finke, co-founder and CEO of Brimstone. Cody's chemically charged adventures will react with your curiosity. He shares his time spent on a commercial lobster boat, living in his car and a tent, hiking the country’s mountains, and working on solving India’s wastewater treatment challenge. A chemist by trade, Cody is now decarbonizing cement. Tag along to learn a little chemistry, and share in the ...
Lightship: Toby Kraus
November 02, 2023 15:00 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBIn this episode, we drink a couple beers with with Toby Kraus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship. Toby, an EV OG, walks us through his love of the outdoors, his journey from Wall Street to Tesla, and how he helped build the first electric travel trailer. So pack a bag and join us as we hit the road to explore how Lightship is forging the future of the electric mobility industry.
Fork & Good: Niyati Gupta
September 19, 2023 12:36 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBIn this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Niyati Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good. Ever wondered how cultivated meat can help combat climate change? Or how hydroponics can revolutionize the way we look at food safety? This episode, we sit down with Niyati Gupta, the co-founder and CEO of Fork & Good, a startup pioneering new ways to address food safety and meet protein demands innovatively. Niyati takes us through her personal journey that brought her from Hong Kong to Harvard, f...
Ryan Kushner Interviews Matt Myers
August 01, 2023 02:02 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to a very special episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. It’s been a minute since the first episode of Climate Tech Cocktails was released, 1,051,200 minutes to be exact (2 years). To celebrate this milestone, Team CTC asked Matt if he’d be willing to sit down and chat with his climate tech colleague and close friend, Ryan Kushner. We’ve grown so much over the past two years, both online and in IRL. We wanted to provide an opportunity to learn more about ...
Regrow: Anastasia Volkova
July 11, 2023 02:24 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBIn this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Anastasia Volkova, co-founder and CEO of Regrow. Regrow’s mission is to make resilient agriculture ubiquitous. On every acre. Globally. Our vision is for agriculture to be driven by science and technology to restore the environmental balance globally to nourish the population and be equitable for everyone. Environment. People. Equity. In that order.
Zero Acre Farms: Jeff Nobbs
June 13, 2023 03:31 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Jeff Nobbs, co-founder and CEO of Zero Acre Farms. Zero Acre Farms is on a mission to remove destructive vegetable oils from the food system. And we’re not going to stop until restaurant deep fryers, home pantries, and packaged foods around the world are finally free of these harmful oils and fats. We’re grateful to have you with us, fighting the good fight with a co...
The Climate Not Too Late Show
May 18, 2023 03:53 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBFellow Climate Warriors, ICYMI: 🎥 Check out our very first Climate Not Too Late Show with Matt Myers on the YouTubes HERE featuring guests Darko Mandich, Paul Robertson and Maricel Saenz! 🎧We’re happy to announce that the audio version of the show is now also LIVE to listen to wherever you get your podcasts. 📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy, and Substack👉 🍸In this episode, we grab a drink with Darko Mandich of Melibio and Marice...
Synonym: Edward Shenderovich
April 25, 2023 01:57 - 1 hour - 70 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Edward Shenderovich, co-founder and CEO of Synonym… “Synonym is accelerating the world's biological future by developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities. We provide synthetic biology (synbio) producers – from startups to the Fortune 500 – with flexible production capacity while giving infrastructure investors access to a new, carb...
Floodbase: Bessie Schwarz
March 21, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Bessie Schwarz, co-founder and CEO of Floodbase (Formally known as Cloud to Street)… “Floodbase has pioneered the field of satellite flood tracking, with our science appearing on the cover of Nature in 2021. Our Flood Intelligence Platform has enabled the United Nations and several national governments to improve flood disaster response. We are now powering a new typ...
Vibrant Planet: Allison Wolff
March 07, 2023 03:14 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Allison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet. “Vibrant Planet harnesses data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change. Our goal is to help planners, and policymakers save lives, avoid trillions of dollars in infrastructure loss, and restore the ability of natural systems to st...
Shiok Meats: Sandhya Sriram
February 14, 2023 16:34 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB🌊🍤 Shrimp, Stem Cells, Star Trek 🚀 Orange Juice 🍊 and more! In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Sandhya Sriram, co-founder and CEO of Shiok Meats. Shiok Meats is the world’s first cultivated crustacean meat company, and Southeast Asia’s first cultivated seafood company. “Shiok” is a local slang that means fantastic, delicious, and simply, pleasure. Their mission is to bring delicious, sustainable, and healthy seafood to your table, using our technology to grow meat from heal...
Demex Group: Steve Bennett
January 19, 2023 19:59 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBFellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails. In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Steve Bennett, co-founder, and chief climate officer of the Demex Group - the first company to offer comprehensive solutions for assessing and transferring climate risks at scale. Demex uses modeling to evaluate weather risk and helps clients transfer that risk to maintain their resilience. Steve’s background as a weather person at The Weather Channel and then Scrip...
Holiday Throwback: LanzaTech: Jennifer Holmgren
December 22, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB👩✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech: “What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste. Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.” Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP...
Eco Wave Power: Inna Braverman
December 06, 2022 19:57 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBInna Braverman, co-founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power: “Offshore, the waves don’t move in one direction. Your equipment can get hit by waves that are 20 meters in height. Near the shore, there’s a phenomenon called wave run-up where they actually build near the shore, and they’re all heading in one direction. The sector should start where it’s simple, and move from there.” - Inna Braverman, explaining why shore waves are the simpler clean energy solution. 🇺🇦 Born in Ukraine, Inna was given...
Thanksgiving Flashback: Air Company--Greg Constantine
November 23, 2022 03:50 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBEpisode Notes Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis: “Imagination is everything. It’s what moves the world forward.” -Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company @Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of @Air Company, Air company’s priority is to utilize as much CO2 as possible to slow the momentum of climate change, using consumer goods in the near term as an educational tool to show the wo...
Syzygy Plasmonics: Trevor Best
November 10, 2022 17:47 - 1 hour - 63.5 MB🎧 New podcast episode: Trevor Best, co-founder and CEO of Syzygy: “Not only eliminating emissions but making energy low-cost is very important. So, the fact that we can use low-cost, renewable electricity, the fact that we can build our reactor out of aluminum, the fact that the hyper efficient lights result in a hyper-efficient reactor - all those are important factors so that we can make products at price parity with what’s out there today without producing emissions. And ultimately that...
Form Energy: Mateo Jaramillo
October 11, 2022 01:20 - 1 hour - 71 MBMateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of Form Energy, on the importance of long-term energy storage: “Lithium Ion will continue to have a very important role to play, but there remains a key function which needs to be replaced on the grid, and that is a function that is currently being provided by coal and natural gas. That is the energy demand when you don’t have wind or solar. So, that’s the kind of moment we have to solve for from an energy storage perspective.” - Mateo Jaramillo on Sca...
Mzansi Meat: Brett Thompson
September 26, 2022 23:52 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBBrett Thompson, co-founder and CEO of Mzansi Meat, on effective solutions in food systems: “I think there needs to be a bouquet of solutions. I don’t think plant-based is the only solution; I don’t think unprocessed, regenerative farming, any of those things alone are solutions - rather I think you need to add a hell of a lot of things to it. And I think cultivated meat adds to that, because there’s not one silver bullet. People want to eat meat, and this provides an opportunity… It’s abou...
Live at Techonomy (4/4)! polySpectra: Raymond Weitekamp
September 05, 2022 22:45 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBRaymond Weitekamp, Founder and CEO of polySpectra, on moving towards massless: “PolySpectra A.R. is our new augmented reality tool to give massless prototypes to people in product development. The massless mission is to leverage distributed digital manufacturing to reduce global energy usage by 25% by 2050.” Using the world’s most rugged photopolymer resins, Raymond’s company is also helping engineers print end-use components that actually hold up, reducing waste by lasting longer and bein...
Live at Techonomy (3/4)! Therma: Manik Suri
August 15, 2022 21:37 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBManik Suri, Founder and CEO of Therma, on Smart Refrigeration: “As we move into a world where we have more electrification and move off fossil fuels, we’re going to need a lot more utility infrastructure, so utilities are looking for ways to create extra capacity… We’re starting to think of refrigeration as a battery; we’ve kept that battery at one hundred percent charge for the last hundred years - now we’re starting to explore temporarily discharging that battery, and creating a network ...
Live at Techonomy (2/4)! GHGSat: Stephane Germain
July 27, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBStephane Germain, Founder and President of GHGSat, on the need to address methane emissions: “95% of what (methane) we detect isn’t acted upon today, and that drives me bonkers.” GHGSat developed the first sensor for small satellites that can detect methane (CH4) emissions and locate individual sources of CH4 from around 500km above the Earth's surface - a huge leap forward in global emissions monitoring technology innovation. Interested in sponsoring Climate Tech Cocktails (CTC)? Please...
London Tech Week (1/2)! OLIO: Tessa Clarke
June 28, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBTessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of OLIO on the size of the food waste crisis: “If it were a country, food waste would be the third largest source of greenhouse gas emission after the USA and China, and that’s because a landmass larger than China is used every single year to grow food that is never eaten.” OLIO connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home...
Live at Techonomy (1/4)! Living Carbon: Maddie Hall
June 07, 2022 12:30 - 48 minutes - 44 MBMaddie Hall, Co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, on falling in love with plants: “Our little portion of human history is small compared to all of the plant life this planet has seen.” Living Carbon’s mission is to responsibly rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the inherent power of plants. Living Carbon is growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Also, They grow faster and produce more durab...
The EVERY Company: Arturo Elizondo
May 24, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBArturo Elizondo, Founder and CEO of The EVERY Company, on his life’s purpose: “I fundamentally believe my purpose on this Earth is to help enable a shutdown of the last factory farm in the world.” EVERY exists to produce proteins that are better for people, the planet, and animals. Under Arturo’s leadership, the company has raised over $230 million dollars in capital from leading venture investors and some of the largest food companies on Earth to bring to market the world’s first animal-f...
Twelve: Etosha Cave
May 03, 2022 12:30 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBEtosha Cave, Co-founder and CSO of Twelve, on the sacrifices she made while launching Twelve: “I had no money. I was living out of my car at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.” Etosha became passionate about energy and climate change while growing up in Houston, and she went on to receive her PhD from Stanford University focusing on electrochemical approaches that could be used to convert CO2 and water into useful plastics and household cleaners. While at Stanford, Etosha co-founded Twelve,...
LanzaTech: Jennier Holmgren
April 19, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB👩✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech: “What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste. Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.” Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP...
LanzaTech: Jennifer Holmgren
April 19, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB👩✈️Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech on the premise of LanzaTech: “What we need to come to is a world where there is no such thing as waste. Where waste is feedstock or the way you make everything else.” Jennifer has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector including a proven track record in the development and commercialization of fuels and chemicals technologies. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP...
unspun: Kevin Martin
April 05, 2022 13:30 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBKevin Martin, Co-founder and CTO at unspun on the inefficiency of the current apparel manufacturing process: “It’s a $1.5 trillion dollar industry where 10-15% of everything produced every year gets burned and destroyed without ever being sold.” Unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company building custom jeans for each consumer, on-demand. Their mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing—building the future of robotic...
Toucan Protocol: Raphael Haupt
March 08, 2022 13:30 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBRaphael Haupt, Founder and Chief Toucan at Toucan Protocol on the need for an all of the above solutions approach to carbon drawdown. “Let’s unf*ck the environment…the only thing that’s clear is that the price of carbon needs to increase.” -Raphael Haupt, Founder and Chief Toucan at Toucan Protocol Toucan is working to make DeFi work for the planet by building market infrastructure to bring carbon markets to public blockchains. Toucan launched in October 2021 as the infrastructure provid...
Air Company: Greg Constantine
February 15, 2022 13:30 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBGreg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company on the importance of reaching hearts and minds to combat the climate crisis: “Imagination is everything. It’s what moves the world forward.” -Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of Air Company @Greg Constantine, Co-founder and CEO of @Air Company, Air company’s priority is to utilize as much CO2 as possible to slow the momentum of climate change, using consumer goods in the near term as an educational tool to show the world what is pos...
Perfect Day: Ryan Pandya
February 01, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBRyan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day on how nobody was working on microbe based dairy in 2014: “I will live and die never again having an idea that you can’t find on the internet.” -Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of Perfect Day @Ryan Pandya, Co-founder and CEO of @Perfect Day, a consumer biology company on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow by developing new ways to make the foods you love today — starting in the dairy aisle. Ryan, in partnership with co-founder Per...
Climate Couples: Amanda Ravenhill + Ryan Kushner
January 18, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBOn their creation Tikkun Olunch, based on the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, ”These lunches were an opportunity for us to get together once a week and ask, ‘Are you doing the most you can possibly do to make the world a better place? How can I help you think through that and how can I help you step up your game?’ -Amanda Joy Ravenhill, Executive Director of The Buckminster Fuller Institute @AmandaRavenhill, Executive Director of @BuckyFullerInst, which is dedicated to accelerating the de...
Aether Diamonds: Ryan Shearman
December 21, 2021 15:20 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB“I like to say we’re not a mission driven company. We’re not a company with a mission. We’re a mission with a company.” -Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds @RyanShearmanNYC, Co-founder and CEO of @AetherDiamonds, a startup creating the world’s first positive-impact diamonds. Ryan Shearman is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Early in his career, Ryan joined David Yurman as one of the first hires on their new Men's team, where he was responsible for overseeing...
Dandelion Energy: Kathy Hannun
December 07, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 62 MB“How is everyone not working on climate change?...In my understanding of the science, I would say it will define the lives of people in my generation.” -Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandelion Energy @KathyHannun, Founder and President of @DandelionEnergy, the largest residential geothermal company in the United States. Before founding Dandelion, Hannun was a Rapid Evaluator at X, Alphabet’s innovation lab, where she focused on finding “Moonshots”. Kathy initiated Dandelion as a...
Gradient: Vince Romanin
November 23, 2021 13:30 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB“If the next 4 billion ACs are all heat pumps, they can also decarbonize heating while we’re expanding access to AC. If they have low carbon refrigerants we can solve the refrigerant problem. Lastly, if we make sure they’re all smart and WiFi connected we can help modernize the grid at the same time and have more solar and wind on the grid.” -Vince Romanin, Co-founder and CEO of Gradient. Vince Romanin is the CEO of Gradient (@GradientComfort), which is on a mission to cool the world su...
ClearFlame Engines: BJ Johnson
November 02, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB“Globally we’re emitting about 5 Gigatons of CO2 from Diesel engines every year...so you’re looking at about 15% total emissions coming from that fuel in particular.” -BJ Johnson, Co-founder and CEO of ClearFlame Engines. BJ Johnson (@bj_johnson87) is CEO and Co-founder of ClearFlame Engines (@ClearFlameEng), which is a startup taking the diesel fuel out of the diesel engine for heavy-duty industries. BJ leads business development, fundraising, and strategic planning operations at ClearF...
Voltus: Gregg Dixon
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB“(in 10 years) The grid is a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized network taking full advantage of the network effects that we all enjoy in a modern technology stack.” -Gregg Dixon, Co-founder and CEO of Voltus Gregg Dixon (@gregg_dixon) is the Co-founder and CEO of Voltus (@voltusinc), connecting customers, investors, teammates, and the world with Voltus value, ensuring that the vision for the company, and its culture, is meeting their expectations. Gregg is a world-renowned expert...
Wild Earth: Ryan Bethencourt
September 27, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MB“The more I looked into it, the more broken the pet food industry was. It accounts for 25-30% of meat consumed in the U.S...it just makes no sense because we can make protein out of yeast, out of fungi, out of plants...and so I’m like, somebody needs to start this company.” -Ryan Bethencourt, Co-founder and CEO of Wild Earth. Ryan Bethencourt (@ryanbethencourt) is a co-founder and CEO at Wild Earth (@wildearthpets), bringing years of experience in leading, building and advising high-gro...
MicroByre: Sarah Richardson
September 13, 2021 23:47 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB“We need to make poop the new gold. We need to give new ways for poop to become the input, and for antibiotics to become the output...or for polymers or for bioplastics to become the output. That just means cozying up with bacteria, because they can do it.” -Sarah Richardson, Co-founder and CEO, MicroByre Sarah is a computationally inclined microbiologist and science communicator: she speaks charmingly to computers, bacteria, and people. Sarah grew up in West Baltimore, and after complet...
Overview: Benjamin Grant
August 31, 2021 04:37 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MB“The overview effect is an example of being exposed to something, perhaps one of the largest things possible, which is the entirety of the Earth all at once. It’s “awe” in one of the grandest scales imaginable.” -Benjamin Grant, Founder, Overview Benjamin Grant is Founder of Overview (@DOverview). Overview uses satellite and aerial imagery to demonstrate how human activity and natural forces shape our Earth. Ben’s newest book "Overview Timelapse" was released in October 2020 and named ...
Air Protein: Lisa Dyson
August 16, 2021 19:50 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB“Right now the process is so inefficient to make a steak. It takes two years to make a steak and the greenhouse gases from a cow is equivalent to a car. So it’s hugely more inefficient than it needs to be. It’s way past time to be redone, for us to figure out new ways to do it. We’re focused at Air Protein on making meat in a matter of hours and not days. Making it using the most sustainable processes on the planet. Making it highly nutritious and of course still delivering the flavors...
Aionics: Austin Sendek
August 02, 2021 22:36 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB“Spotify tells you the music you’re gonna like, Amazon tells you stuff you’re gonna buy, Netflix tells you which movies you’re gonna watch. All this is doing is saying ‘Hey, scientist, you tried these things and they didn’t work, you tried these things and they did work, here’s something you probably never would’ve thought of, but we think it’s gonna work.” -Austin Sendek, Founder and CEO, Aionics Austin Sendek (@BatteryCowboy) is the Founder and CEO of Aionics (@AionicsInc), a Silicon Val...
Modern Meadow: Andras Forgacs
July 19, 2021 23:17 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB“My hope is that bio-fabricated materials are not just going to be the province of luxury handbags years from now, but they’ll also be materials for our every day. They’ll be in our footwear, our apparel, and our furniture.” -Andras Forgacs, Co-founder and Director, Modern Meadow. Andras Forgacs is the Co-founder of Modern Meadow, a company working to transform the world of materials by unlocking the power of nature for a healthier planet. Modern Meadow’s (@ModernMeadow) BioAlloy biomater...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS): Bob Mumgaard
July 12, 2021 18:45 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB“We’re building a machine we call Spark, where you show up and you push a button. This thing turns on and it makes hundreds of megawatts of thermal energy from effectively nothing.” -Bob Mumgaard, Co-founder and CEO, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Bob Mumgaard is Co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (@CFS_energy), where Bob leads the strategic vision for the company. He received his PhD in plasma physics at MIT, focusing his work on developing techniques to measure the magnetic...