Our site visit last year to @Holcim’s Höver cement plant, where portfolio company @CoolPlanetCPT completed their pilot CO2 capture project. CPT are working with Hereon, part of @helmholtz_en, to commercialise their proprietary membrane technology after a decade of development!
Our team annual retreat earlier this year in Myoko Kogen, Japan, the location of our sister “Project Snowcat”, a ski redevelopment project started before Covid, separate from our core Audacy focus on climate tech. What better way to kick off 2023 and get to work!
Since 2011 Peter Thiel has been giving out $100K to college students to drop out and start a company.
Forbes wrote, "Thiel Fellows will create lesser successful companies than degree holders."
10 yrs later, they've founded some of the most breakthrough companies of the decade:
Competition can be an effective motivator, but don't let it choose the problem for you. Don't let yourself get drawn into chasing something merely because there's a lot of competition for it.