Ted Power

Co-founder @usebend. Prev. @emburse, @abacus, @google. Also, fun guy.

[Ted Power @tedp]

If the SEC does pass a Scope 1+2 reporting requirement — hey, that's better than nothing. But without Scope 3, it would be easy to get emissions 'off your books.' You could shift those high-carbon activities to 3rd-party private companies.

[Ted Power @tedp]

Today the @SECGov rules on their climate disclosure policy. Sounds like Scope 3 won't be included (too bad!). I'm sympathetic to the idea that downstream Scope 3 should be treated differently, as forecasts != performance. But IMHO Scope 3 upstream should be included.

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Is this video of Chat GPT, or Google's Gemini? https://t.co/YsADTclcBP

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@Haje One of the best (and free!) things large companies can do here is to require / encourage their suppliers to set a science based target / track emissions. That would massively expand engagement amongst startups.

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@Haje Although to be fair to startup founders — there's not yet a good business case here. The founders' mentality is "climate is a champagne problem, we'll tackle that after we have product-market-fit." This won't change until sustainability is like SOC 2 — a cost of business.

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@Haje Amen! We're pivoting because of this — we created Bend (corporate cards with embedded free carbon accounting) to make it easier for startups to engage here, but there's ~no market pull amongst startups and SMBs. We're pushing up-market for this reason (https://t.co/ek8rW4UtBs)

[Bend @usebend]

We're going to be launching a new free tool tomorrow, Bend Scorecard (https://t.co/wRc1Cu8Ss4)

Answer three questions, and we'll estimate your company's emissions, leveraging a leading economic climate model with 4m+ data points. See how your company stacks up 🚀 #NYClimateWeek

[Ted Power @tedp]

@mattsornson I think we have a pretty cool Clearbit API use case for helping companies measure their emissions / climate impact using NAICs code, but we're not an easy fit with your enterprise API tiers. Would you be up for a quick chat? We're a YC-backed startup.

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Hey, fun article in @TechCrunch on @usebend —https://t.co/BS9pFdu4Md

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We're happy to share that Bend is launching on Product Hunt today! 🚀

Please take a minute to support our launch: https://t.co/5CxUnZ8XAM (it really helps!)

[Ted Power @tedp]

I'm hoping that Bard / LLM / ChatGPT quality is coming to @madebygoogle smart speakers. We use smart speakers at home, but Assistant is brittle, frequently misinterprets requests, and has latency issues. I'd happily pay for something more expressive and reliable.

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This is a great opportunity for pre-seed founders; no better people than @CharacterVC https://t.co/Kin8cWCM1B

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Yesssss @USPS glad you came to your senses, those EV mail trucks are going to be hot https://t.co/6DGVg7WMKt

[Bend @usebend]

Behind the Music, Bend Edition — our methodology advisor, Marion, deep dives on on how we're building an automated, actionable carbon accounting pipeline https://t.co/fCpTQrMOGt

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@NYCSanitation Thanks

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@NYCSanitation we're Queens residents – with the new compost bins should we put compost in a plastic bag in the bin, or just straight in the bin?

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Really excited that @harmonic_ai is measuring and reducing their emissions, and now fully net-zero, powered by @usebend — https://t.co/SYHwZN8mSi

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Great to join @james_mcwalter on the Carbotnic podcast to chat about carbon accounting for startups https://t.co/MUteSi9hWU

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Let's gooo Inflation Reduction Act

[Ted Power @tedp]

@tdechant great post @tdechant — Bend (YC S22) is aimed at holding companies and organizations accountable to credible, no bs decarbonization