October 20, 2023

#130 Financing Emerging Clean Technologies, The Incentive of Repeat Transactions, Hiring a Founding Team, & More w/ Kevin Kyer (Pyrpose.io)

59 minutes

Why you should listen:

Learn how to hire a founding team
Find out the secret to properly structured incentives to achieve repeat transactions when working in emerging markets
Learn how to communicate your offering to non-climate-nerds

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In this episode, Silas Mahner (@silasmahner) & Somil Aggarwal (@somil_agg) speak with Kevin Kyer, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Pyrpose - a direct lending platform that, using the crowdfunding laws, allows individuals to lend to companies creating clean solutions in order to deploy their technology, the user is also getting a return on their money. They specifically focus on emerging markets because of how high the cost of capital is and the unwillingness of large lending institutions to operate in those markets currently.

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Topics:
1:59 Intro
8:48 What is Pyrpose?
15:22 Marketplace Approach
18:04 Consumers and sellers
25:59 GTM
29:01 Raising on this model
32:26 Crypto and climate
35:49 Picking a founding team
42:41 Finding talent
45:46 Advice to Founders
49:16 Climate-specific PMF advice
52:23 Ideas

Links:
**Connect with Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmkyer/
**pyrpose.io
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**Twitter: @silasmahner / @somil_agg

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