It’s a Catalyst first-of-a-kind: our very first live event! We hosted it last Wednesday at San Francisco Climate week. In this episode, Shayle talks to Mike Schroepfer, co-founder and partner at Gigascale Capital and former CTO of Meta, and Nick Chaset, CEO of Octopus Energy US. Together they cover:

Lessons on building products that consumers love

 Over and under hyped trends, including data center load growth, carbon removal, and fusion

What areas will benefit most from the current administration

The most important, least appreciated category of climate tech

The craziest idea that just might work

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Credits: Hosted by Shayle Kann. Produced and edited by Daniel Woldorff. Original music and engineering by Sean Marquand. Stephen Lacey is executive editor.

This special Catalyst Live was sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and DLA Piper.

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