Making things cheap is the best way to get climate solutions to scale. Mike Schroepfer shares the reason for his optimism behind solving key climate challenges through enabling technology that scales in the physical economy.
00:00 Intro
00:23 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox
05:20 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma
07:42 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook
11:48 Founding Gigascale Capital
15:45 Reason for optimism about our future
20:38 Exciting projects at Gigascale
24:40 People need to see things to believe
27:25 Biggest levers to positively impact climate
30:50 Cow burps — 6% of carbon emissions
35:55 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices
37:37 Offshore datacenters in the ocean
39:52 What is Gigascale's value-add?
43:25 Is it lonely at the top?
48:06 Advice for college students
51:06 How Schrep changed Philip's life
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