Ventures

Full Interview with Joe McDonald, co-founder & CEO of @temenergy

He joins the show for the first time, since closing a $75M Series B to build the future of energy infrastructure.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro & Joe’s background

03:45 The electron cost

07:20 Risk of countries being “tourist states”

10:55 How tem is building Stripe for electricity

14:30 The three-part playbook to fix energy

17:45 tem’s legendary LOTR-inspired culture

20:10 The “Heartbeat Model”

22:40 $75M Series B, UK & global expansion

25:05 Preparing for new utilities

27:15 Company-market fit, remote-first teams & the massive opportunity

Special Double Op-ed today

It's Tuesday, 24th March and Today on VENTURES we have an outstanding line up.

On the show today:

• Joe McDonald: Founder and CEO, tem
• Mario von Bassen: Co-Founder and CEO, Wavebird
• Matthew Cortland: Founder, GuinndexAI
• Jo Marini: Founder, Mothership Materials
• Lodovico Carini: Investor, DTCP
• Jonny Inglis: Founder, Winedrops
• Lyall Davenport: Founder and CEO, SKN Systems
• Luana David: Investor, Supernode Global

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Today's oped explaining the history of EU-INC

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It's Thursday, 19th March and Today on VENTURES we have a star-studded line-up.The Daily Op-ed: A Short History Of The EU’s European Company: https://virajacharya.substack.com/

On the show today:

Josh Goldman: COO, VEEDSagar Shah: Co-Founder and CTO, TanoJacob Graubaek Houlberg: Co-Founder, EvertraceEddie Brown: Co-Founder and CEO, Astron SystemsDr Max Werner: Founder and CEO, Hades MiningCarmel Rafaeli: Founding Partner, The TableJesse Heasman: Investor, Prefcap and Founder, Soapbox

From the intricacies of jet engine maintenance at GE to the cutting edge of climate-tech investing, Sam Baker is on a mission to build an economy that operates within planetary boundaries. In this deep dive, the Planet A investor breaks down why the climate crisis is a solvable engineering challenge, provided we can solve the "human problem" of global collaboration.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Introduction

01:03 - Why Poland is the most bullish place for European re-industrialisation

04:45 - Breaking down the physics: How a jet engine works (Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow)

06:21 - The mechanics of Scramjets and super-high-speed propulsion

07:56 - Climate vs. Resilience: Is the crisis solvable or are we just mitigating disaster?

11:54 - Why Sam left a corporate career at GE to follow the "scientific lens" of Planet A

15:22 - The spiritual and philosophical side of being an engineer in a complex ecosystem

18:30 - The race to exit the petroleum-based society before the tipping point

20:30 - Technology vs. Humans: Why the "collaboration problem" is Sam's biggest worry

22:03 - Investigating the fusion supply chain: Tritium production and power provision

24:00 - Space tech and the planetary thesis: asteroid mining and solar sails

25:51 - Large deployable structures: Unfolding the future of orbital data centers

28:52 - China strategy: Pairing European intelligence with Chinese hardware OEMs

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Assia Kasdi is doing the impossible: engineering alternatives to the universe’s rarest elements in a "cooking pot" at sub-boiling temperatures.

We explore the "alchemical" breakthrough of substituting platinum with earth-abundant copper and why the periodic table shouldn't be viewed as a set of fixed properties

Timestamps:

0:00 - Philosophy of Milvus Advanced

2:47 - Why an element's property is an environment, not a fixed state

4:18 - Inventing substitutes for Indium and Platinum during a PhD

6:48 - Unlocking silver-level conductivity in pure copper through nano-structures

8:27 - Debunking chemical theory: Making the "impossible" nano-alloy

10:31 - The crisis of finite minerals: Why metals don't rejuvenate like fossil fuels

12:26 - The Milvus Legend: How a red kite in Oxford inspired a breakthrough

15:34 - Proving the alloy: The two-shot microscope moment that changed everything

18:12 - Beating the Platinum group: Validating 1,000-hour durability tests

20:47 - Rebuilding the industry around "engineering functions" instead of mining

21:44 - The "Cooking Pot" principle: Synthesising materials at low temperatures

23:29 - The challenge of maintaining nano-structures at industrial scale

Renato Circi and Rafaël Michali spent four years in a central London lab, failing 300 times before they saw their first hour of successful data. Now, the Sava co-founders are stepping out of stealth to explain why continuous molecular monitoring is the missing "foundational model" for human longevity. We dive into the chemistry of micro-sensors, the "one-way door" decisions of hardware manufacturing, and why the future of health is a sensor on every arm

Timestamps:

[00:00] - Defining the centrepiece of health

[08:34] - Sava vs. Zoe

[10:12] - The "Atoms" problem

[13:26] - Bridging the gap

[15:35] - Building a lab in London

[17:16] - The Co-CEO model

[22:14] - Shifting from 7 years of R&D

[25:22] - The "Trace 42" breakthrough

[28:14] - The 15-day cycle

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