What Went Right

Hudson Hollister is co-founder and CEO of HData, the AI platform for energy regulation, bringing utilities, regulators and the wider energy ecosystem onto one system of record. He joined the SEC twenty years ago and was on staff through the global financial crisis, then spent twelve years passing a law to drag financial regulatory reporting out of the PDF era. He joins Terhi and Allison to talk about why almost every dollar of US energy infrastructure investment has to pass through a regulatory process, how large language models overturned the approach he had spent a decade and a half advocating, and what it takes to earn the trust of the most cautious buyers in the industry.

Michelle You is co-founder and CEO of Supercritical, the leading carbon removal marketplace that helps companies like Microsoft and Virgin Atlantic buy vetted, high-quality carbon removals. Before becoming a climate founder, she built music startup Songkick to over 20 million monthly unique users, raised capital from Y Combinator and Sequoia, and exited to Warner Music Group. She joins Terhi and Allison to talk about the wake-up call that pulled her into climate, what carried over from building one marketplace into a completely different sector, and what it takes to build at startup speed toward a problem measured in decades.