Iceland - Your Company's First Commercial Plant

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I love the way entrepreneurship can evolve by plan and also sometimes just by happenstance, by luck. I can confirm over the last 15 years the really big breakthroughs were a serendipity. Iceland became the destination for your first commercial plant not just because there was geothermal power there,. but because of a chance meeting in Marrakesh, you had with the wife of Iceland's president.

The carbon-capture industry notched a breakthrough in early 2023, when Climeworks became the first company to be third-party certified for taking carbon out of the air and mineralizing it underground. Climeworks co-founder and co-CEO Christoph Gebald is now racing to scale this new potential, from Iceland to Oman to the United States, by convincing investors, corporate partners, and governments to support a new pillar in the quest for net-zero goals. Christoph points to both serendipity and learning from mistakes as key in helping Climeworks navigate the steep path required in addressing climate-crisis.

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