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The Climate Venture Adventure - Ep135: Kim Zou

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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The Cycle of Venture Investments

I think we've been in a very big cycle for the last five, five or six years in venture driven by these low interest rates. And I think we're starting to see that, that come down a bit more. But yeah, that that definitely is. If you go back to the sort of previous super cycle, so 2008, nine, 10, I was actually invited by the European climate venture, sort of community. They opened their books and they gave access to data on returns. It was pretty ugly. The top quartile was producing about a 6% IRR. This is back in 2010. So we got, this is 2010, the average return minus minus 6% IR

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