Climate CEOs (formerly Entrepreneurs for Impact): Scaling Climate Tech Startups How Many Climate Tech Unicorns Exist? (And Why $4B Isn’t Enough)
From unicorn counts to fusion funding, EV myths, and mindset hacks like pronoia and PQ, this newsletter-turned-podcast dishes out rapid-fire insights for climate founders and investors.
In this newsletter-turned-podcast episode from Entrepreneurs for Impact, I cover the following:
Climate Startups & Investment
- 🦄 How many climate tech unicorns are there?
- 🙋♂️ How do I transition to a job in climate tech?
- 🏎️ The lies about electric vehicles
- 💥 2.8 billion reasons that fusion should matter to you.
- 🚫 This is why $4,000,000,000 at two firms is not enough.
- 🍺 If you stop drinking in 2050, does it matter? [climate goals]
Better Habits & Deep Work
- 😲 Choose pronoia over paranoia
- ⛅ A free therapy lesson from Stutz
- 📊 What’s your Positive Intelligence Quotient (PQ)? [Take this test]
- 🤔 “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.”
Enjoy!
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Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate innovators grow faster with new investment capital, share best practices among peers, expand their networks, and reach their full potential.
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Our invite-only cohorts of 12 executives catalyze personal development and business growth via monthly meetings, annual retreats, and 1:1 coaching and strategy calls. Today’s highly curated Mastermind members represent over $8B in market cap or assets under management.
Programs are led by Dr. Chris Wedding — 4x founder, $1B of investment experience, and Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill professor, with 70,000+ professional students taught, 25 years of meditation, an obsession with constant improvement, and far too many mistakes to keep to himself.