Entrepreneurs for Impact #192: Evan Caron, Co-founder of Montauk Climate — Venture Studio Business Model. Incentivizing Top Talent. AI Using 10% of World's Power. Parametric Climate Insurance Innovation.
Montauk Climate is a venture studio that launches and grows startups in the mobility, adaptation, energy, decarbonization, and sustainability sectors.
Evan is a serial founder, power trader, board member, and investor with 20 years in the energy sector, including roles as Head of Venture Investing at Riverstone, a $40B energy investment and infrastructure firm.
In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways and much more.
- How a venture studio works
- How he incentivizes experienced corporate executives to help build and lead the startups they launch
- Why compute is the current of the future, and how AI could be using 10% of global power in the years to come
- Why adaptive insurance using IFTT parametric functions is needed in a future disrupted by climate change
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Montauk Climate - https://montaukclimate.com
Evan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanc1
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