How to Launch Winning Climate Startups - Benjamin Tincq (Marble)

In this episode, we dive into one of Europe’s greatest climate venture studios: Marble.

Ben Tincq, founding partner at Marble, joins us to discuss how they build companies from scratch that aim to solve the hardest climate problems.

Here’s what we cover:

- Finding hard climate problems and solutions

- Recruiting great deep tech founders

- Going from “minus one to one”

- Trading market risk for technical risk

… and more!

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⌛TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Introduction

02:09 The Genesis of Marble

07:54 Building the Right Team

11:41 Picking Climate Problems

17:51 Creating Startups Systematically

23:22 Balancing Ambition and Returns

26:42 Clean Energy Abundance

30:33 Traits of Great Founders

37:43 Rapid Fire Questions

📚 STARTUPS MENTIONED

Renaissance Fusion: Fusion energy startup

Vema: Geologic Hydrogen

Stealth methane-reduction company from Marble

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