Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good. Today we bring you John Delaney - former Congressman, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forbright Bank - a mission-driven commercial bank committed to financing sustainable businesses and clean energy projects for a low carbon economy. In this conversation, FT columnist and author Gillian Tett asks John about America’s unprecedented Inflation Reduction Act - and whether it could be repealed by a republican administration. They also talk about how to build a pioneering US climate economy, without dependence on Chinese supply chains, and whether the US or Europe is a better environment for climate tech founders to build.Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc.Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING. Please note: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good. Today we bring you an interview with Nathan Blecharczyk, the co-founder of Airbnb. Airbnb is one of the biggest technology success stories of the last 20 years and, at the time of recording, they have a market cap of 90 billion dollars.Airbnb is the ultimate ‘Giant Idea’: when they started the idea of staying in a stranger’s home was unthinkable, and 14 years later they’ve had over a billion stays. But it didn’t begin with a grand vision and there were plenty of false starts. In this interview, Nathan talks about the power of purpose, and specifically how Airbnb’s values helped them survive a series of crises including a racism scandal involving hosts, guests trashing apartments, and losing 80% of their revenue in 8 weeks during the pandemic. Asking the questions here at the Giant Ideas summit was CNBC and Sky News anchor, Wilfred Frost.Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc.Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING. Please note: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good. Today we bring you an interview with John Browne. Lord Browne is the former CEO of BP and now one of the world’s most prominent climate tech investors. He has served on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Intel, DaimlerChrysler, and SmithKline Beecham.John joined BP out of university and rose up the ranks to become CEO between 1995 - 2007. He turned BP from a former national oil company into the world’s third biggest corporation. He is widely regarded as one of the top CEOs ever to emerge from the UK. Two years into his tenure as BP CEO, John was accused of “leaving the church” by fellow Big Oil executives after a landmark speech at Stanford in 1997 in which he acknowledged that climate change was manmade and called for action.These words may be uncontroversial now, but in 1997 they were both brave and very important.Today John is the Founding Chairman of BeyondNetZero, a multibillion dollar climate fund launched with General Atlantic.John has been an influential advisory board member at Giant Ventures since we started the firm. He and I previously wrote a book together, Connect: How companies succeed by engaging radically with society.In this conversation with FT columnist and author Gillian Tett, John provides a state of the union on climate change, 25 years on from his historic Stanford speech. They cover everything from climate finance and carbon markets to the role of oil and gas companies in decarbonisation. The episode was recorded shortly before the UN COP climate talks - so you will hear John and Gillian debate the UAE’s controversial role as COP host.Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc.Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING. Please note: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good.Today we bring you Ida Tin on the future of femtech. There are perhaps few more qualified to talk on the topic of Femtech than Ida - who in fact coined the term 'Femtech' in 2016. Ida is the co-founder and former CEO of menstruation-tracking app, Clue - which she originally designed to track her own cycle in the absence of any technical solutions. Clue now has 11 million users across 190 countries.In this talk, Ida discusses why Femtech matters, what today’s definition includes, why there is still a woeful response to technology for menopause and hormone tracking and why we need to keep listening to women when they tell us which problems really matter. It’s an inspiring call to action.Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc.Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING. Please note: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good. Today we bring you our interview with Mustafa Suleyman on the coming wave of AI. Mustafa is right up there as one of the most influential technologists of our time. As the founder of DeepMind - now owned by Google - he created one of the two dominant forces in AI alongside OpenAI. He’s just raised +$1BN for his new company, Inflection AI. And he’s written arguably the most important book of 2023, The Coming Wave which explores the enormous opportunities and risks of the technology he pioneered.There are some very profound ideas from Mustafa in this conversation. Although he’s clear that AI has the potential for very serious harm - and governments need to hire people who really understand technology - he genuinely believes AI will deliver what he calls an ‘era of radical abundance’. He thinks we’re entering the most productive decades in the history of humanity, with seismically cheaper energy and food.Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc.Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan aka Vector_XING. Please note: The content of this podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be considered financial, legal, or investment advice. Always consult a licensed professional before making any investment decisions.