I had an amazing time at the Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle earlier this month. It was a pleasure to talk about how to take “moonshots in climate” with 280 Earth’s John Pimentel, ARPA-E’s Evelyn Wang, and Bloomberg Reporter Michelle Ma.
As we discussed, bringing big, bold ideas to life is a relay race. Radical innovation requires different expertise, funding models, and types of organizations at each phase to be successful, and it was great to have each perspective represented onstage.
Technologists and entrepreneurs like me are incredibly grateful for the work that organizations that ARPA-E do to produce groundbreaking research, as it’s crucial for sparking the technologies and products that organizations like X, the moonshot factory create. Once these early products are proven to be viable, the next stage is building and scaling—which X graduate 280 Earth is now doing in their direct air capture work and mission to bring the world’s C02 levels back to pre-industrial times.
Exchanging approaches and insights to tackling climate challenges with industry experts at different stages of the relay race was inspiring, and I’m excited to channel this energy and momentum into our next phase of work at Tapestry. Thanks to everyone who came out to Seattle in support of climate solutions!
If you’re interested in hearing our discussion, you can watch here: https://lnkd.in/gVDTExQz
