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As a founder of a startup in the green tech area it is fantastic to hear more and more people sharing an environmental motivation about the work they want to do
by matt7aylor 7y ago
As a founder of a startup in the green tech area it is fantastic to hear more and more people sharing an environmental motivation about the work they want to do. There are a growing number of motivated startups around with a direct environmental purpose, though they can be harder to find and a slightly different beast from the established tech companies. (Not wanting to plug myself too much but we're currently looking for a motivated developer actually https://lightfi.io/jobs https://lightfi.io/jobs )
There are also a number of environment and social impact accelerators that may be useful for finding companies or pursuing one's own ideas, we started though the EU Climate-KIC program, for example. Increasingly as well there are a number of larger corporates engaging with social impact as a driver (sometimes this can appear a little like green-washing but there are some genuine motivations behind it).
At the moment it does seem more of a growing industry, the people and the companies are there if you can keep that determination to find them. And the more developers showing and looking for a clear sense of that environmental motivation will itself push through a wider change as there is plenty of great and fulfilling work that can be done.