billclerico

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What I Learned About Resilience From Y Combinator [video](youtube.com)
2 points by billclerico 4mo ago|1 comments
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by billclerico 4mo ago
I sat down with Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston to discuss resilience and building things that endure at their home in Palo Alto.
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by billclerico 8mo ago
Thanks aberman! Here in the comments if I can answer any questions.
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by billclerico 2y ago
Probably the most effective thing we could do is re-imagine Smokey Bear from a "put out your campfire" mascot to a spokesperson for effective forest management & prescribed fire.
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by billclerico 2y ago
congrats!!
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by billclerico 3y ago
Also worth mentioning her new podcast (along with Carolynn Levy), The Social Radars, which is sort of a podcast version of Founders At Work: https://www.thesocialradars.com/
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by billclerico 3y ago
I’m a VC specializing in startups addressing wildfire. If I can be helpful to anyone thinking about this problem, I’m bill at convectivecapital.com
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by billclerico 4y ago
important tool for landscape management
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by billclerico 4y ago
I think it's a false assumption that when something burns in a high severity fire, it returns to a healthy state afterwards. Historically, natural fire was low severity because it was high frequency, burning through once a decade (or e
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by billclerico 4y ago
One thing I find frustrating in the discussion of wildfire is that it frequently dumbs down to one thing vs another, usually "We must treat the landscape with thinning and prescribed fire" vs "We need better firefighting reso
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by billclerico 4y ago
Pano will have a great business even if megafires are ended, since fire will always be a part of the landscape. One of their major usecases is monitoring controlled burns.
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by billclerico 4y ago
There was an enormous & destructive lightning fire in the Santa Cruz mountains in 2020 called the CZU complex: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/16/two-years-later-czu-f...
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by billclerico 4y ago
There are plenty of economic models that can support cures to recurrent issues. For example, internal sprinklers & smoke detectors have dramatically improved survivability of structure fires, but that "cure" supports a whole i
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by billclerico 4y ago
Most experts agree that 3 things are required to end megafires: Landscape management, community resilience and fast & aggressive suppression. It's a layered approach - similar to infosec models. No one layer is an effective solutio
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Can we end megafires? These companies are trying to(fastcompany.com)
41 points by billclerico 4y ago|47 comments
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by billclerico 4y ago
congrats Garry!! you are a founder's founder and will do great things at YC.
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Discussion of wildfire impact and need for funding(medium.com)
2 points by billclerico 5y ago|0 comments
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by billclerico 5y ago
The liability for prescribed burns is a big issue. If the government agreed to co-insure landowners against escaped burns, it would make prescribed burning significantly easier. But right now, landowners have less liability if they just l
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by billclerico 5y ago
This used to be true, but really no longer is with modern logging practices and regulation
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by billclerico 5y ago
The encouraging comments on these threads are reminiscent of old Launch HN at its best. Great idea, dang.
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by billclerico 6y ago
One thing that often gets overlooked with respect to payments is consumer preference (and this is actually the primary driver of cost). Why do credit cards cost 2-3% to process? Because of expensive rewards programs given to the consumers
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by billclerico 6y ago
I think it is more likely that the economics killed Concord ($20k per seat), not the route, and it appears that Boom thinks like they can deliver a luxury, supersonic experience at a far cheaper, business class price. And if transoceanic su
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by billclerico 6y ago
Boom is a YC company building a modern, supersonic passenger airliner: https://boomsupersonic.com/
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WePay launches same day payments to Chase accounts(cnbc.com)
4 points by billclerico 7y ago|0 comments
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WePay is hiring SREs and software engineers(go.wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 9y ago
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WePay is hiring software engineers and SREs(go.wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 10y ago
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WePay is hiring software engineers and SREs(go.wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 10y ago
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WePay is hiring software engineers and SREs(go.wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 10y ago
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WePay is hiring security engineers(go.wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 10y ago
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WePay Is Hiring in Analytics, Security and Engineering(wepay.com)
1 points by billclerico 10y ago

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