gustaf

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by gustaf 2y ago
I definately have never donated to Donald Trump and would never. It would have been easy to google tech for campaigns https://www.techforcampaigns.org/ .
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by gustaf 4y ago
I work as a group partner at Y Combinator. Over the last 48 hours I've talked to numerous founders of YC companies who told me they can't make payroll to their employees next week. In many cases they had raised millions of dollars
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by gustaf 4y ago
Making the world cut demand for concrete might actually sound dramatically harder than making zero-emission concrete. (and both are extremely hard!)
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by gustaf 4y ago
We are big believers in Nuclear energy, and it's part of the RFS. But many other sectors need to be electrified for nuclear power to have its decarbonization impact: buildings, industry, transportation etc.
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by gustaf 4y ago
Which ideas are doomed to fail? I would love to hear your feedback
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Y Combinator Request for Startups: Climate Tech(ycombinator.com)
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Heart Aerospace (YC W19) Regional Electric Airplane 2022 Presentation(youtube.com)
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by gustaf 5y ago
This isn't correct. SAFE isn't a debt instrument - its a right to own shares in a future round. You are probably thinking of convertible debt.
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by gustaf 6y ago
Congrats on the launch Alex - very happy for you and everyone you will be able to serve! /Gustaf
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by gustaf 6y ago
Very excited about this! Hoping more firms will make this decision
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The Work-from-Home Shift Shocked Companies–Now They’re Learning Its Lessons(wsj.com)
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by gustaf 6y ago
I have both a Facebook portal and a Sidekick (I work at YC) and I find there to be a huge difference between the UI of the Portal and how I use my Sidekick. Before YC I worked at Airbnb and before that I worked at Voxer which was a pioneeri
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by gustaf 6y ago
Considering the value of Jika I'm surprised it's not higher price.
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by gustaf 6y ago
In the Summer 2020 batch every company is remote. My guess would be that 25% of the companies in the batch are currently based in the bay area.
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by gustaf 7y ago
You are right. Design is now a first class citizen thanks to Zain Ali joining YC as designer in December. Lots of more things in the works https://twitter.com/zainali?lang=en
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by gustaf 7y ago
I hope my answer didn't come off as ignorant to the COTAP story - I'm sorry if it did. Thanks for sharing the backstory on Cool Effect. Their effort on marketing to me also reflect the type of marketing that don't work. After
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by gustaf 7y ago
Great idea. This is what Pachama uses to base their analysis on. https://www.pachama.com - They did YC winter 2019.
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by gustaf 7y ago
This is a really good point. The goal of both Wren and COTAP is to have the most impact solving climate change. Having the most impact doesn't have to mean you charge the lowest fee - but it does mean removing the most amount of CO2. I
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Y Combinator-backed Project Wren is aiming to make carbon offsets more consumer(techcrunch.com)
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Prometheus Fuels (YC W19) turn solar and wind power into gasoline(sciencemag.org)
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by gustaf 7y ago
Y Combinator funded https://www.pachama.com/ in the batch of YC. They're building a marketplace of carbon credit to enable exactly this. They're hiring for engineering and operations in San Francisco right now ht
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Airbnb made more than $1B in revenue last quarter(techcrunch.com)
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by gustaf 8y ago
The reason I'm so interested in Direct Air Capture is: - It's primarily a tech solution which allows for scale. If you build one Machine you can build a million. It won't actually require very much space, it need access to ch
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by gustaf 8y ago
People are. But that's just one bet. There are lots of components in the ecosystem needed to make everything succeed
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by gustaf 8y ago
Yes, you are correct. Cheap energy is the main input to Direct-Air-Capture. Overflow energy from Solar and Wind is a great source of that.
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by gustaf 8y ago
I agree that political action is incredibly important. Carbon tax, carbon incentives etc. I don't believe we need to change our political system in order to stop climate change. And if we had to that would make it far more difficult to
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by gustaf 8y ago
This is great. We need a verified system where know exactly where each dollar is spend and how many CO2 tons are saved per dollar spent
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by gustaf 8y ago
I love those podcasts. You should all listen to them. They are right that we have all the technologies we need to reach 1.5 degrees C. However we need massive acceleration of implementation of those technologies. Like a 10x improvement. We&
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by gustaf 8y ago
Carbon Engineering and Climeworks are two incredible companies working on Direct Air capture and Air-to-Fuel and we'd like to fund more companies like them. There are less than 5 companies worldwide that are serious about getting Direc
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by gustaf 8y ago
This is Gustaf from YC. I wrote the first Carbon Removal RFS. Planting tree is actually a great carbon removal technology. Unfortunately most forest owners in the world don't know or don't have incentive to care the about the carb

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