mtranzambetti

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Wren (YC S19) is hiring engineer #1 to help build solutions to climate change(projectwren.com)
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All of the stats about likes from the third party focus only on influencer profiles — I wonder how removing like count has affected and will affect an average user's engagement.
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I think Starbucks was founded in 1971, but I do agree the visuals for Nature's 150 year anniversary page are beautifully executed.
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> “On the question of burning in the Amazon, which in my opinion may have been initiated by NGOs because they lost money, what is the intention? To bring problems to Brazil” He is making dangerous claims without evidence while failing to
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Wren co-founder here — we ask for your email so we can send you a report on your footprint (if you choose) or come back to the onboarding flow later. We're spinning the calculator out into an open resource soon though! Finally, we just
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
> I'll assume you are a woman. Why are you assuming this person is a woman? What does that have to do with your point about prostitution reducing shootings? > sexual abstinence is compared to "going out with a loaded gun.&qu
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Hi! Thanks for putting in the time to respond to so many of the comments on this thread! You've all been in this space for so long and it's really valuable to hear your perspective. >Beware b2b with large corporates Just a note
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Hi! We are still reading replies, though a couple days late as well. That's a great point and something we're planning on doing — We're going to spin out the calculator to be its own tool separate from the sign up flow soon.
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Related: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/17/20698271/faceapp-pri... "The panic about FaceApp’s old-person filter isn’t wrong, exactly. It’s just tinged with xenophobia and devoid of contex
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Nice plug! Reminds me of this ask from Tobi Lütke at Shopify but with wind + solar credits: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1148376688423854080
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Here's the info on how we built it — Landon posted about this a few hours ago: > We use data + research from Berkeley's cool climate lab ( https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/publications ) The main model is maintai
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Ivy walls are very beautiful. Might be hard to do at scale + also apparently difficult to maintain but I wouldn't know
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We're big into tree planting :)
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Super cool ideas here. It'd definitely be fun to offer consumer level carbon capture tech, but the main reason we're starting with established project partners is that they have verifiably offset carbon. Can you elaborate on how t
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Yes, we've spoken to many (i.e. UC Berkeley's Cool Climate, Nori, and Pachama) who have deepened our understanding of the space and inspired us to keep building. As it turns out, the best solution to climate change is divesting fr
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Have you tried editing your footprint further in the accordion below the first six questions? There are options there to edit your diet, transportation, electricity etc. at a much more granular level (i.e. I eat meat twice a week). The firs
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Satellite imagery is definitely very powerful, and we're including it in updates for the rainforest protection projects. We'll look into providing that when we have reforestation projects :) Here's a tweet from a user with a
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Mimi from Wren here: 1. You can change info about your transportation habits + electricity usage in the footprint breakdown below the first six questions. Those top level questions have the largest impact on the delta between your country&#
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Oh great to know. We recently added in support for metric conversion and weren't familiar with the standard for mpg to metric. We'll change that!
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Oh got it. Yes, we'll add in an ability to checkout with debit via an IBAN / Paypal soon. Will keep you posted!
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Oh perfect. We're using Stripe and accept Debit Cards currently. The credit card wording we're using is pretty confusing, we'll change that!
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by mtranzambetti 7y ago
Mimi, Wren co-founder here. What payment methods are most convenient / common for you?