tedpower

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   by tedpower 2y ago

   So cool! Chris is a wizard.
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   by tedpower 3y ago

   Hey HN, we're YC S22 — let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
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   by tedpower 3y ago

   Thanks Ashwin. And if anyone has questions about working with Stripe BaaS, happy to chat about that as well — it's been great!
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   by tedpower 3y ago

   Thanks for the question! So the way that Bend works, we take a transaction, and then match it with the best available 'emissions factor'. So, for example, if you purchase something at Starbucks, we match that transaction to the St
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   by tedpower 3y ago

   Thanks :)
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   by tedpower 3y ago

   Hi HN, let us know if you have any questions!
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   Show HN: Bend (YC S22) A climate-friendly corporate card ($100 to try it)(usebend.com)

   43 points by tedpower 3y ago|13 comments
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   by tedpower 4y ago

   haha indeed — but actually, this is kind of the point — purchasing carbon removal credits is just like any other business purchase, but with a negative emissions factor. When you purchase carbon removal credits on Bend, it shows up as just
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   by tedpower 4y ago

   Thanks, ya, fair points — as orgs level-up and get more sophisticated, you might start to use Bend as the first pass, identifying hot-spots, and then doing deeper dives on the specific 'SKUs' that are being purchased.
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    ya, that's right, good point. For complete GHGP inventory reporting, customers need to estimate employee commuting separately (and we're happy to help with that; it's usually a pretty straightforward calculation, though gathe
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    We treat payroll as zero emissions. The responsibility boundary of a company doesn't include the personal consumption decisions of employees. The spend-based approach makes this pretty straightforward — if the company is buying, those
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Hi! Ya we only use full GHGP inventory data. Honestly, the hardest data to gather is clean transaction data! The Brex API returns relatively clean data. Other banks and financial institutions, via Plaid, often have pretty messy merchant and
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    We picked a price that opens up the addressable market beyond late stage and public companies. As startups, you have an unfair advantage — it’s much easier to build good carbon habits early, vs. retooling your business after having already
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Hey, good questions! You know your stuff. Re: do you have any concerns that your users might shortcut the work to produce high quality estimates of their Scope 3 emissions when you have made it so easy to get lower quality estimates? > I
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Unfortunately 'spend less' is not by itself a viable strategy for most growing companies. Companies need to invest in their growth. But companies can instead shift their spend from higher 'carbon intensity' goods and ser
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Ya, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol — https://ghgprotocol.org/ — is the universally accepted way for companies to measure their emissions. It's been around for about a decade. That being said, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol r
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Ya totally! Another way to think about it — in climate lingo, there are 3 types of emissions: First there are Scope 1 emissions, which are the emissions from burning fossil fuels directly (gas in your car, natural gas for your stove, etc.).
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    +1!
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Ya I hear you, our goal is to combat greenwashing in a few ways. We cover total emissions (vs. cherry-picking categories of emissions). We incentivize companies to take action today (vs. vague 2040 or 2050 goals). And to the degree that car
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    Ya good point — our approach is always spend-based, so the way we'd calculate cloud spend is your AWS / GCP bill * the AWS / Google carbon intensity (what we call a 'factor'). It is true that some data center region
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    Launch HN: Bend (YC S22) – Automatically measure your company's carbon footprint

    69 points by tedpower 4y ago|89 comments
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    by tedpower 4y ago

    PlanetScale is an awesome DB that handles sharding and size-balancing — plus they have an incredible free tier. https://planetscale.com/ Rust is a memory-safe systems programming language that has earned the title of most b
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    Planet Scale and Rust – two great tastes that taste great together(bend.green)

    5 points by tedpower 4y ago|1 comments
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    by tedpower 6y ago

    We use Bank of America, but I'm particularly interested in people's impressions of Ramp and Divvy
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    Ask HN: What corp card does your startup use?

    2 points by tedpower 6y ago|1 comments
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    Abacus (YC W14) Is Hiring a Product Designer(jobs.lever.co)

    1 points by tedpower 9y ago
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    Abacus (YC W14) Is Hiring a Product Designer(jobs.lever.co)

    1 points by tedpower 9y ago
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    Will the next Alexa have a camera?(medium.com)

    2 points by tedpower 10y ago|0 comments
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    What are the 4 possible outcomes of specialized AI on US jobs?(medium.com)

    2 points by tedpower 10y ago|0 comments
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    Abacus (YC W14) is looking for a designer(jobs.lever.co)

    1 points by tedpower 10y ago