In this issue:
It’s essential for late career professionals to go back into the arena and to mentor the next generation.
How O&G firms captured carbon and released it again by selling to greenhouses and how Skytree is solving this.
The way to achieve low-cost carbon capture is scalable, mass-manufactured, and co-located with carbon demand.
Listen Time: Full Show 57:04 (no ads) | Free Preview 41:09
On today’s episode, Rob van Straten, the CEO of Skytree captures our attention with his deep wisdom on how to scale a successful carbon capture technology company.
Why you should trust him? He brings a long career of experience building and scaling companies that he parlayed into Skytree where they are currently crushing it with their modular, mass-production capable carbon capture system.
Spoiler alert, you can’t do this successfully if you’re doing it on a project basis - you need to do it with a modular system that you can mass produce (it allows for faster iteration of the design).
Learn:
How they build their team culture and value young talents
How Oil & Gas has been catching and releasing carbon for years and how Skytree is now actually solving this problem — also related, why their largest investor is the largest owner/operator of greenhouses in the Netherlands
Why you MUST set out to achieve scale from day one.
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📝 Show Notes:
Topics
00:00 Intro
03:03 Rob’s Journey Into Climate
05:57 Mentorship & the Next Gen of Entrepreneurs
09:05 Skytree's Origin and Technology Overview
15:09 The Future of Carbon Capture: Machines vs. Plants
28:30 Innovative Approaches to Carbon Capture
32:45 How They Partner with Greenhouses
38:23 Scaling Up: Lessons from the Solar Industry
41:35 Collaboration with Large Emitters
45:50 The Future of Oil and Energy Transition
48:03 The Carbon Capture Startup Landscape
Links
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