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Co-founder & MD @ Climactic, former Chief Strat Officer @ Lyft, DJ, inner growth seeker, VC @ Mayfield, and founder CEO @ fitmob (now ClassPass) and Snapfish
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So happy for my dear friend Jessisa Scorpio and Sam Zaid for this huge milestone for GetAround - overnight successes requite a lot of overnights : ). And the journey is well worth it 🙏
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Looking for a seasoned VP Engineering at Populus - the leading mobility operating system for cities. They raised a big round and are expanding despite the economy. They help solve congestion and emissions - 50 cities already and growing. jobs.lever.co/populus/29146b
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Great event on Driverless vehicles - come join us!
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Join us on Oct 13th for our first in-person event on The Future of Driverless Vehicles + happy hour 
Space is limited! Register at: eventbrite.com/e/the-future-o
We'll be joined by the foremost policy experts & regulators of autonomous vehicles from @californiapuc and @SFMTA_Muni
Space is limited! Register at: eventbrite.com/e/the-future-o
We'll be joined by the foremost policy experts & regulators of autonomous vehicles from @californiapuc and @SFMTA_Muni
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At Climactic we believe that businesses are key to fighting climate change - Today John Kerry outlined the First Movers Coalition underway
65 top global companies have signed on to pledge to buy tech that reduces carbon before its mainstream - so important 👊🏽
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excited to support this initiative to bring general tech talent to Climate Tech - BOOM!
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After nearly a year as an invite-only network, today we're excited to open up Climate Draft to everyone who wants to learn about climate tech and connect with top venture-backed startups decarbonizing the world!
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After nearly a year as an invite-only network, today we're excited to open up Climate Draft to everyone who wants to learn about climate tech and connect with top venture-backed startups decarbonizing the world!
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Mr Al Gore is the guy who convinced me to dedicate my life to fighting climate change - when I heard him at TED 2006. Full circle at climate week nyc 🙏👊🏽
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Amidst the record heat, I'm excited to officially launch Climactic with - read all about it and our first way "cool" investment here...
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We just closed our $23M Series A round led by to bring electrification to the RV industry, starting with a seamless, connected travel trailer reimagined for the electric age. Read more: lightshiprv.com/blog/series-a
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There is a river of joy flowing inside of you. Find it, go there, and drown in it - Michael singer
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You change the world when you change yourself
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If 80,000 pounds of sustained weight loss ⚖️ taught us anything, it’s that physicians are 🗝 to fighting obesity. Until today they’ve lacked the tools, teaching, and tech, to do so. Introducing: 's holistic medical care.
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It's the 10-year anniversary of my first book, The Startup of You.
Today a new edition is available everywhere.
startupofyou.com
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#UncommonGround with Van Jones, has been nominated for a Webby Award in News and Politics! Visit vote.webbyawards.com to help my friend Van win the 26th Annual Webby People's Voice Award! 🏆 #WebbyAwards
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I am honored to announce that the #UncommonGround Podcast has been nominated for a Webby Award in News and Politics! Visit the link below to help us win the 26th Annual Webby People's Voice Award! 🏆 Voting is open until April 21st! #WebbyAwards
vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/
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Calling on peeps inClimate Change who are interested in transitioning to investment. Material Change Institute is accepting applications for their 2nd class, a 1 year exec program for under-represented investors. Apply here, materialchange.net. Deadline is April 30, 2022.
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Amazing COO opportunity at Enara - the obesity mgmt platform where I joined the board and made my largest personal investment....
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Sitting at CMU today with the Eng School leadership and realizing that every engineer will need to be a programmer and have AI as a toolset to be successful. Engineering will envelop Comp Sci going forward.
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So tragic RIP Taylor Hawkins
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Congrats to the Mashouf sisters! Excited for Climactic to back them!
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Join me to commit to the economic empowerment of Black communities. I'm pledging $100,000 through career opportunities, investments and donations by 2030. the100kpledge.com/pledge/raj-kap
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Last year we outlined why and how the long boom of climate tech was just getting started. Well, it got started, it got funded (2–3x the previous year), and the scaling is in full effect: the 2020s are shaping up well to be the Decarb Decade.
Here’s our top 10 for this year👇🏽
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Our new adventure has officially begun....
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Proud LP in VSC Ventures. This will be a game changer for startups
cc: Vijay Chattha, Jay KapoorNYC, VSC
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The largest nonprofit for youth to take social action - DoSomething - is hiring a VP Product to help us reimagine and scale impactful, youth-led campaigns and programming using web, mobile and other platforms. If you know of someone have them apply!
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DoSomething.org is seeking an ambitious, highly-experienced Vice President, Development who has a passion for youth-led social change and fundraising to help us activate and catalyze youth for systemic social impact. Learn more and apply today.
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Air conditioning accounts for 10%+ of all electricity usage and adoption is expected to triple! We need to keep innovating heat pumps, especially usage of CO2 as the refrigerant vs hydrofluorocarbons. HFCs alone could increase global temp by .4%.
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Arnold makes some excellent points.
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The UN IPCC affirms "it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land."
The new report—signed by 195 nations—is their sixth encyclopedic analysis of the state of climate science.
Here are 5 key takeaways. [THREAD] bloom.bg/37xktWd
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A passionate, powerful and pioneering activist now has $100M to make an even more massive impact on the planet and the people who live on it. Huge congrats to and everything he did up to this point to make him such an obvious choice. google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.
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- the awakening of our population to mindfulness/spirituality and the emerging acceptance of alternate treatments (e.g. psychedelics for mental health)
What am I missing?
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- the vast majority of our citizens agreeing on climate change and that we must take action
- our leadership on human rights
- the leadership we have in technology and medicine - and our desire to share with the world
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Our country has work to do but much to be proud of:
My incomplete list of gratitude for our country:
- our handling of the pandemic and vaccinations (it could have been much worse)
- freedom of speech
- voting rights for all
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About a year ago, we drove our first fully autonomous miles in San Francisco. We've since advanced our latest AV platform from testing to driving daily on 100+ miles of SF roads. See the vehicles in action in our video. lyftlevel5.medium.com/navigating-san
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Want to help create the most advanced climate measuring satellite constellation? Join Muon Space - led by former Lyfter Jonny Dyer. I'm a proud investor : )
muonspace.com/careers
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Help spread the word: From May 24 until July 4, Uber and Lyft will offer everyone in America free rides to and from COVID-19 vaccination sites.
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