#1211 Bill Clerico On Investing MILLIONS To Solve Wildfire Crisis
Bill Clerico is an investor at Convective Capital. He is an early investor in 50+ companies, and he is the former CEO of WePay which was acquired by JPMorgan. In this conversation, we talk about Bill's investment thesis - his entire firm is focused on investing in technology, software, & hardware r…
Bill Clerico, Co-Founder & CEO of WePay
Today we're talking with Bill Clerico, co-founder of WePay which Y Combinator funded in 2009. WePay was one of the first of what are now called "FinTech" startups. In 2017, J.P. Morgan acquired WePay for $400M. Listen in to the adventures of an early fintech pioneer.
What We Look for in Founders - The Essential Qualities We Seek in Successful Startup Founders
"This article written by Paul Graham in 2010 for Forbes provides valuable information about the qualities he looks for in startup founders. Graham states that the most important quality is determination, but he also highlights flexibility, imagination, mischievousness, and friendliness. He asserts …
Igniting Change in Wildfire Risk Management
Technology and innovation are increasingly being applied to manage the growing threat of wildfires. Pete Miller, CEO of The Institutes, welcomes Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, to discuss how early-stage firetech companies are making a difference in improving community resilience, miti…
What Can We Do About Wildfires? With Convective Capital’s Bill Clerico
This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on technology-driven solutions for wildfire mitigation and climate resilience. The wildfires in Los Angeles have caused unprecedented property damage and immense har…
Building and Selling in "Impossible" Markets with WePay's Bill Clerico
Bill Clerico is the founder and former CEO of WePay, which he sold to JPMorgan Chase for $400 million, and is now founding managing partner of Convective Capital, investing in wildfire risk management and physical resilience technologies. Starting WePay during the 2008 financial crisis when VCs sai…
How to Fight Fire with Fire
Wildfires are putting more towns and critical infrastructure at risk every year. In 2024, the largest wildfire in Texas history spread rapidly toward the town of Borger until it reached the edge of town and just… stopped.
The town was spared because months earlier the Borger Fire Department had de…
Is This the Future of Fighting Wildfires?
In wildfire response, speed is everything. By the time firefighters reach many fire starts, the fire is already too large to easily contain. In 2018, the Camp Fire showed how quickly a small ignition can turn into a catastrophic disaster—destroying an entire town in less than a day. That is why man…
What we learned about resilience from Y Combinator
What does it take to build something that survives? In episode one of the Disasterproof Podcast, hosts Kat Mañalac and Bill Clerico sat down with Y Combinator co-founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston to find out.
From the 2008 financial crash to COVID-19 to the current AI moment, Paul and Je…
SpaceX IPO, The Erdős Problem, Spotify CEO Joins | Alex Tabarrok, Bill Clerico, Alex Norström, Jordan Schneider, Christina Lee Storm, Erik Bernhardsson
(01:25) - SpaceX IPO
(12:37) - Anthropic Revenue Surges
(17:31) - OpenAI Solves the Erdős Problem
(27:53) - Alex Tabarrok, a Canadian-American economist and professor at George Mason University, co-authors the Marginal Revolution blog and co-founded Marginal Revolution University. He discus…
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