Hidden Track: Former Meta CTO's Strategy on Scaling Green Tech (Mike Schroepfer)

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Making things cheap is the best way to get climate solutions to scale. Mike Schroepfer shares the reason for his optimism behind solving key climate challenges through enabling technology that scales in the physical economy.

00:00 Intro

00:23 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox

05:20 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma

07:42 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook

11:48 Founding Gigascale Capital

15:45 Reason for optimism about our future

20:38 Exciting projects at Gigascale

24:40 People need to see things to believe

27:25 Biggest levers to positively impact climate

30:50 Cow burps — 6% of carbon emissions

35:55 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices

37:37 Offshore datacenters in the ocean

39:52 What is Gigascale's value-add?

43:25 Is it lonely at the top?

48:06 Advice for college students

51:06 How Schrep changed Philip's life

Learn more about Gigascale Capital: https://gigascale.com/