#927 Why Regenerative Tech Needs to be the Future with Tom Chi, Google X Founder & author of Climate Capital

What if green technology was actually just more profitable?

Today, we're talking to Tom Chi, Google X Co-Founder and Founding Partner at At One Ventures, about his new bestselling book, Climate Capital. We discuss why the physical world is a more predictable investment than software, how his firm identifies the 30 industries responsible for over 90% of planetary damage, and why making clean technology the most profitable technology is the only climate strategy that actually scales.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

To learn more about At One Ventures, check out their website here.

About Tom Chi

I am an investor and inventor that has been developing and shipping new tech for 30 years. From deep science and engineering research in astrophysics and advanced robotics to consumer tech like email and web search, through to advanced consumer tech like the self driving car, I've contributed to the development many technologies that have been difference makers. Part of the founding team of GoogleX, I headed up the product experience team and helped to ramp the group from 6 up to 300 people. Taught over 10,000 people rapid prototyping in person, and many more online. Founder of At One Ventures which is focused on helping humanity become a net positive to nature (a task that I'm pretty sure will take 200-500 years to accomplish) by backing disruptive tech that brings radically better unit economics paired with radically better environmental economics. As we learn how to crack the critical problems, I spend time sharing what we are learning through free talks, courses, coaching, etc.

About At One Ventures

At One Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in a world where humanity becomes a net positive to nature. We do this by backing companies with early-stage disruptive deep tech that has the potential to upend the unit economics of established industries while dramatically reducing their footprint on the planet, or pioneering industries that are actively regenerative.