I am not using the term “bullshit” for shock value. I am referencing David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs Theory where he asserts that “roughly two out of every five people are…

80 climate startup pitch decks on my desktop. 58 claim they will be doing things at scale. Most of the rest have similar goals. Typically in some variation of “decarbonising…

In 2021 I watched aghast as Nacho Gimenez, then Managing Partner of BP Ventures, spoke to a packed room about BP’s commitment to decarbonisation. This was during Carbon13’s venture builder…

Here’s a dilemma. What if the thing you’re good at is not needed? What if your hard-earned skills are making the climate crisis worse? What if you’re great at hammering,…

In September 2021 I boarded a train to Cambridge to join Carbon13’s second Climate Tech cohort. Carbon13 is a venture builder whose stated mission is to create high-growth startups that…