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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

How Data Helps Companies Honor Their Climate Goals

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Turning a corporate climate pledge into reality is a complex endeavor. Watershed, a software startup co-founded by Christian Anderson, is committed to using data to cut corporate emissions fast. In conversation with Azeem Azhar, Christian shares the challenges of putting this dream into practice.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.

0:06.0

The A16Z podcast is an exception.

0:09.0

It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars,

0:14.0

even electric boats, eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast.

0:24.0

HBR presents.

0:35.0

Hi there, I'm Azim Azar and you're listening to the exponential view podcast

0:39.0

and every week I come together with a brilliant mind to explore how exponential technologies

0:44.0

are shaping on the future.

0:47.0

What could be more pressing on the future than the urgency to decarbonize our economies?

0:53.0

And my guest this week, Christian Anderson has made that his mission.

0:57.0

He is a co-founder of Watershed.

0:59.0

It's a software and analytics startup which enables companies to monitor and reduce their carbon footprint

1:05.0

by giving them detailed insights about emissions across their operations and their entire supply chain.

1:12.0

Now Christian started his career as an engineer with Stripe,

1:17.0

the innovative payment processing platform and he led product teams as the company exploded in size

1:23.0

between 2013 and 2019.

1:26.0

And in 2019 he founded Watershed with two of his colleagues from Stripe,

1:30.0

Avi, It's Gavitch and Taylor Francis, and has managed to get the backing of what I can only say is the glitter party

1:38.0

of angel investors and institutional venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

1:44.0

Chris Cox, one of the founders of Facebook, the Collison's brothers, the founders of Stripe,

1:50.0

Lorraine Powell, Jobs and two legendary venture capitalists,

1:55.0

John Duh from Cliner Perkins and Mike Moritz from Sequoia.

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