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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with venture capitalist John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins and author of the recently published “Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.” Doerr also authored 2018’s bestselling “Measure What Matters.”
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0:00.0 | This is Master's in Business with Barry Reynolds on Bloomberg Radio. |
0:08.4 | This week on the podcast I have, yes, an extra special guest. |
0:13.5 | John Doerr of the famed venture capital from Client of Burkins is here to discuss all things |
0:20.2 | venture capital and climate related. |
0:22.8 | He has a new book out. |
0:24.5 | That's really quite interesting. |
0:26.7 | We talk about everything from crypto to Tesla to beyond meat to all of the opportunities |
0:35.8 | that exist in order to help moderate and reduce carbon in the atmosphere and the potential |
0:43.8 | climate crisis that awaits us if we don't change our ways. |
0:48.1 | So Doerr is a venture capitalist. |
0:49.8 | He invests money in order to generate a return. |
0:53.0 | These aren't just finger wagging, be green for green sake. |
0:57.4 | He describes their venture fund, which they put nearly a billion dollars into it 10 years |
1:03.4 | ago. |
1:04.4 | Now it's worth over three billion. |
1:06.4 | That's how successful the returns have been. |
1:09.2 | He describes the climate crisis as a multi trillion dollar opportunity. |
1:14.8 | Yes, we need to do something in order to make sure we leave our children and grandchildren |
1:19.2 | a habitable earth at the same time, there is a massive opportunity in everything from |
1:26.2 | food to electrical grid to transportation on and on and on. |
1:31.0 | It really is quite fascinating. |
1:33.2 | Somebody like him sees the world from both perspectives from the, hey, we want to make |
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