Pachama's Diego Saez Gil: "Building software to save nature"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Sunday Times; tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Diego Saez GIl, founder of Pachama, to talk about carbon reduction (4:00), hist first startups (6:10), Pachama’s start (12:00), building tools to catalyse climate projects (16:00), how it works (19:10), net zero pledges (22:00), when his house burned down (24:50), the carbon market (27:40), raising $90 million (32:00), and his worst day (36:00).

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0:36.9	Well, first and foremost, I don't know if you know, but my house burned down in 2020.
0:40.9	I did not know. What?
0:42.4	Yeah. Yeah.
0:43.8	Where were you living?
0:45.3	I was in the Santa Cruz Mountains in a small town called Boulder Creek.
0:51.1	Yeah, I know Boulder Creek. Yeah. One weekend, I decided to go on a camping trip with my then-girlfriend, now wife.
0:58.5	And when we came back, the house was ashes.
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