Replay: The Story Behind Greentech Media's Founding
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We're on spring break this week. We'll be back on Thursday with our regular show.
To get you through the next few days, we’re offering up an earlier episode of Watt It Takes about the origin story of Greentech Media.
In this edition of Watt It Takes, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch interviews GTM Co-Founder Scott Clavenna about the beginning of the company, the challenges of being a startup in the cleantech world, and our recent acquisition by Wood Mackenzie.
Watt It Takes is a live interview series produced by Powerhouse in partnership with GTM. The conversation was recorded live in Oakland, California.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the show. We are posting this on a Sunday afternoon. We have never actually done that before, but we've been on spring break for the last week we're back on |
| 0:13.7 | Thursday but we wanted to get you through the next few days so we're offering up one of |
| 0:18.5 | my favorite episodes of our |
| 0:23.0 | entrepreneurship series, it's about the origin story of Green Tech Media. |
| 0:25.0 | It's with our former CEO, |
| 0:28.0 | my former boss, mentor, and very dear friend, |
| 0:31.0 | Scott Klevenna, who co-founded GTM. We've picked up so many new |
| 0:35.7 | listeners in the last year. I thought it was a good time to share how GTM came to be |
| 0:40.6 | to remind people what goes on at the company behind the voices you hear every week. |
| 0:46.4 | And if you don't already subscribe to our newsletters to get our print journalism from the fantastic |
| 0:51.0 | team over at green tech media media go to green tech media.com |
| 0:54.4 | slash newsletters you're gonna find some of Scott's writing on blockchain over |
| 0:58.5 | at gttum squared you'll also find more of Scott's occasional blockchain |
| 1:02.3 | analysis at our other |
| 1:03.5 | podcast The Interchange, which you can find anywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 1:09.2 | Now here is our What It Takes episode with Scott Quavenna, recorded at the Power House headquarters in downtown Oakland. |
| 1:16.3 | My interchange co-host, Shail Khan opens with some context, and then Emily Kirsch, the CEO of Powerhouse, |
| 1:22.1 | takes it away. |
| 1:24.2 | Scott and his co-founder Rick Thompson |
| 1:27.0 | started GTM in February 2007. |
| 1:29.9 | And the vision that they had when they started the company basically never changed over its lifetime through to today. |
| 1:37.0 | GTM was envisioned to be the leading source of market intelligence, news, and community building for the transformation of energy. |
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