Super Pro Rata (VC Sunday School) + ClimateCheck Founder Cal Inman (Climate) | E1413

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sunday Double-header! First, in VC Sunday School, Jason discusses and defends his pro rata strategy (1:26). Then, Molly interviews ClimateCheck founder Cal Inman. His company analyzes and risk-rates real estate based on expected changes to the world’s climate (14:43)!

Show Notes

(00:00) Pro Rata VC Sunday School + Assessing Climate Risk
(01:26) Why some investors warn against Super Pro Rata
(08:02) Is there an advantage to having more investors on the cap table?
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(14:43) This Week in Climate Startups - Cal Inman of Climate Check
(17:49) How ClimateCheck integrates data for predictions
(23:17) How climate predictions are influencing buying decisions
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(26:14) How financial partners are responding to increasing climate risks
(30:45) Incorporating resilience preparedness into ClimateCheck
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(37:14) Next steps for ClimateCheck
(43:28) The latest from the TWIST team

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody. It is another edition of this week in climate startups before that though
0:05.4	We've got VC Sunday school and today we're talking pro rata. Not gonna lie
0:10.6	It's a little bit spicy just don't touch the pause button right now
0:14.7	Then I interview climate check founder Cal Inman basically his company assigns real estate a score
0:21.9	Based on climate risk whether it's fire flood drought
0:25.8	What have you and their kind of blow it up in the real estate space? It's gonna be a great interview and a great show stick with us
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1:26.6	All right everybody. It's time for VC Sunday school. This is everybody's a new favorite segment of the week
1:33.5	Molly is you know in her third month now. I think of
1:37.3	Meeting with companies and becoming a VC and she asked me questions and so I try to answer most candidly as I can
1:43.6	What's on your mind this week Molly?
1:45.6	Yeah, I mean this job gets more interesting every day. I have a question about
1:52.4	Pro Rada and super pro Rada
1:54.7	Yeah, and why some investors might warn founders
1:59.1	About that or even against that so like help us understand what that means if people really brand new and then why it might be a problem
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