Supercharging Australia with Eytan Lenko
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Robert is joined this week by Eytan Lenko, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor focused on climate solutions and CEO of Boundless Earth. Taking Robert through the reasons why he sees Australia becoming a global energy superpower by 2030, Eytan also reveals his tech development approach to problems and business growth.
Prior to joining Boundless Earth, Eytan was Chair of the internationally-recognised think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. Eytan started his career in tech, including as co-founder and CEO of Outware Mobile, growing Outware to become the recognised Australian leader in mobile software development.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, since I've been in Australia, I have been aware of some incredible changes taking |
| 0:12.5 | place here, and really fast changes, really big developments in renewable energy, in electric |
| 0:17.6 | ground transport, in grid infrastructure, all those things, and I wanted to talk to |
| 0:21.5 | someone who was kind of on the inside of all that, and I came across this organization |
| 0:25.0 | called Boundless Earth, which is a kind of funding group to help start up a clean tech |
| 0:32.5 | and electric transport companies get going, and it's founded by a man called Mike Cannon |
| 0:37.7 | Brooks, who was the co-founder of Lassian software, who lives in Australia and extraordinary |
| 0:43.1 | man, and the guy who is the CEO of Boundless Earth is a man called Etienne Lenko, who lives |
| 0:48.8 | in Melbourne, and he's an absolutely amazing man. He's just, he's involved in the financing |
| 0:56.2 | in a world, the finance world and software world of how to transform the energy industry |
| 1:03.4 | and the energy system that we all live with. So really fascinating man to talk to, such |
| 1:09.0 | a thrill to have him on the show. We cover a very wide range of topics, and I think you'll |
| 1:16.2 | be fascinated by it. Please welcome to the fully charged podcast, Mr Etienne Lenko, from Boundless |
| 1:22.8 | Earth. Etienne, thank you so much for finding time to talk to us. This is really, I'm amazed |
| 1:33.5 | at the stuff I've learnt since I've been in Australia. It's been a real change. I can |
| 1:37.9 | sense a real change here. 2022 was a big 2022. |
| 1:42.8 | Shifting Floyd in Australia and I would say, yeah, getting on with it for sure. But then, |
| 1:48.7 | so was, I mean, just Boundless Earth predate that change? I mean, when was Boundless Earth set up? |
| 1:54.9 | No, so Boundless, we started talking about, so Boundless Earth is, it's a vehicle for, |
| 2:01.9 | so Mike Henning Brooks, the co-founder of Lassian, he made a climate pledge in 2021, just before |
| 2:09.9 | then saying that he was going to commit $1.5 billion towards climate solutions through investment |
| 2:17.1 | and through advocacy. And so Boundless came about as part of that pledge. So we started talking |
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