Dan Ashton

Welcome to the final post of Climate Tech 101, where the goal is to make climate tech more approachable. There are a handful of important concepts others have taught me that help to understand climate tech. If you're new to the space, I hope you can use it

Welcome to Part 3 of Climate Tech 101! In previous posts, we covered the basics of climate change, three buckets of climate tech, and the Breakout List for Climate. In this post, we’ll retro the technologies that won and lost in the past (including during the CleanTech bubble of

Welcome to Part 2 of Climate Tech 101, a simple guide to make climate tech more approachable. The first part was a climate change primer, to set the stage for future posts. This post is an intro to the different areas of climate tech, that you can use as a

Climate tech is incredibly broad and easy to overcomplicate, so I wanted to write something to help simplify. Enthusiastic newcomers often feel like they need to read a 4,000-page report or get a chemistry PhD to get started, which is not the case at all. It’s a lot

"If you join a company, my general advice is to join a company on a breakout trajectory." - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and former President of Y Combinator Joining a company that’s on a breakout trajectory has many benefits: a rapid rate of learning, talented friends,

Climate tech is fascinating. Cutting-edge science. Saving hundreds of millions of lives. Trillion dollar markets. Unknown answers. Brilliant teams. Tons of patient capital. It's exciting! Having said that, climate tech can be hard to get into. Lots of startup people explore it, then give up and do something