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Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week

Catalyst · 1 May 2025 · 44m

What this episode covers

Host Shayle Kann interviews Mike Schroepfer, co-founder and partner at Gigascale Capital and former CTO of Meta, and Nick Chaset, CEO of Octopus Energy US, at a live event in San Francisco. They discuss the challenges of building successful consumer climate tech products, emphasizing that products must either deliver a delightful user experience or significant economic savings to gain adoption. The panel also plays a game categorizing trends like data center load growth, nuclear fusion, and carbon removal as overhyped, underhyped, or hyped just right, while debating the impact of AI and current political policies on the sector.

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