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Andrew Beebe
Andrew helps build companies with category-creating entrepreneurs that are decarbonizing the global economy, electrifying all modes of transportation, and upgrading urban environments.
Why We Invested in Pyka
Flying is one of the world’s most carbon-intensive activities. And electric jets are the solution to making it more sustainable. That’s why we’ve invested in...
Why We Invested in Zanskar
Recent leaps in technology, such as crypto, AI, and the electrification of everything, have given us many reasons to be optimistic about the future. But...
Why We Invested in Halcyon
A warmer world and extreme weather affect every industry and every sector, putting at risk our food, energy, infrastructure, and the stability of the modern...
How Geothermal is Heating Up to Power the Electrification of Everything
The world is waking up to a powerful fact about the future: we need substantially more energy than anyone thought, and we need it soon.
Climate Ag’s Moment in the Sun
Decarbonizing any industry delivers benefits that go way beyond sustainability. How we cultivate soil, grow crops, and raise livestock has been in a state of tech-enabled...
The Climate Bill’s Hidden Win
The climate bill, or the Inflation Reduction Act in DC-speak, represents a sea change in American climate policy. The financial impacts on climate funding have...
10 Climate Tech Predictions For 2022
Last year we outlined why and how the long boom of climate tech was just getting started. Well, it got started, it got funded (2–3x the previous...
Cracking the Carbon Conundrum
Earlier in the year, I spelled out a broad view of the Climate Decade ahead. In this ten year period, businesses, governments, and citizens the world...
We Have Entered the Climate Decade
As we finally put 2020 into hindsight, the road ahead is uncertain. On the one hand, stock markets continue to thrive, and the economy feels...
A Modern Guide to Lean OKRs, Part III
The first steps are the hardest, and I find success in implementation is dramatically improved with a phased approach. First, plan and roll out your...
A Modern Guide to Lean OKRs, Part II
Now that you have a methodology for ensuring your Objectives and Key Results are screened against and informed by your purpose, let’s look at a leaner methodology...
A Modern Guide to Lean OKRs, Part I
Volumes have been written about measuring and managing objectives over the last century, and with good reason. If we can improve our processes and execution,...
The Frictionless Future
An article I recently co-wrote with Di-Ann Eisnor sparked some controversy. The post, about cities of the near future, took as a given that urban dwellers would...
A Tale of Two Cities, 2030 Edition
It’s 2030, and North American cities are choking on poorly planned, uneven growth. The construction industry continues to be plagued by decreasing productivity, rising costs,...
Preparing for Liftoff
There’s a revolution in the air. Literally, up in the sky. Winged devices and the necessary ecosystem around them are undergoing the biggest transformation since...
Profits *Because of* Purpose
Much has been written about the lofty goal of creating profits while somehow also delivering on the goal of providing a social good. “Profits with...
The Death of “Alternative Energy”
Fifteen years ago, when I joined the early ranks of clean energy entrepreneurs, we were nearly dead in the water on climate. Oil was $15...
The Coming Electrification of Everything
At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in...
