Hidden Track: Former Meta CTO's Strategy on Scaling Green Tech (Mike Schroepfer)

I'm launching a new podcast, Hidden Track, which is all about the lesser-known side interests of famous people. Please share and subscribe! Making things cheap is the best way to get climate solutions to scale. Mike Schroepfer shares the reason for his optimism behind solving key climate challenges through enabling technology that scales in the physical economy. 00:00 Intro 01:58 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox 06:45 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma 08:07 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook 12:13 Founding Gigascale Capital 16:10 Reason for optimism about our future 22:03 Exciting projects at Gigascale 26:05 People need to see things to believe 28:50 Biggest levers to positively impact climate 32:15 Cow burps — 6% of carbon emissions 37:20 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices 39:02 Offshore datacenters in the ocean 41:17 What is Gigascale's value-add? 44:50 Is it lonely at the top? 49:31 Advice for college students 52:31 How Schrep changed Philip's life Learn more about Gigascale Capital: https://gigascale.com/