Climate Capital with TOM CHI - Google X Co-founder, Founding Partner At One Ventures

About this episode

Tom Chi discusses his book on climate investment and the need for a new approach to education and problem-solving.

“In the book I spend a bunch of time basically teaching skills and teaching frameworks of thinking. Not to indoctrinate, it's not a framework like an ideology where you need to believe exactly these things. This is a lot more about how does one use their minds effectively to solve problems that have been solved before. Of course, I work on things that have to do with investment and climate and the future of the economy and automation. The main things I'm trying to teach in the book are skills around creativity, critical thinking, community compassion and frameworks around how to go and use that on problems that should be relatively portable to a bunch of problems that are meaningful to you. The way that education needs to change is that people need to actively be working on things that truly matter to them so that over time they end up being able to go make that difference.” Tom Chi is a physicist, designer, inventor, and investor whose work has shaped everything from Google Glass and rapid prototyping at Google X to some of the most ambitious climate technologies being built today. He’s now the founding partner of At One Ventures , where he invests in deep-tech companies focused…

People in this episode

Guest: Tom Chi

Topics covered

• climate change
• investment
• creativity
• education
• economy
• technology

Keywords

• climate capital
• investment
• creativity
• critical thinking
• education
• technology
• economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google X, At One Ventures

Books & works: Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future

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