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The episode discusses the challenges and opportunities in hard tech and industrial sustainability with VC Anthony Del Porto.

Today's episode explores three ideas that caught my attention: Green premium is a deal killer – Anthony won't touch deals where eco-friendliness costs more (end state). If the sustainable solution isn't also the economically superior one, it won't easily scale.Tech transfer done right – Hearing Anthony describe how he’s seen universities claim 50% equity and “blow up” a cap table from day 1 highlights how critical doing tech transfer “right” is for the industrial sustainability ecosystem.The ...

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