The Curious Learners
I feel privileged to speak to so many great minds as part of my job. They are passionate builders, insightful investors, laser-focused leaders. They are all curious learners in their own way. It is their urge to learn more. That urge is curiosity. When I speak to these people, I hear fascinating ideas, solid business plans, genius growth hacking practices, relentless team building focus, unique investing strategies and many others. However, most of the time, key insights, business intelligence and inspiring stories shared in these conversations do not make their way to the outside world. The Curious Learners is an attempt to share the stories of those curious learners with those, who might find the inspiration that they were looking for or those who might get the encouragement for their own journey that they already started. Looking forward to a long journey together.
The Curious Learners
Sebastian Manhart | Carbon Removal: Where Technology Should Meet Policy | The Curious Learners Ep. 36
Hi everyone. My guest today is Sebastian Manhart. He is the senior policy adviser at Carbonfuture, which is a technology company building an operating system for high quality carbon removals.
Sebastian has a super interesting background of over a decade of entrepreneurship and an advisory role with the German government on decentralized identity. His move into climate-tech and more specifically carbon removals is a result of his passion for this space.
Sebastian and I had an eye-opening conversation on how governments view frontier technologies, state of the play for carbon removal policy globally, range of technologies for high quality carbon removals and of course what Carbonfuture is building in this exciting space.
Here are some of the topics that we discussed:
Technology vs Policy. How do these two work together?
How do governments and policy makers view frontier technologies?
In what practical ways do you help founding teams? How much of a difference does being proactive make?
What was your transition from advising on crypto to climate-tech?
What is your take on the climate-tech space from a policy perspective? And how does it differ across regions?
What does carbon removal actually mean?
What is high-quality carbon removal?
What doe Carbonfuture do?
What carbon removal technology does Carbonfuture currently focus on?
What made you get attracted to Carbonfuture over bunch of other companies in this space?
How do you get new suppliers onto the platform?
How about buyers of carbon credits? What attracts them to Carbonfuture?
What is the northstar metric at Carbonfuture?
What is missing in carbon removal markets? What is your agenda for 2023?
What are you most #curious about these days and what are you doing to #learn more about it?
