20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass****...

Many young adults growing up in computer science have never had a job that required human interaction, shaping their interpersonal capabilities often for the worse

Climate change efforts are not just charitable, they are profitable

The less formal education Chris’ friends have, the more he sees them aggressively emphasize it towards their kids. Over-specialization and intense competition has the potential to stifle growth for kids rather than stimulate

“Training by way of tragedy. When things are going up you tend to correlate it with talent, when things are going down you tend to correlate it with luck.” – Chris Sacca

His biggest goal is to convince other investors/firms to care more about climate change and divert them towards the opinion that this effort can be profitable, not just charitable

He claims there is more money to be made in climate than in tech

When someone is upset or struggling, don’t offer solutions. Listen to them and set them up with hypothetical questions to own the solution.Example: What do you think we should do about this? How do we prevent this from happening again? What should we do going forward?

Chris's first venture check was when he sold a company called PhotoBucket for $330 million. Was a credit card check, not a cash check

“There’s a surplus of assholes coming down the pipeline” – Chris Sacca

“It may be lucky but it’s not an accident” – Chris Sacca