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****...

Chris is leading the climate change firm Lowercarbon Capitol where every deal has the potential for more than 1 gigaton of carbon removal

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

Don’t dismiss your success, it will always be an unexpected combo of luck and hard work

The sheer ease of access to information is contributing to this as well as kids are not used to hearing no

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

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

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

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

Let the large amount of good in the world outweigh the small amount of bad.. Chris was skeptical of AirBnB at first because of the potential liabilities with host crimes, but this was a bad perspective. The law of big numbers – as populations get larger, they can distort relevant correlations with fractional possibility

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