Jason Badeaux

@jasonbadeaux

Cofounder of Anode Labs. Bringing energy independence to every home.

I’ve worked in Web 3 and crypto since 2013 and have never worked with a project that spent meaningful money on sales and marketing. You don’t need to spend money on marketing when users are genuine owners, love what they do, and love telling other people about it.
from Web3 playbook: How token incentives can bootstrap networks by Chris Dixon
Take solar since 1976. On average, module deployed capacity grew almost 40% per year while costs have fallen over 12% per year.
from The transition to clean energy is accelerating by Tsung Xu
Based on actual quotes and comments from VCs and folks in the industry. Hindsight is 20/20 but if you’re an entrepreneur getting a lot of nos, you’re in good company.
from Not fundable by Sriram Krishnan
And when was the last time you tried to go to fill up your tank and you couldn’t because there was no fuel? The 70's? That was one of the worst existential crises our real economy has faced since the Great Depression. This is a far more frequent occurrence on the electricity grid: nodes can’t function individually, unlike how cars and boilers can.
from AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience by James McGinniss
If interest rates begin to rise or we see a post Covid-19 global slowdown, these automakers may struggle to make interest and debt repayment schedules while borrowing additional debt to fund its plans to rapidly build out their EV infrastructure and compete with Tesla. This issue raises major concerns for the survival of these traditional auto bran... See more
from Page not found • Holon by Tim Davies
Using the proposed approach, nine different-by-design value capturing mechanisms were identified: value transfer*(1), work “staking” token(2), protocol consensus token(3), dividend(4), backing by another asset(s)(5), discount token(6), internal product governance(7), meta-governance(8)**, and hedonic value(9)
from How can we understand and classify value creation in the web3.0 economy? by Vasily Sumanov
More so than crypto mining helping the grid, there will be more and more industries with high-electricity operating costs looking to use the cheapest, cleanest energy available. Colocating these high power users with the clean power plants helps create more demand for clean energy, without making interconnection queues worse or requiring more trans... See more
from The transition to clean energy is accelerating by Tsung Xu
The underlying theme across all 8 of these bullets, except perhaps the last, is that each drives scale of battery production.
from Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani by Kyle Samani
Over time, the Gigafactory will grow and hopefully fulfill Elon Musk’s dream: achieving complete vertical integration for all Tesla products.
from An Inside Look at the Tesla Gigafactory by PJ Howland

from Web3 playbook: How token incentives can bootstrap networks by Chris Dixon

from The transition to clean energy is accelerating by Tsung Xu

from Not fundable by Sriram Krishnan

from AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience by James McGinniss

from Page not found • Holon by Tim Davies

from How can we understand and classify value creation in the web3.0 economy? by Vasily Sumanov

from The transition to clean energy is accelerating by Tsung Xu

from Tesla Is Not A Car Company — Kyle Samani by Kyle Samani

from An Inside Look at the Tesla Gigafactory by PJ Howland