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Exponential View @exponentialview. Host of @bbgoriginals series Exponentially
Dec 15, 2021 8 tweets 7 min read
🤩 Action is gearing up on climate change, and investment in #climatetech has grown to stunning new heights.

My new report with @PwC looks at market trends and where there’s untapped potential for investors and policymakers. 🧵 1/8 🤪 The market is hot. Year-on-year growth in climate tech investment is 210%, with more than $60bn invested in startups in H1 2021 alone. 14¢ of every VC dollar is now invested in climate tech.

We’re now tracking 3000+ active climate tech startups.
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Sep 7, 2021 17 tweets 9 min read
🤩 It’s on. 🧵

EXPONENTIAL is here.

‘valuable’, ‘timely’, ‘enticing’, ‘essential’

Now in the US, UK & everywhere.

(And check the end of the thread.)

azm.io/buynow #exponential

1/17 We have entered THE EXPONENTIAL AGE, a time of tech acceleration that leaves behind our economic & social norms. This gap explains many of today’s pressing issues. How can we resolve them? #exponential
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Aug 11, 2021 18 tweets 8 min read
🔥🔥 The day after the IPCC report, how is the media covering the climate crisis & the work being done to tackle it on its front pages?

Let's review (and at the end I'll give some suggestions)

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The @BBCNews

Nothing.

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May 7, 2021 14 tweets 19 min read
🤩 EXCITING NEWS: I’ve written a book! It arrives in September and is available to pre-order here: azm.io/exponentialbook

1/9 🚀 The book argues that we are entering a new era of human history, the Exponential Age, driven by a wave of transformative, exponential technologies. It explains why this change has come about, what effect it has on economics/politics/society, & what we should do about it.
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Sep 24, 2020 7 tweets 6 min read
Climatetech has emerged as a new frontier for founders wanting to tackle climate change.

Together with @CHerweijer and her team at PwC, we looked at how the sector has been developing over the past seven years.

#climatetech 1/7 Overall CAGR of 84% since 2013-2019, representing a total of $60bn invested in 1200+ #cliimatetech startups.

Last year alone, climate tech investments made 6% of global VC activity in 2019

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Sep 23, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
With lots of people launching e-mail newsletters, I thought I would share the first regular ones I launched.

@TheEconomist's Politics and Business This Week back in 1996. We got them to about 250k subscribers each. 1/3

@cjgbest @hamishmckenzie @CaseyNewton @tomstandage We had to make sure people new had to type in their email address. Hence the details below.

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Sep 2, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
Who has created more net economic and social welfare (ie gains minus losses)?

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Who has created more net economic and social welfare (ie gains minus losses)?

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Jun 20, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
The Economist is very generous in its assessment of The British governments performance in covid, key points it needed to make ... economist.com/leaders/2020/0… The research breakthroughs are not driven by this government by independent international science, some locates here.
May 25, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
We've seen the chart on the spike in online sales in the past couple of months.

Looks impressive 1/4 Image But overall retail sales have collapsed

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