#12: Building the first marketplace for clean hydrogen | Talk with Shawn Drost - CEO & Co-Founder @ Phoenix Hydrogen

Shawn Drost is the CEO & co-founder of Phoenix Hydrogen based in Berkeley, California, USA. He has previously co-founded and led a company training software engineers called Hack Reactor (https://www.hackreactor.com/) and has an exit of this company with Galvanize (https://www.galvanize.com/). After selling his startup, Shawn decided to embark on a journey to learn more about climate change and look for potential improvements he could build. He gained significant knowledge about clean hydrogen and then kickstarted Phoenix Hydrogen. With Phoenix Hydrogen, Shawn and his team are building the first marketplace of clean hydrogen combining his software development skills with the expertise of his co-founder on hydrogen. They have participated in one of the batches of Y Combinator and managed to raise their seed capital during the previous months. During this podcast episode, we are talking about Shawn's way to learn about climate change and clean energy, the resources & companies he follows, what is green hydrogen, his vision of the use of hydrogen in the upcoming years, advice to aspiring entrepreneurs on finding co-founders, how he has approached fundraising for the company, and what's the process to build his marketplace. Some of the resources and links shared by Shawn are: https://www.terra.do https://elementalexcelerator.com https://climatebase.org https://www.mcjcollective.com/media/podcast https://xenetwork.org/ets/ - Feel free to follow Shawn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawndrost/ - To know more about Phoenix Hydrogen, you can visit their website at https://www.phoenixhydrogen.com/ --- To know more about Uppersky - you can follow us via Instagram or LinkedIn.