Episode 42 / The Butterfly Story of Ecological Restoration Hosting Troy Carter & Patrick Leung

This butterfly is excited to be speaking with Troy Carter & Patrick Leung, they are both the co-founders of Earthshot. Troy is the CEO of Earthshot, which is building the technology for planetary-scale ecological restoration. He is also a co-founder at RIZOME, which is pioneering the use of bamboo engineered lumber as a climate-positive alternative to wood, steel, and concrete. He is bringing the audacious scale and vision of startup methodology to the planet’s ecological and climate crisis. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics, was an early employee at Airbnb and E la Carte, then founded and scaled Troy Cider and exited after a successful acquisition in 2015. He has focused on carbon finance and renewable energy and agriculture projects for the last six years. Patrick has spent two decades in the tech industry as an engineering leader. At Google, he worked on Google Maps, Emerging Markets, and the Google Duplex conversational AI system. Patrick was also CTO at Two Sigma Private Investments where he pioneered the use of data science and machine learning in private equity markets. In this episode, you will hear about Earthshot, the carbon market, bamboo, indigenous communities, and more. Some notes… More about 1treellion.org, Troy Carter, and Patrick Leung. To support planting all over the world, please check out this link. The great music is credited to Pixabay.