Synonym: Edward Shenderovich

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.

In this episode, we’re grabbing a drink with Edward Shenderovich, co-founder and CEO of Synonym…

“Synonym is accelerating the world's biological future by developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities. We provide synthetic biology (synbio) producers – from startups to the Fortune 500 – with flexible production capacity while giving infrastructure investors access to a new, carbon-negative biomanufacturing asset class that we are calling “fermentation farms.”

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📝  Show Notes Below👇

🎧 New podcast episode: 

“Ultimately, all company building activity comes down to -- market and people. The market needs to be there and you need to have an amazing team to figure out… what is the right product for market and what is the right way to bring that product to market”
-Edward Shenderovich, founder and CEO of Synonym. 

Find Edward on LinkedIn, and check out Synonym’s website here. 

🍸 What we drank during the episode: Bombay Sapphire Gin Martini (Matt) and BeefEater Gin Martini 🍸(Edward).

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🦠Synonym

🦠Knotel

🦠Delivery Hero

🦠Tradeshift

🦠Baker McKenzie

🦠Silicon Valley Bank

🦠Six Apart LTD. - Movable Type

🦠Live Journal

🦠Kite Ventures

🦠Newmark

🦠Capacitor.bio

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🧠Beefeater Gin

🧠Bombay Sapphire Gin

🧠Edwardian Ball

🧠Burning Man

🧠Telluride Film Festival

🧠Deepak Chora

🧠Robert Burns

🧠Dr. Seuss

🧠Mark Rothko Artist

🧠Whitney Museum of Art

🧠MoMA Museum

🧠The Met

🧠San Diego Union-Tribune

🧠RSS

🧠Gregory W. Becker

🧠SVB Wine Practice

🧠Amazon Marketplace - Pacific Tower

🧠Andrew Paulson

🧠Brad Fitzpatrick

🧠Russo-Georgian War

🧠Lukasz Gadowski

🧠Amol Sarva

🧠Asset Class

🧠Genetech’s Insulin Fermentation

📚Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

📚Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein

📚The Art of War - Sun Tzu

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[00:00] Intro

[01:38] Drink of the Show

[02:40] Vodka, Whiskey & Cold, Dark, Lonely Places

[03:49] Edwardian Ball

[04:45] Edward Burning Man ‘96

[07:13] Telluride

[08:55] Stardust

[09:50] Edward’s Poetry

[13:18] How to Write Kid’s Poetry

[14:10] Dr. Seuss

[15:35] Stop Thinking

[16:13] Inspirations

[17:27] Museums

[19:27] Edward’s First Jobs

[22:43] Silicon Valley Bank

[23:57] Greg Becker

[26:47] Amazon Marketplace

[27:59] Moscow Trip

[28:19] Andrew Paulson

[29:31] Live Journal

[29:38] Brad Fitzpatrick

[30:29] Russia Invades Georgia in 2008

[31:35] Kite Ventures

[33:12] Delivery Hero

[37:45] Moving to Bio-Economy

[38:12] Knotel

[40:09] Became Passionate About Climate

[42:28] Synonym

[43:06] Asset Classes

[44:47] Business Model

[49:19] Fermentation Capacity

[50:03] Built Capacitor.bio

[53:17] Is Government Interested in Getting Involved 

[58:19] Cool and Weird Things

[01:02:13] Bio-Economy/AI/Nuclear Energy

[01:06:51] Rapid fire questions 

[01:06:54] Loved startups and founders

[01:08:08] Book recommendations

[01:14:43] Final thoughts

[01:16:22] END