Fellow Climate Warriors,

This episode I drink 🍋 Meyer lemon water and 🍷 wine with Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandelion Energy.  

Join us as we discuss how 🌼 Dandelion is utilizing 🌋 geothermal energy, why homeowners want geothermal heat pumps, Kathy’s approach to leadership, the challenges and benefits of being both a 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 mother and a 👩‍💼 founder, fundraising while🤰pregnant, transitioning from CEO to President of Dandelion, and oh so much more!!

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🎧 New podcast episode:

Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandelion Energy on why she chose to work on climate change:

“How is everyone not working on climate change?...In my understanding of the science, I would say it will define the lives of people in my generation.”  -Kathy Hannun, Founder and President of Dandelion Energy

@KathyHannun, Founder and President of @DandelionEnergy, the largest residential geothermal company in the United States.  Before founding Dandelion, Hannun was a Rapid Evaluator at X, Alphabet’s innovation lab, where she focused on finding “Moonshots”.  Kathy initiated Dandelion as an X project and then launched it into an independent startup company in May 2017.  Dandelion has since raised millions in funding from top VCs, set a new standard for geothermal quality and cost-effectiveness, and empowered homeowners to avoid over 100 million pounds of carbon emissions and counting.  In February 2021, Dandelion raised a $30MM Series B funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.  

🥃 What we drank during the episode: 🍋 Meyer lemon water and 🍷 wine

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

🐣 Google

🐣 X

🐣 Gradient

🐣 Breakthrough Energy

🐣Zoom

🐣Opower

🐣 Diamond Age

🐣 Impossible Foods

🐣 Gradient

🐣 Dishcraft Robotics

🐣 Stripe

People/places/things mentioned during the episode

🧠Svartsengi Power Station

🧠Dan Yates

🧠Gregg Dixon

🧠Michael Sachse

🧠Jack Oslan

🧠Project Hail Mary

🧠The Hard Thing about Hard Things

🧠Zero To One

🧠Speed and Scale

🧠Pat Brown

🧠Nate Gorence

🧠Linda Pouliot

🧠Stripe Climate

🧠Patrick Collison

-TIMESTAMPS-

[0:00] Intro

[4:00] Drink of the show

[6:00] Becky Myers, Dandelion’s first customer

[7:00] Why Kathy chose to work on climate change  

[11:00] How Dandelion is utilizing geothermal energy

[14:30] Matt attempting to explain how Dandelion’s technology works & Kathy’s response

[21:00] Where Dandelion can/should operate geographically 

[23:00] Dandelion’s go-to-market journey

[28:30] Why homeowners want geothermal heat pumps

[30:30] Where Dandelion is today

[32:00] Kathy’s approach to leadership

[36:50] Being a mother and a founder

[41:30] Positive impacts of being a mother+founder on Dandelion

[44:30] Fundraising while pregnant and Zoom leveling the playing field

[46:30] Transitioning from CEO to President of Dandelion

[54:30] Top 3 books

[59:00] Top 3 Founders+Startups

[1:04:00] Conclusion

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