Venture Capitalist & Climate Technology Thought Leader
Molly Wood: Biography at a Glance
- Molly Wood is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on climate tech and solutions to the climate crisis.
- Prior to VC, she was a longtime business and technology journalist - serving as a tech columnist at The New York Times and an executive editor at CNET.
- Molly is also a host of the podcasts This Week in Startups (covering startups, technology, markets, media, crypto, and more) and How We Survive (a narrative podcast about solutions to the climate crisis).
- Molly has been recognized for her dynamic reporting by the Webbys, the National Magazine Awards, and is a Gracie Award winner.
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Biography
Molly Wood (@mollywood) is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on climate tech and solutions to the climate crisis. Prior to VC, she was a longtime business and technology journalist turned venture capitalist. Molly is a veteran of national media (Marketplace on NPR, the New York Times, and CNET/CBS) and a podcasting hall-of-famer. Molly also co-hosts the daily podcast This Week in Startups, which reaches millions of listeners each month.
Topics
Capitalism Will Either Kill Us or Save Us... or Both
Runaway consumption and fossil fuel profits created climate change and global warming, but now the free markets might be the best chance we have to incentivize change in the other direction.
By framing the climate crisis as an engineering problem and a business opportunity, Tech Journalist Molly Wood discovered a new path to explore climate resilience, adaptation, and solutions. In this conversation, she offers her refreshingly hopeful perspective and details how human ingenuity can find ways to survive and move toward a better future.
ESG for Investors, Customers, and Compliance
ESG compliance and reporting are no longer optional, but they are still not easy or standard. But with the growing interest in responsible investing, new solutions are being invented every day. In this conversation, Venture Capitalist Molly Wood offers a look at the ESG startup landscape and how it’s changing the way businesses operate.
Minimum Viable Data: Why Less is More
Hoovering up every possible piece of data has been the norm for business for decades. But that norm is now riskier than ever in terms of security, reputation, and regulation.
In this conversation, Tech Journalist Molly Wood clearly defines the harms of excessive data collection and privacy invasion. Molly re-writes the data playbook, offering consumers insight into how to protect their data and teaching businesses how to minimize their risk.
