In this episode of Venturing in Climate, I spoke to Tessa Clarke, CEO and Co-Founder of OLIO. OLIO is an app that connects local communities and businesses to share surplus food and other household items. OLIO has raised ~$50m in funding.
We discuss:
1) What OLIO does and how the idea came about
2) Tessa's career journey
3) The scale of food waste and key challenges
4) Key lessons from maintaining a good relationship with your Co-Founder
5) Going from start-up to scale-up and key lessons
6) Fundraising: 'cockroach plan', current funding climate and valuation
7) A day in the life of Tessa
8) Quick-fire round
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2) How Johan came to found Tepeo
3) The challenge of heating - ~20% of carbon emissions are associated with domestic heating
4) Lessons from entrepreneurship
5) Being a sole founder
6) The need to move from a centralised to decentralised energy system...and the energy crisis
7) What's next for Tepeo
8) Advice from moving into the climate space
9) Quick-fire round
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