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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1649229045737-3GJX9D4NBN1NWXNUTZSP/Screen+Shot+2022-04-06+at+9.10.35+AM.png Blog - PFAS — How to Solve a “Forever” Problem - Make it stand out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/why-we-invested-in-nline-energy monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/observations-on-resilient-foundations monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/vc-amp-early-stage-water-investing-biv-on-the-water-values-podcast monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1631129356544-Z011VKYNLTP0FJ0PWLHT/Screen+Shot+2021-09-08+at+12.22.48+PM.png Blog - VC & Early Stage Water Investing: BIV on the Water Values Podcast - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/pouring-sugar-on-the-floor monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/ipwoah-a-changing-game-in-waters-exit-market monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/welcome-to-our-2021-summer-associate-cohort monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1626200587914-UB68SQM5GTFD62K5WBFQ/Twitter+Post+.png Blog - Welcome to our 2021 Summer Associate Cohort - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1626102531898-JWOGBBJTYBIF7XYURGL9/IMG_6215.JPG Blog - Welcome to our 2021 Summer Associate Cohort Tarlon Khoubyari’s career has been centered around helping others find meaning and purpose behind their social media channels. Throughout her career, she’s held positions in the world’s leading financial organizations, multi-million dollar technology startups, and supported clients who are in the White House serving as the COO of Boss Business Market. To further her commitment to improving access to STEM education she is the Chief Marketing Officer for the STEM Station, an ed-tech startup that aims to gamify STEM learning for underrepresented high school students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1626102370554-BCY43GSICUBZMGFAN64B/MarliesHeadshot.jpg Blog - Welcome to our 2021 Summer Associate Cohort Marlies is a summer associate focusing on business operations. She graduated from Stanford University in June 2021 with a major in Management Science & Engineering and a minor in Environmental Engineering. Hailing from the Great Lakes State, she is passionate about all things water and the environment. Prior to Burnt Island Ventures, Marlies interned at Amazon Web Services on the water resources team, a water pipe leak detection startup, and her hometown's drinking water treatment plant. She also worked on several research projects, in which she evaluated the removal of microplastics by water resource recovery facilities and developed a tool to predict sanitary sewer overflows during extreme weather events. Marlies will return to Stanford in Fall 2021 to continue her studies in the MS Program in Management Science & Engineering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1626102501441-7U886MTA3DO66IMNE4NM/unnamed+%282%29.png Blog - Welcome to our 2021 Summer Associate Cohort Shradha Jain is interested in industrial and infrastructure strategy from the vantage point of IoT. Before joining Burnt Island Ventures, Shradha worked in utilities and energy as a technology strategist at Deloitte. Shradha has experience in predictive analytics, smart grid systems, wildfire mitigation strategy, and innovation strategy. She earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and is currently pursuing a Masters in South Asian Philosophy at the University of Chicago. She is committed to bridging the gap between tech and the humanities. In her free time, she enjoys conversations about the Sanskrit philosophical traditions, existentialism, and governance. https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/bby7mswhmex0gko6fgh69yv39uxk1t monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1626112772631-RIQ70ZI5XLZLB5DZG81S/Blue+and+White+Professional+Business+Blog+Banner+%283%29.png Blog - Why we invested in Daupler - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/why-we-invested-in-stormsensor monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1623964213945-ELG5FHULPOES80LPVAAX/Stormsensor+BIV+Image.002.jpeg Blog - Why we invested in StormSensor  - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/rhetoric-vs-reality-water-funding-in-the-us monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/risk-excellence-and-dna monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487322943-QNXCEZHZUYZ91LZVLU4S/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_01.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Hello and thank you. I’m Tom Ferguson, the Managing Partner of Burnt Island Ventures. We want to be the best water entrepreneurs’ first phone call when they’re raising their first dollar of outside capital. I went full time on this at the end of October 2020, and so far we’ve made 6 investments totaling $5.3m and that will be $6.7m by the end of the month, across 10 companies. I want to spend a little time on how we see the opportunity in water, and then move on to some advice that’s tailored to the founders and entrepreneurs in this room, but I think is pertinent to anyone building or running a business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487409241-6IY44IYTV8PBHAIAYZK5/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_02.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - So firstly seed stage water investing - why did we go after this opportunity? At its core it’s about this graphic which is repeated across the world. Demand is outpacing supply, and it’s not happening in 5 years or 10 years, it’s happening now. The megadrought in the southwest is very serious indeed, and if you look at the levels of Lake Oroville it’s below where it was at the height of the drought in 2016. The Sierra snowpack, which provides CA with 30% of its water supply, is receding at a record rate. And these patterns are repeated across the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487598420-O1PNH10G7TL3W5GXD9HH/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_03.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - US Intelligence estimates that global demand will exceed current sustainable supplies by 40% by 2030. I’m not very smart, but this is the kind of graphic I think it’s reasonable to invest behind, because innovation HAS to be a big part of our continued existence on this planet no matter what else happens. Water is at the bottom of the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy, and there are no substitutes. These are market fundamentals I’m ok hanging my hat - and by hat I mean financial and professional future - on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487645063-HOL14F9ANOQEGQ7CWP2J/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_04.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Water is a collection of very large markets, $900bn in total, that are about to undergo enormous and to our view inevitable change in the coming decades. From municipal drinking water provision to the most intense industrial processes, these are vast markets that will increasingly be forced to be dynamic. Dynamic is not usually a word associated with the water sector, but we’re seeing a pace of change across a variety of verticals that we have not seen before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487692909-IC4FEPY6NAWL3736IJ1D/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_05.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - So we’re here because of simple building blocks we think we can generate excellent returns for our investors. We have better founders , operating in better, more dynamic and fundamental markets, and we think there is going to be a better market to purchase these companies in 7-10 years. And so turning to tonight, the wonderful MIT team asked me to have a think about what might be useful for the founders to hear, and I decided I wanted to talk about themes and ideas that are often talked about, but equally often forgotten in the live fire of building a company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487795756-FXY8HEE2RFSGR80OP2FY/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_06.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - I wanted to talk about the Year Ahead. I feel like now I’m 6 months into the journey of being a founder I say all of this with even more empathy than I did when I was with Imagine H2O. In the Year Ahead, all of you will be faced with exceptional challenges, but your only way through is to make good decisions at the margin - how you react to each subsequent challenge, so I want to talk about Risk, Excellence, and DNA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487853057-J4873HZGM97C8503RZ1Z/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_07.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Starting with RISK. The first thing I want to say is that most people think about entrepreneurs as these great risk takers, off into the brave new dawn, willing the world to bend to their will. That’s 180 degrees wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487923828-VQBKPIXV4OBVGK3FMKF5/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_08.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Great entrepreneurs hate risk. Hate it. They want to take off as much risk as possible before they make key decisions - that’s why they talk to customers, conduct interviews, prototype their products, spend small before they spend big. That’s why they act like scientists, proving out hypotheses as far as possible. But there’s a limit to this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621487959441-PO1EVQ9NUGAMP3YZK5J2/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_09.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - No matter how much work you do, there is always residual uncertainty. The world is unpredictable - pandemics, wars, stock market crashes, Peloton recalls, Dogecoin - and the lesson from these events is not that you missed some indicator that was obvious in retrospect, with thanks to Danny Kahnemann the lesson is that the world is inherently uncertain. And the ONLY thing you can do is to do the work (and actually do it, not kid yourself you have after 20 interviews), and then adjust for the risk landscape. So how do you do that? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488013635-IGRKZ4H0QYRT1D167JCO/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_10.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - The answer is to Think in Bets (and if you haven’t read the book by Annie Duke you should). You have to assess the data you have about your market (and also the data you know you don’t have), assess the resources at your disposal, try and estimate the risk of getting punched in the head by the unknown unknowns, and then choose the best risk-adjusted pathway to the outcome you want. That may be global domination and a centiunicorn, in which case you will likely want to and have to be repeatedly aggressive - but it may also be to work towards cashflow breakeven early and have the future in your own hands, a much less aggressive series of bets. The best thing about thinking in bets is that it scales. The way in which you think about key decisions now is the same way as you should think about key decisions in 9 years when you have $200m in revenue. There’s no difference in the structure of the decision, just a change in the inputs (especially the resources at your disposal - the larger the resources get, the more aggressive you can be without putting the company at risk. This is a key scale advantage). Just remember that sometimes the world goes against you - 80/20 bets fail one in every five times in the long run. So don’t beat yourself up if the world goes against you - as long as you learn something and don’t go out of business as a result (even though you are likely at one point or another to have to bet the company). Anything multiplied by zero is zero. Just know what you’re doing, and why. There are no sure things - and your decision-making should reflect that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488146864-40OEOZZS5B7KII3B6MFH/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_11.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Now EXCELLENCE I’ve spent 6 years being pitched to on a regular basis and it’s striking the extent to which this word is overlooked. Excellence is worth pursuing for a bunch of different reasons and I want to hit on two here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488170958-7GMX8UJ58017OPWOWT63/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_12.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Firstly, it’s awfully competitive out there, and you shouldn’t underestimate the breadth of your competitive set. Take capital provision, for instance. If you’re pitching Burnt Island Ventures, you’re not pitching against your direct competitors in your chosen vertical, you’re competing against all the other potential destinations for that capital, and that means you’re competing against all other water startups. With us you have the luxury of us focusing solely on the water sector, but if you’re pitching LowerCarbon Capital or Congruent or SJF you’re pitching against every other cleantech company, and if you’re pitching YC or First Round or Afore or the other top tier seed funds, you’re competing against every other startup. Finally, if you assume that the bar for startups is always going up, you have to be amongst the best prospects the investor has EVER SEEN. This is a very high bar, so never give anyone a reason not to think you’re amazing. Design matters, logic matters, structure matters, writing matters. My pitch deck took me three months of solid effort, and it’s still not where I want it to be. Set the bar for everything high. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488270594-F24ME48EE23T87OF1ZW3/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_13.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - If you take this idea seriously you get rewarded in the long run, because you can’t help but build a brand. Brand building is an odd idea, because enduring brands are built almost passively, as the result of a long track record of being really, really good. You can SEO and design and do all the window dressing, but true brands are underpinned by consistent quality - Nike, Apple, Lego, Marvel, Yo Yo Ma, LeBron James - are a function of high quality, low variance (so very narrow-band consistency) over a long period of time. And a strong brand is a consistently underestimated source of long term advantage if you keep at it - just ask Warren Buffett and his position in See’s Candies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488371019-DB5FKYUU1L7YZKBX8QPB/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_14.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - DNA. If you think about your company as an organism, the DNA is the instructions that are handed on to the elements of the expanding entity as it grows. This is how we do things, this is what we stand for, this is what’s important to us, these are our standards of quality, this is how we treat people. The explicit and implicit instructions that are passed from the CEO on out. And I want to touch on three of these that are consistently important https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488417007-S41YRJCHRUYBO6F24F0V/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_15.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Firstly, talking to your customers. There is no substitute for setting a habit, a muscle memory of speaking with your customers, especially as the CEO, as often as possible. What do they care about, what’s their experience with the product, what works, what doesn’t, where else can you help? You need this now, and you need it forever. You ever email jeff@amazon.com? It works… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488465415-DBJMTP45D94CEGHEM9CU/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_16.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Secondly, be careful of convenience, especially early in the company lifetime. You’re taught to look for hacks, for shortcuts. You have a ton of them - cheap laptops, AWS accounts, SEO credits, 3D printers, Zoom. That can’t lead you to try and avoid what is important for you to learn. When I started the BIV raise I had multiple offers for capital-raising professionals to help me shorten the road, and I said no because a) it’s expensive and b) I HAVE to learn how to sell this idea, I have to go through the pain, I have to learn the resiliency that comes from fundraising, but equally comes from selling a product, looking after the first customers, dealing with suppliers, hacking through the spit and sawdust days - going through these experiences, rather than looking for ways to reduce discomfort, is an underrated endeavor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488516534-RNIKSJVW6NXD1KDE0YMZ/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_17.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Thirdly, if you think about your DNA is a transmission mechanism, be very careful of who you choose to transmit it. Companies are just a group of people taking a sequence of decisions that result in actions that result in more decisions. Who you let inside to take those decisions and actions matters. So be careful, because the wrong people will mutate your DNA in ways you do not want. If you let the wrong person inside, take immediate action with no wishful thinking. This is something we ask all our companies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488582086-NQBIJ8Z64Y6UYTHX64JC/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_18.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - So that’s Risk, Excellence and DNA. I just want to talk directly to the emerging CEOs because this is a REALLY hard job, and you really have three responsibilities, and thanks to Fred Wilson for his classic articulation which often has key parts overlooked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488644412-BDU6U2HQ5OT42V4Y1BRT/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_19.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - First, Sets the overall vision and strategy for the company - most people only get that far but the second part is by far the more important - and communicates it to all stakeholders. Internal and external, from board members to interns. You have to communicate it effectively. My personal favorite is the metronomic update, first of the month without fail. I think every founder should do it, and we expect this of BIV companies. Second, Recruits and hires (interesting that these are separated, but so far so good) - then the bit that gets missed - and retains the very best talent for the company. People matter and you have to hold on to good people. Third, makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank. That one’s simple, but not easy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488731765-JJ9RX8I55U6EUMJDMILC/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_20.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - To this I would add a fourth - look after yourself. Your companies rely on you to do the other 3 jobs well, and you can’t do any of them well if you’re a mess. Lean on advisors, friends, parents, loved ones, therapists, your houseplants - whatever it takes because companies are sequences of decisions, and if the key decisionmaker isn’t bringing their A game the rest of it doesn’t matter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1621488906877-3A4PAUPUV34S2CFII2RB/MIT+Deck+5.3.21_Page_21.jpg Blog - Risk, Excellence, and DNA - Good luck, god speed, and thanks for having me. https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/why-we-invested-in-ziptility monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1617130399175-ZY7IB7YUBSVLC00APSXK/Ziptility+Announcement+Image.jpg Blog - Why we invested in Ziptility https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/why-we-invested-in-zwitterco monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1616077831864-VAISIEZ7GUFLRTV5284T/ZwitterCo+Announcement+Image.001.jpeg Blog - Why we invested in ZwitterCo https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/is-the-uk-now-the-best-water-technology-market-in-the-world monthly 0.5 2022-12-06 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/building-the-worlds-best-water-venture-capital-fund monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/Monthly+Updates monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/Insights monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/Investments monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/News monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/Podcasts monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/blog/category/Announcements monthly 0.5 https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/53c83d98-b797-4be2-9e1d-a8c939be3cb3/TheFundamentalMolecule_R5_V2+%281%29.jpg https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-n8eet monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/74e34c9b-0878-41e2-8652-32ee5cb6262b/TFM_E52_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 52 Ravi Kurani - Swimming in Your Customer's Shoes - As you may have noticed, I really like unusual routes into entrepreneurship, where someone with an unfair advantage in and around some area of the world decides to solve something dumb within it. Ravi Kurani is ground zero for that paradigm - the scion of the pool monarchy of Southern California. He will explain. He went from shop assistant to pool boy to impact investor to founder to exited founder, and is now bringing his considerable talents to the roll-up game as well as the streets of New York. He's also the host of the podcast Liquid Assets, which is excellent. So this is me shamelessly trying to steal his tricks. One of my favorite things about Ravi is his insistence on understanding the reality of markets and his commitment to the work it takes to get there. He's awesome. Please enjoy my conversation with Ravi Kurani. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-7g87h monthly 0.5 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/ecd20f74-41db-4bd6-923d-a0ece6fa9e54/TFM_E51_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 51: Barrett Hansen -Building the System for Cash Flows in Water - Nobody has successfully built the software to help utilities manage the half trillion dollars that flows through utilities every year. Nobody until Barrett Hansen and the team at Current arrived to build a platform to solve one of the more obvious and vital workflows in utility management, aiming squarely at those under resourced utilities. Now live with 60 customers, Current is up there with the fastest growing companies we have backed and Barrett is a very smart, very humble guy. I have a soft spot for people who went to graduate school in Cambridge - Allston actually. Please enjoy my conversation with Barrett Hansen. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/episode-50-tom-ferguson-fat-tails-charlie-munger-and-being-an-m-maximizer monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/263ba349-6652-4ef7-a9ec-083c0e37bd37/TFM_E50_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 50: Tom Ferguson - Fat Tails, Charlie Munger and Being an m-Maximizer - Water is one of those sectors that hides in plain sight, essential, enormous, and quietly full of complexity. Very few people have done more over the last decade to help the world take it seriously than Tom Ferguson. From shaping the earliest conversations around water risk, to building global platforms for entrepreneurs through Imagine H2O, to founding Burnt Island Ventures as the first venture firm dedicated exclusively to water, Tom has been a consistent force in defining what this industry can become. Milestones are useful moments to pause and ask first-principle questions, and for the 50th episode of The Fundamental Molecule, Steve Kloos and I decided to do something special - flip the mic. This episode covers a lot of ground, including Charlie Munger, fat tails, Culture Bees, the Burnt Island and keeping the main thing the main thing. Please enjoy our conversation with Tom Ferguson. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-p2x9r monthly 0.5 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/171fc6c0-47a9-4ced-96a2-08f2f800f951/TFM_E49_EpisodeCover+-+V2+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 49: Paul O’Callaghan - Tolstoy, Chekhov and Liam Neeson - Accurate, informed, contextualized, sophisticated research is at the heart of the development of any industry because it allows the players, from CEOs to investors to entrepreneurs, to make better decisions. Since inception in 2011 as O2 Environmental, Paul O'Callaghan and BlueTech Research have been at the forefront of getting pretty much all the key figures in our industry the information they need when they need it. Paul is a wonderful guy, thoughtful, insightful, a magpie for ideas that usually don’t coexist, and an exceptional entrepreneur in more ways than one. There aren’t many conversations that feature Tolstoy, Chekhov, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, BIV Partner Steve Kloos, Glen Hansard, David Bowie, and the Beatles. Please enjoy my conversation with Paul O'Callaghan. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-gg47r monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/ccd6c5da-57c5-4911-b10d-14c4f375cffd/TFM_E48_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 48: Mike Shaw - From Accidental Chemist to PFAS Destruction CEO - Taking the reins at a company is no small thing, especially when your predecessor in the CEO role was someone as exceptional as Julie Mullen. Julie had built the basis for Aclarity, and following her was not for the faint of heart. Mike Shaw is not faint of heart. He is an exceptional technical and product leader with fascinating experiences at Evoqua and Nanostone, and he has been leading the development of the Aclarity product up to its first commercial deployments late last year. Now officially in the CEO role - congratulations, Mike - I wanted to hear how he reflected on his journey, the transition from a technical leader to a company leader, and talk about the development of the PFAS market, among many other things, including a certain Manchester United manager. Please enjoy my conversation with the CEO of Aclarity, Mike Shaw. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-9bksw monthly 0.5 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/bd9b8c5f-2d9d-4fd3-b2fd-82b2aa79cb84/TFM_E47_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep 47: Christopher Gasson - Building the Source of Truth for the Water Sector - My guest today is the exceptional Christopher Gasson. As the owner of Global Water Intelligence, he has built a business that he bought for £17,000 and less than 150 subscribers to the indispensable knowledge source for people in this $1.6T business of water. Those of you who read his opinion columns in GWI know that this is a man not short of opinion, and I think that is an enormous service in a sector that suffers from a lack of people willing to both speak their mind with clarity and be controversial. He thinks as clearly as anyone I have met about water as a business and brings decades of perspective to how he communicates about where the market, and his market, is moving today, from semiconductors and AI to the bond markets and the potential for utility privatization in an era of government indebtedness. He's just right. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Christopher Gasson. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-bzp53 monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/2da4224e-513f-4f90-b284-25857c58c907/5cbaf0fc-9930-43aa-bd99-a3647b7b5257.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 46: Dylan Wolff - Wait, Kitchens Defrost How?! - You may know by now that I get pretty excited when people walk through the figurative BIV door with an understanding of reality that is virtually impossible to diagnose from the outside. From the moment I met Dylan Wolff and he explained what he was up to, I couldn't believe what he was solving. We will go into some depth as to what he's building at CNSRV, but it's the vehicle for the deletion of a stunning quantity of waterway as well as the provision of a multi layered, deeply practical and financial set of value propositions, all of which drop straight to their customers’ bottom line. Once you see it, you really can't unsee it. Dylan also happens to be, as we say back home, a really lovely bloke to spend time with. Please enjoy my conversation with Dylan Wolff. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-wkarg-s7esc monthly 0.5 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/9a4ad8fd-7a04-4f8d-a8e3-d9e31bb24d47/unnamed-2.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 45: Sivan Zamir - The Model of Corporate Startup Engagement - In 2015, all of the startup founders who were part of Imagine H2O's Accelerator had to bear with me as I had no idea what I was doing. One of those founders was Sivan Zamir. Four years later she was and remains the only person to go through the program twice, and mercifully, her feedback then was rather better. Now she's VP of Enterprise, Innovation and Venture at Xylem, Burnt Island Ventures’ anchor investor and a true partner. And Sivan has become a serious force in early stage water, taking on the enormous challenge of making a very large company very good at working with very small ones. She and her team not only set a new standard for corporate engagement with the startup community, we think they reinvented it. It has been fascinating to see how the ideas and principles of entrepreneurship are flowing into the wider Xylem organization as a result. She is a force of nature, an unyielding advocate for water and an astonishingly generous friend. Please enjoy my conversation with Sivan Zamir. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-7t3rt monthly 0.5 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/9747fd7c-506e-495f-9692-900a04126425/TFM_E44_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 44: Peter Brooks - Building an Infinite Compounding Machine - Out of 910 graduating students in the Class of 2014 from HBS, three went into water. Of those three, only Peter Brooks and I remain. And, meaning no offense to all our wonderful classmates, I'm glad it's him. Peter is just a really great guy. A former Marine, he worked across a variety of fascinating opportunities before setting up Sylmar Group. He and his partner Michael have been hard at work creating a compounding machine in water, building with an infinite holding period. And, as you will hear, it has developed exceptionally in the six years since it was founded. I have been looking forward to this for a long time because there are few people as thoughtful, practical, wise, self-effacing and talented as Peter. I was also amazed to find out that this is the first time he has talked about the Sylmar story on a podcast. So you're literally hearing it here first. Please enjoy my conversation with Peter Brooks. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-6cz43 monthly 0.5 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/a48d0b1c-6447-4070-af08-33044037eab4/TFM_E43_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 43: Allan Adams - The Science is the Easy Bit - It's always worth listening to someone's ‘why’ for doing something. What is their core motivation? Are they a tourist, or are they here for the long haul? When you combine a compelling ‘why’ with the right mix of technical brilliance, charisma, kindness, and energy, you get someone who looks and sounds a lot like Allan Adams. He is the founder and CEO of Aquatic Labs, who have made amazing strides in bringing lab chemistry into real time, eradicating one of the core monitoring problems that is profoundly bad in both water operations and ocean science. This is also the only conversation where the guest's idea of a misspent youth is teaching particle physics at MIT. He is genuinely amazing. Please enjoy my conversation with Allan Adams. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-j9ksc monthly 0.5 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/074d91ed-c16f-4576-9f8b-cec7779d951a/TFM_E42_EpisodeCover_V2+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 42: Matt Fitzgerald - Campaigns, MrBeast and Getting Arrested with your Grandmother - The saying, "Those who tell the stories rule the world," is such a core truth that it is both a quote from Plato and a Native American proverb - two entirely distinct societies coming to the same conclusion. We in water know that our inability to tell our story is one of the most frustrating aspects of the sector and one of, if not the most, negatively impactful. So what happens when you put water's story in the hands of two of the best storytellers and creators on the planet? Matt Fitzgerald is the campaign architect of #TEAMWATER, which, after #TEAMTREES and #TEAMSEAS, is the third major campaign from MrBeast, the world's largest YouTuber, and Mark Rober, the world's most prominent science YouTuber. #TEAMWATER's aim is to mobilize $40 million in one month in order to provide two million people with clean, safe, reliable drinking water for decades. It is one seriously entrepreneurial undertaking, and Matt is a remarkable guy. We thought it would be fascinating to sit down with him and find out how he thinks about pulling off something this audacious, and we were right - it was. Please enjoy my conversation with Matt Fitzgerald. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-ckr4g monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/ea68ab30-9429-42cd-918f-df958c9c9f36/TFM_E41_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 41: Mick O'Dwyer - Mandated, Recurring & Operationally Painful - Some people are born to drive their own bus. They have an idiosyncrasy of outlook that makes building their own thing inevitable. When these people run into a problem that they find both annoying and ridiculous and decide to solve it, good things happen. Mick O'Dwyer is one of those people. Even before BIV started, the second check I ever wrote, and first real one, was into his company, SwiftComply, and for good reason. He is a very serious entrepreneur in its most core sense. He's a taker of opportunities with, as you will hear, a clear attitude to risk, who delights in the wrestle of getting the thing done. As anyone who has met or shared a karaoke room with him will attest, he's also a great person to spend time with. The man could sell, and indeed has sold, Guinness to the Irish. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Mick O'Dwyer. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-sh9eb monthly 0.5 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/db8af1f5-5c2a-4950-afc2-4222354775ee/TFM_E40_EpisodeCover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 40: Pierre Côté - The Art of Useful Invention - Pierre Côté is arguably the most successful inventor and technologist in the industrial wastewater space. He has two ubiquitous technologies under his belt - the hollow fiber membrane and the membrane bioreactor, or MBR - and a third technology well on the way to becoming ubiquitous: the membrane aerated biofilm reactor, or MABR. Pierre is not only brilliant and a wonderful person, he is totally focused on finding practical solutions to persistent problems that are affordable and implementable. Pierre is now at it again with a new technology for dealing with nutrient pollution via an inexpensive algae biofilm process being brought to life through AlgaFilm, our 7th investment in our Second Fund. He is a profoundly thoughtful, modest, and wise man, and his advice for technical founders is particularly on point. Please enjoy my conversation with the great Pierre Côté. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-j5rpn monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/d1f8fd2c-fba5-4e45-8a01-08907463d39d/TFM+E39+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 39: Oliver Lawal - Sunburning Water is a Good Idea - At BIV, we have huge admiration for people who call their shot and are right. For all you hockey fans out there, it's people who ‘Gretzky’ to where the market is going to be and so are there when it arrives. Oliver Lawal is a fascinating entrepreneur. He saw something obvious - his words - and just went and built the thing and has made so many smart moves along the way. He's a truly thoughtful person, and there is a lot in this conversation for fellow entrepreneurs - from what ‘focus on the customer’ really looks like to how to build a team that never wants to do anything else. He also uses a phrase which has now entered the BIV lexicon: “There's a big difference between what I think is cool and what is actually helpful.” Never a truer word. It almost makes me forgive him for being a Spurs fan. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Oliver Lawal, CEO of AquiSense. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-6ccn6 monthly 0.5 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/f1b23e3f-269a-4e86-9cf6-bcaebe15897c/TFM+E38+Episode+Cover+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 38: Anne Mushow -Building a Utility Data Dragnet - There is so much that is dumb in water, but easily one of the dumbest is that in the US - let alone the rest of the world - 60 percent of meters are offline and need to be read by hand in 2025. It is an insane state of affairs, and we have had our eyes out for teams to solve it for literally years. Anne Mushow is the driving force behind the solution to this problem at Subeca. Taking over from the exceptional Patrick Keaney, she is a superb leader: practical, experienced, thoughtful, and so determined to banish the schleppiest of schlep work that is meter reading to the past. She spent a lot of time in this market, both in water at Sensus and Xylem, as well as experiencing hypergrowth at Amazon. Please enjoy my conversation with Anne Mushow. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-dm6br monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/8b7915e3-151c-4ea6-9d4e-8253f154f477/TFM+E37+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 37: Jonathan Jackson - Flooding, Fairness, and Sticking to Your Knitting - Flooding is becoming an increasingly obvious mega issue in the world today. It costs anywhere between $200 billion and $500 billion in the US alone each year. They're 31% of natural catastrophes and 1.8 billion people, about a quarter of the planet, live under flood risk. This is a nightmare for insurers who are raising their premiums in response, 17% last year in the US alone. But what if you could change the cost structure of this issue - where possible, allow homes and businesses enough lead time to take high value items out of harm's way, take the cars off the parking lot of the dealership and the goods off the warehouse floor? This can transform the insurance economics around flooding and is exactly what Previsico is doing. Jonathan Jackson is an exceptional entrepreneur now on his fourth company, and it was a pleasure to have him on The Fundamental Molecule to hear what he's building at Previsico and how he's building it. Please enjoy my conversation with Jonathan Jackson. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-ww5nh monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/7fc1edf2-a5c1-45f8-a84a-2f270eea81f9/Episode+36+Cover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 36: Craig Beckman - A Generational Shift in Membrane Design - One of the reasons why working in water is fun is the people who work in it - dedicated, driven, modest, self-effacing, hard working, but with a lightness that comes from doing something that really matters. Craig Beckman personifies these qualities and then some, and he also happens to be working on a generational - and I really do mean that it's once in a generation if the past is anything to go by - generational shift in the design of the spiral wound membrane module. Well, we'll go into it in the episode, but think of it as the basic building block, the workhorse of water treatment, a $4.6 billion a year market growing at 11%. Craig and his team have the opportunity to make something we all rely on, whether we know it or not, fundamentally better. It's such an exciting story from inception to development to their enormous production space they just moved into. But more than anything, Craig is a wonderful person to spend time with. Please enjoy my conversation with Craig Beckman. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-gepd4 monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/fb12a338-bbc4-430f-8322-3f23594a1e96/Episode+35+Cover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 35: Will Hewes - Managing Water for a Hyperscaler - It's no secret that the so-called "hyperscalers"—Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and others—are doing their hyperscaling in the context of the AI revolution. The pace of digital infrastructure buildout is mind-boggling—about $450 billion in 2024 and with no sign of slowing. All of this has implications for the water sector. So I wanted to talk to someone who is a) in the thick of this, and b) has been part of a hyperscaler's water work for some time. Will Hewes is a superb guy, a proper water veteran all the way from his undergrad work, and he took his considerable expertise in infrastructure into running water resources first at AWS, and now across all of Amazon. They have been at the forefront of basin-wide sustainability efforts, and it was so energizing to hear how an "intrapreneur" builds inside a company like Amazon, all the way down to how these individual projects get done. Please enjoy my conversation with Will Hewes. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-e4hsh monthly 0.5 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/ac69d3a1-e611-408c-a096-bfed97c6f019/TFM+E34+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 34: Shane Dyer -Iteration, Hiring, and Customer Voice - It's so fun when you feel like an investment has been dragged out of your hands. At the end of our deployment of our first fund, I was adamant that our final investments had to be blindingly obvious because the next best use of funds was to give more capital to companies we already knew were amazing. So when I met Shane Dyer, CEO of Irrigreen, the quality could not have been more obvious. Here was a multitime founder operating at a seriously high level, building around a product that was an absurdly large improvement on the status quo and which had the potential to save billions of gallons of water. It's been such a pleasure to watch him work, and it was deeply exciting to invest in them again as the third position in our Opportunity Fund. Please enjoy my conversation with Shane Dyer. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-cd9sk monthly 0.5 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/ea29b7d7-a7d3-44e5-b63d-a7959fc918e4/TFM+E33+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 33: Megan Glover - The Outside Becomes the Insider - When you hear a canary singing in the coal mine, you should stop and listen. Without torturing the metaphor too far, this is how I felt when I started working with Megan Glover at 120Water in 2017 as she started to build her business. The success of a business is predicated on the talent of the people running it, and Megan was important because she was one of the first brilliant CEOs who was truly new to water. She is at the vanguard of exceptionally smart, driven company leaders who appeared at the end of the 2010s and were the predicate essentially of BIV coming into being. We don't get to do our job without enough people as good as Megan. I love this conversation covering everything from strategic marketing to advice to board members. Please enjoy my conversation with my friend Megan Glover. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-s3lnx monthly 0.5 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/cf6f1488-935e-441f-ba93-df0624acfd30/Episode+32+Cover+%281%29.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 32: Alex Fuglesang -Turning Desalination Upside Down, Literally - Sometimes things just strike you as dumb and then one day you understand why. The current model of desalination is a great example. It's something that everyone thinks that we at BIV should be invested in up to the eyeballs, and, of course, we support technologies that are pertinent to desal, but the legacy model is just a tough nut to crack. Ever more scaled plants to minimize the per gallon cost of purified water is the name of the game. So when I met Alex Fugelsang and the full Flocean team, it was like a light bulb going off. Legacy desal was dumb for the simple reason you were pumping up onto land a whole load of water, putting all of it through a giant factory, having designed it for all of that water, then throwing at least 40% of it back into the ocean. So what if you could desalinate under the surface of the sea and get rid of all that excess capacity? You don't run into paradigm shifts all the time, but we think that Flocean is one of them. Alex is a superb guy with a fascinating skill set, having spent most of his life operating machinery at inhospitable depths, and he's on a remarkable mission to put a huge dent in global water insecurity. Please enjoy my conversation with Alex Fugelsang. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-sa3gg monthly 0.5 2025-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/9e8ca449-3e04-409d-9258-c694e5f39c15/Episode+31+Felicia+Marcus+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 31: Felicia Marcus - A Public Servant for Our Era - Felicia Marcus is one of the most significant public servants in water, having served on the Board of Public Works for the City of LA, served as Regional Administrator for the EPA in Region 9, COO of the Trust for Public Land and Western Director of the NRDC. As if that wasn't enough, she was also the Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board of California during the business end of the 2011-2017 California drought, which was rather scary and is now taking a “breather” as a Fellow at Stanford's “Water in the West Program.” Felicia is delightful, the speed of her mind matched only by the quality of her communication. We're so lucky to have such extraordinarily dedicated people who choose service when they could be doing a lot of different things, and the water sector is so much better off for it. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Felicia Marcus. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-9egpe monthly 0.5 2025-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/6d4929c8-1edd-4e96-972a-1b822778d9b9/TFM+E30+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 30: Scott Bryan - Pilots, Impact & Acceleration - I owe what I get to do every day here in a job I love to many people, but Scott Bryan really helped. In 2015, he took a chance on me to become the VP of Programming at Imagine H2O running the Accelerator, and it was a learning curve which laid the groundwork for what we do here at BIV. Scott is one of the most important figures in early stage water. Since 2010, he has built Imagine H2O into the premier accelerator for water entrepreneurs running three annual programs, and they announced their first pilot fund last year. All of this adds up to an enormous and rapidly growing degree of impact in water as the companies they backed and supported have revolutionized everything from groundwater management to flood insurance. Please enjoy my conversation with Scott Bryan. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-hggpk-xlg4c monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/040c9e37-38c3-4637-a5fc-bd3d07a2bb43/Episode+29+Cover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 29: Paul Hauffen - The Customer Inclusion Loop - True dyed-in-the-wool software pros are a valuable breed in water and Paul Hauffen is one of the best. A two-time entrepreneur, he sold his last company Sedaru, and, in a founding hiatus, is bringing his enormous experience to bear helping companies along their trajectory, partially as a BIV Venture Partner. Paul is a very wise man indeed and his insights on building solid foundations for companies, the hard yards of especially early sales and reference building, and the traps that founders can fall into are second to none. We're so lucky to work with him. Please enjoy my conversation with Paul Hauffen. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z monthly 0.5 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/6afb2faf-0a66-4d9c-9313-a6413def107f/Episode+28+Cover+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 28: Mudasser Iqbal - AI, Water and Institutional Memory - There is a lot going on in AI right now, from the travails of ChatGPT to the technology being essentially single handedly responsible for the surge of the so-called “Magnificent Seven” and therefore the overall S&P 500 in 2024. But what does it mean for water? Mudasser Iqbal is a career technologist and an exceptional guy, previous CEO of Visenti before its acquisition by our friends at Xylem in 2016, and he and his co-founders reformed to pursue the AI opportunity in water. TeamSolve is going after a tough problem, essentially aiming at solving the lack of easily accessible institutional memory and insight in water utilities using the power of AI. This is a fascinating run through the ins and outs of applying this technology and water, the practicality of problem solving, working with remote teams, maintaining customer focus and much, much more. Please enjoy my conversation with Mudasser Iqbal. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-zg2bz monthly 0.5 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/caa6a640-eac5-48e3-b779-5870093d5b84/TFM+E27+Episode+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 27: Debra Coy - Earnings Calls, Inflection Points, and Perspective - Over the last decade, I've been so lucky to learn from seriously good water people, and Debra Coy is one of the best. Over four decades, she has built an extraordinary body of work from public markets analyst to XPV, the preeminent water investing firm that has been extraordinarily supportive to us, to her current independent role advising and sitting on the boards of major water companies. She sits on the investment committee of our Opportunity Fund and it has been such a pleasure to benefit from her insight and wisdom as we have made our first two investments at the Series B. This is a really fun conversation. Everything from the lessons for founders, from earnings transcripts to lending her perspective on the overall history of private markets investing in water. Please enjoy my conversation with Debra Coy. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-86xhn monthly 0.5 2024-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/3d2014fd-de3c-4884-9fda-7fed5966e60d/Episode+Cover+Artwork.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 26: Guillaume Clairet - Operations, Rule-Breaking and Erin Brockovich - We all know about the CEO in a company. When the company is small, the CEO does everything, and when it's big, the CEO sets the vision, hires the right people and makes sure they have what they need to be successful. But what about a layer deeper than that? Guillaume Clairet is a fascinating example of a world class COO. Now he's too modest to be known as the power behind the throne, but he's the guy that makes sure what needs to be done gets done. And it's an interesting time for him after both the $395 million delisting of H2O Innovation by Ember Infrastructure and their acquisition of NextEra’s Distributed Water business. Along the way, H2O Innovation have done things their own way and have built an exceptional business and this is a fascinating insight into the practicality of that journey. Please enjoy my conversation with Guillaume Clairet. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-th3sd monthly 0.5 2024-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/aefbdf51-24e0-4d77-91c8-fee7cecf9846/TFM+Episode+25+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 25: Sarah Brody - From Oceans to McKinsey - It's always worth paying attention to top-level consultants as crucial advisors to their usually enormous clients. They have their finger on the pulse of the practical needs of the market and are responsive when they see critical mass in an area. Sarah Brody runs the North American water practice of McKinsey, which she has restarted in response to considerable client demand from mega-cap corporates to private equity firms. The mainstreaming of water advice for major clients is a very interesting leading indicator of the increasing attention being paid to the fundamental molecule. Sarah is a proper intrapreneur and has done exceptional work building the business on behalf of her clients. She really elucidates the role that firms like McKinsey play in this sector, and she has an excellent water origin story. Please enjoy my conversation with Sarah Brody. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-wsepy monthly 0.5 2024-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/f6f650b8-66c3-4097-a202-63cfa7abbc29/TFM_E24_EpisodeCover+3000px+-+Melvin+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 24: Michael Rigney - The Millenium Falcon of Heat Pump Water Heaters - The idea of an Overton Window when the conditions around a political issue change that in turn changes the nature of what is politically possible, is a useful one in assessing businesses. Sometimes conditions change enough in a market or sector that there is suddenly a significant window of opportunity for a founder to run through. We think that is the case with Michael Rigney, CEO of Cala Systems. They're building a next-generation heat pump water heater, and if they're right, they could save billions of gallons of water, reduce US national emissions by 3%, and save domestic energy consumers about $23 billion a year. We talk about the nature of the water heater market, competing against entrenched incumbents, and rebuilding a well-known consumer product from the ground up. He has major game in this segment and Cala are in a fascinating position. Please enjoy my conversation with Michael Rigney. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-bml94 monthly 0.5 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/65bbbeb4-4329-4497-972c-e49c390d8390/Episode+Cover+3000px.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 23: Ifetayo Venner - Gatekeepers, Big Infrastructure, and Leadership - It's nice to have friends in high places, and in water, there are few places higher than the presidency of the Water Environment Federation, the core trade body for the wastewater industry. Ifetayo Venner and I got to know each other in 2017 when we both spoke at the opening session of WEFTEC, WEF’s annual gathering for the wastewater world, and we spoke in a cavernous room filled with about 5000 pros talking through our stories of how we got into water. Ifetayo’s was a lot better than mine, and no surprise. She is an enormously accomplished professional, Past President of WEF and a Senior VP at Arcadis, the massive engineering consultancy. She has led the creation of some very serious projects in wastewater, and I wanted to have her on The Fundamental Molecule to help us understand the role of engineering consultancies in the sector, what the world looks like from her point of view, the opportunities in infrastructure renewal, and of course, her own path through all of it. She really is great. Please enjoy my conversation with Ifetayo Venner. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-m6z23 monthly 0.5 2024-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/54aa36cd-d0a1-4d9f-a1b3-1dfb607bd336/Episode+Cover+E22+Revised.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 22: Mae Stevens - Building the Case for Water on Capitol Hill - If I were to write a list of all the tricks we’re missing in water, it would be a lot, and somewhere near the very top would be lobbying - engagement with government on the federal and state level. I recognize we've made a lot of progress in the last five or six years in terms of securing capital for the required infrastructure renewal in the US, but there is a hell of a long way to go. But I look over the fence at energy, both legacy and renewables, healthcare, insurance, biotech, down to the gun lobby, and I can't help but think there is a massive gap between how effective we are in water and how effective we could be and how much more support for the fundamental molecule we would get if we were. Mae Stevens is a specialist lobbyist for water at Banner Public Affairs, and she recently joined us for our Founder Forum in DC alongside fellow lobbyist and longtime friend of BIV, Dan Kidera. She and he, they were both so good, and I wanted to have her on The Fundamental Molecule to help demystify this murky area of water at scale. Please enjoy my conversation with Mae Stevens. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-fptbl monthly 0.5 2024-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/d11b940a-29a9-4365-be78-6bfce8ad2702/Jorge+Richardson+-+Water+Access%2C+Reliability+and+Selfies+with+Bono The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 21: Jorge Richardson - Water Access, Reliability, and Selfies with Bono - Sometimes businesses pop up that take a bit of time to make sense. HOPE Hydration is one of those businesses. When I first met Jorge Richardson in 2021, he was chock full of confidence, like a lot of entrepreneurs in 2021, with an admirably aggressive plan, but I couldn't quite see it. And, fortunately, I was wrong. Make no mistake, this is an exceptional early company with the potential to transform a very large legacy part of the water sector. Jorge is also exactly the right person to build it. A rare combination of smarts, charisma, and a down to earth way of looking at the journey that can only come from a very specific blend of experiences, both positive and negative. We think they can be a huge part of the solution to the public water access problem, and this is a fascinating look into the early stages of building that solution. Hopefully, you'll get it faster than I did because we are seriously excited. They were our second investment in BIV Fund II. Please enjoy my conversation with Jorge Richardson. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-bjpbp monthly 0.5 2024-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/b8f9d91c-ef69-40a3-8110-37440b153715/Episode+20+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 20: Matt Rosenthal - Business Beneath Our Feet - There's an old saying from east London: “Where there's muck, there's brass.” Essentially, what this means is that the management of the dirtier side of life is invariably an opportunity for a decent business. Sewers are a big business. There are a million miles of them beneath our feet in the US, and about 300 million of them need to be inspected and cleaned every year. A serious undertaking. Matt Rosenthal, along with his Co-founder Billy Gilmartin, is building SewerAI in order to massively improve the process, efficiency, and accuracy of completing these inspections, and much more besides. As you will hear, he thinks as clearly about the fundamental job of an entrepreneur and leader as anyone we work with, and his pathway to building SewerAI was as entrepreneurial, honest, and compelling as any you will hear. Fitbit's loss was US sewer infrastructure’s gain. Please enjoy my conversation with Matt Rosenthal. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/uolpc4ogjf94qzin6baxca37qrzf0z-ryzzw monthly 0.5 2024-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/0293a48d-cde4-4635-8736-9b15583dc08d/Episode+E19+Cover.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 19: Peter Fiske - From Academic to Entrepreneur (and beyond) - Peter Fiske has packed a lot into his career, from being a rare successful academic to entrepreneur crossover to his current role as head of NAWI, the National Alliance for Water Innovation. He's just someone who loves building stuff, and he's done a lot from building and selling PAX Water Technologies to setting up the infrastructure for the radically improved coordination of US research into water technology. He's also one of the most energetic people I know - game recognize game - and one of the best communicators. Please enjoy my really fun conversation with Peter Fiske. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/o98w3spor9nni5469fxc9scb4baw7j monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/303dbc12-657e-4ff3-9d47-43a30c0eed25/Episode+18+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 18: Josh Mackanic - Making the Unseen Seen - It's well documented that we at Burnt Island Ventures love founder-market fit, but we really love it when it leads us to a founder and company that represents that fundamental leap forward in the operation of that market. Josh Mackanic is one of those founders. His two decades of experience in infrastructure has led him to build a platform people have talked about in the industry for a long time, but he and his team have been the ones to bring it to life. His deep knowledge of the infrastructure world is obvious in our conversation. We cover everything from the identification of the problem to how he thought through his fundraising process to how he sees the role of CivilGrid in unlocking a huge amount of friction in the wholesale infrastructure upgrade that the US requires in the coming decades. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Josh Mackanic. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/6p237bg0zs4k4rczb9wzrg9f49fwee monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/b8f8d148-8322-4dd1-a365-16371a031855/Episode+17+Artwork+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 17: Paul Vacquier - Trust, Crucibles, and Kevin Hart - We talk a lot about founder market fit. It's a crucial component of founder selection because of the simple fact that founders who really understand their industries are very unlikely to build something that people don't want. There is no gap between the perceived reality of their market and the actual reality of their market. An awful lot of venture funding is burned bridging that gap. Alongside his co-founder, Glenn, Paul Vacquier has built Beagle Services, a new generation of plumbing company, in direct response to his experience in attempting to roll out IoT units in the market, and it's going rather well. He is a powerful combination of litigator, salesman, and leader, wrapped in a cloak of relentlessness that is required for his market. And his market is rewarding his approach at increasing scale. You'll see why. Please enjoy my conversation with Paul Vacquier. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/elcpggp380gzds9bf7in59e17kd69z monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/8975d6b6-5e01-442e-a778-a6957dd2e6f7/Episode+E16+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 16: Matt Johnson - Constraints, Sequencing, and Finding the Fun - People do business with people they like, and Matt Johnson is one of the most likable people I have met in the last 10 years. He is a cocktail of curiosity, energy, reflectiveness, enthusiasm, and both left and right brains that come together in a genuinely compelling person. And his company is a reflection of him and his co-founders, Bibi and Isabel, and a phenomenally designed, user centric, cost effective solution for a pervasive problem, not only in water, but in real estate and all real assets as well. LAIIER have already secured leak detection contracts with two of the biggest companies in the world and have a good shot at becoming a new standard in building resilience. Their story is a fascinating study in entrepreneurship, and they're in a very interesting position indeed. Please enjoy my conversation with Matt Johnson. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/voqrwgke9z4h0rqrroap875ilubknl monthly 0.5 2024-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/7e06f2cb-be57-48e8-a367-a694087969d8/Episode+15+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 15: Nicole Neeman Brady - Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship and Public Service - Nicole Neeman Brady is a real standout in the world of water. An entrepreneur, an intrapreneur fund manager, mentor to countless emerging water professionals, she has packed a lot into her time in the sector. She's been an active managing director at with RRG Capital Management (RRG) where she was instrumental in the the raising and deployment of the $927 million sustainable Water Impact Fund, the largest of its kind ever. She is also a public servant of considerable standing, having just left the board of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which is the largest municipality in the US with an annual operating budget of $7.5 billion. And she previously served on the Colorado River Board of California. As you will hear, she's a deeply smart, generous, and reflective person with a fascinating career. Please enjoy my conversation with Nicole Neeman Brady. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/321jz7v91hwevubascnkohlstwdpv7 monthly 0.5 2024-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/d43bd0fb-47e7-4d6a-a6de-fb6d45e52fd5/TFM_EpisodeCover_E14+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 14: Steve Kloos - Thinking Right to Left - In 2015, we still used those table speakers for conference calls. Remember those? Kind of looked like a spaceship. I had just started at Imagine H2O, and the first external call I had on my second day was with someone who was very highly regarded by my colleagues. That someone was Steve Kloos, partner at True North Venture Partners, previously at GE Water and Osmonics. Over the following eight years, Steve became a friend, mentor, colleague, and through an annual seminar for IH2O companies that he ran, probably the single biggest influence on how I and the team thought about the science of early stage company creation and entrepreneurship. I was so grateful for his support through the formation of BIV Fund I, and it was a wonderful moment when we saw the possibility of working together. Along with Christine joining, BIV has now entered a new phase, and one that sets us up excellently for the long term. We have a three-person partnership of complementary skills and backgrounds, and it's tremendously exciting to have Steve join us. He's an exceptionally smart, kind person with a hell of a resume and is one of the highest integrity individuals I've had the pleasure of working with. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/ep-13-reinhard-hbner-acquisition-connection-and-contrarianism monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/39ea449a-d56f-4785-b61b-93d6ce66c6cf/TFM_EpisodeCover_E13+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 13: Reinhard Hübner - Acquisition, Connection and Contrarianism - It's important to have people you look up to in the industry you choose. And by "look up to," I mean to be consistently, wildly impressed by what they're building, their intellect, their clarity of thought, their track record, and how they comport themselves. Reinhard Hübner is one of those people for me. As the CEO at SKion, he has built an undeniably impressive platform, yielding $700 million in global revenues and with no signs of slowing down. They know exactly how big their opportunity is. And he and his partner, Dirk Brusis, have built an interlinking set of companies, solutions, and technologies to really go after it. Please enjoy my conversation with the excellent Reinhard Hübner. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/7f12mk9g740t7oi6vn7mw2s3qe593e monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/5c893e5c-5c3f-41a1-9a39-7be08e2392c7/TFM_EpisodeCover_E12.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 12: Anthea Sargeaunt - Transforming Water Management Through Real-Time Sensing - Multivariate, real-time non-contact sensing is one of the holy grails of water management. Getting it right will allow all stakeholders to understand what is in their water in real time. And if we can get it really right, this knowledge will allow a host of improvements in water management, including reduced chemical and energy use, reduced pollution, reduced fines, improved health outcomes, improving the pace and cadence of experimentation with new technology. The list is very long indeed. Anthea and her team have taken a fascinating pathway from problem selection to massively leveraging their equity through grants. She is an exceptional founder and person and one of the best founder communicators I have met. I loved her insights into the importance of public speaking as you're building a company. Please do enjoy my conversation with the excellent Anthea Sargeaunt. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/cmtkkfiswgx2dkfes4j8080m5udxow monthly 0.5 2024-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/a4e53aa7-5e44-48ae-9053-bbc25696c4a6/TFM_EpisodeCover_E11+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 11: David Stanton - Lessons from Four Decades in Water - When I started Burnt Island Ventures, I needed help. I needed help of all kinds. But one of the things I needed most as a first-time fund manager was credibility in the decision-making process. David Stanton agreed to become a member of our investment committee, and he put a crucial brick in the BIV credibility wall. In this episode, you will see why. David is deeply experienced in startups, growth companies, and corporates, and he now runs Cleanwater1, hired by Baird Capital after they purchased UGSI in 2022. I have learned so much from David, from management tactics to market assessment, and I know you will too. Please enjoy my conversation with David Stanton. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/vt04msbe21033x0qaywggmwhcyqg3v monthly 0.5 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/1d242396-0dad-4300-ad50-f65196e0544d/TFM_EpisodeCover_E10+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 10: Adam Tank - From Corporate to Startup. Twice. - Sometimes it's awkward when someone you admire becomes a friend. It's even more awkward when you find out that somehow they're younger than you. Adam Tank is one of the clearest thinking, hardest working, and humblest guys in water. From the early leadership program at GE, to founding and exiting a robotics company, to leading the commercial operations of Transcend, a breakout AI company, his career has been a fascinating trajectory through the water sector. He's also a phenomenal communicator, and his podcast with Jim Lauria, Water We Talking About? (get it?) is one of the most accessible and thoughtful out there. What a pleasure to have him on the other side of the microphone. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/yk714bxd2kh8ouc3n93sw8v2fmnag3 monthly 0.5 2024-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/b55af8c6-a3da-4fae-a149-2a8dd93c9dae/TFM_EpisodeCover_E09+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 9: John Bertrand - Founder/Market Fit Leading to Product/Market Fit - John Bertrand is our kind of founder, a wastewater engineer who has operated inside and outside the utility fence - he understands his market upside down. What he saw in his time in the utility world led him to wonder if the messy world of managing the constant stream of incoming data from utility customers - calls, text messages, 311 alerts, voice messages, web forms - could be automated, freeing up the dedicated professionals who traditionally handle this work to focus on more important tasks. And so, teaming up with his co-founder Ryan, they started Daupler, which now serves more than 85 customers - not only water and wastewater utilities, but full municipalities, police and fire dispatch, power companies, and restoration companies. There is a giant opportunity here to build the field operating system for the built environment. And John is consistently impressive, not only in pushing the company to the verge of 5 million in bookings, but the originality and logic of his thought. He really is a diamond. Please enjoy my conversation with John Bertrand. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/qu2s50is7gbxnk01emek32b2ixkcmw monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/95d8ab87-980e-40de-88a1-1646a3456a82/TFM_EpisodeCover_E08+%281%29.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 8: Tyler Henke - The Community Around a Product - People always bang on about disruption, and usually it's meaningless. Some very rare founders should bang on about disruption because they're actually doing it, but don't. I like to think it's humility, but more importantly, it's because they decided to go and solve a real, deeply felt problem in the market, usually in an overlooked sector, and happened upon a deeply powerful pathway of company building. Tyler Henke, CEO of Ziptility, is one of those founders. He and his team noticed that the market, and especially the software market, didn't build, excuse my French, anything useful for the people who make the small communities of America function - the utility operators. They were forced to run these systems according to whatever needed fixing that morning with post-it notes, bits of paper, and if they were lucky, a 1997 Dell PC. Tyler correctly saw the potential for an excellently designed, mobile-first, user-generated operating system that could help these amazing professionals do their jobs easier, better, cheaper, more collaboratively, and reliably. He's an amazing guy, and it's an amazing platform. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/bw0jwqzgpkq4w6l3fl86wh8fcphd1q monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/63b9a996-d391-4219-b494-ac4c770d0c35/TFM_EpisodeCover_E07+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 7: Matt Swindle - Powerful Moats in Overlooked Markets - Persistence is an underrated quality of the best entrepreneurs. VCs never think they underrate it, but they do. The public only ever sees the glory and fireworks when an entrepreneurial story works. But it's the application, the effort, the persistence that lies behind every great outcome that is the primary determinant of that outcome. Matt Swindle, the CEO and co-founder of NLine Energy, has it in spades. Not only did he attain the rank of Colonel in the Marine Corps, a rank he retains in the reserves, he and his team are building a potentially enormous company. Quietly and methodically, NLine Energy has the potential to turn every sizable boiler in the world into a power plant - don't worry, he will explain - while another vertical of the business is the best small hydro remediation assessment and upgrade team in the country, if not the world. It's a super business. The return for the customers is enormous. Their moat is physics. The tailwinds are global and intense, and it's such a pleasure to learn from Matt as he puts one foot in front of the other. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/6nev4389l3i9rewihex5ldpokdpn00 monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/7b6991f9-7ce9-4bfc-a8e8-e159eb689216/V2.2+-+Melvin+Amoyo.png The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 6: George Hawkins - A Study in Transformation - George Hawkins is one of those people who always elicits a smile from those who know him when he comes up in conversation, even when he's not there. The smile also comes when he is present, but the absence of the smile is telling. He is perhaps one of the most admired figures in the US water market, and possibly even in the global market, and for good reason. His work in turning around DC Water from the least trusted public entity in Washington DC to the most trusted in just eight years is one of the best business transformation case studies in history, and unfortunately, not enough people are aware of it. Since stepping down from DC Water, he has become a founder with Moonshot Missions, supporting under-resourced utilities in undergoing the same kind of transformation that he led at DC Water. He has learned the challenges and difficulties of bringing something new into the world. He is a practical, fun, energetic, insightful, sensible, and demanding leader to his core. It is truly a pleasure to welcome him to The Fundamental Molecule. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/btri6hpr5783uhlzmgv4y4anwpnz9c monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/667a00fd-8872-4a0f-ba1b-997b3b5b8fcc/TFM_EpisodeCover_E05_V2+-+Ken+Amoyo.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 5: Wayne Byrne - 4x Startups to Exit - Repeat entrepreneurs are a special breed. They have essentially proved that they operate through skill and not luck, and Wayne Byrne is one of the most skillful. I met him in 2015 in San Francisco as he was picking up one of many awards for OxyMem as they built towards their acquisition by DuPont, his fourth exit in an illustrious career. He's been able to play both the hardware and software games at a very high level indeed, and has been an invaluable source of advice and support, both for me personally and for the Burnt Island. Please enjoy my conversation with Wayne Byrne. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/50bt5ykh6j8agghsj6vft4vo1y39fy monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/910f5d00-279a-45ec-9fbf-284d1e06d405/TFM_EpisodeCover_E04_V2.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 4: Christine Boyle - Dialing in on a Pain Point - I first met Christine Boyle about a week before I specialized in water at Imagine H20's annual winners announcement, where she was receiving the award for Best Early-stage Water Company in 2015. Fast forward almost eight years, she has been an extraordinary guide and mentor, and now a Partner at BIV. After selling her company Valor Water Analytics to Xylem in 2018, she remained with the company to head up much of their internal digital innovation efforts. She understands more than most the grind of company building in the space, building a market-leading product, picking your way through the utility sales process, hiring and managing brilliant teams. A veteran of both Y Combinator and Techstars, she also has an invaluable perspective on the standards for company building outside water. She's just excellent. Please enjoy my conversation with Christine Boyle. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/ep-3-alex-rappaport-the-power-of-entrepreneurial-process monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/5a9a55fa-1d58-4819-92a1-19f3af6f7153/TFM_EpisodeCover_E03_V2.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 3: Alex Rappaport - The Power of Entrepreneurial Process - You don’t often meet someone that you immediately know you’ll remember where and when you met them for a very long time. That happened to me with my guest today, Alex Rappaport, CEO of ZwitterCo. At a conference in 2018, a coiled ball of energy introduced himself to me, and it was clear that this was a very talented founder indeed. Since we invested in ZwitterCo in April 2021, Alex and his team have made remarkable strides in redrawing the map of industrial water reuse. He thinks as clearly as anyone about the process of company building, the structure of his market and the positioning of his product. Please enjoy my conversation with Alex Rappaport. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/ep-2-mirka-wilderer-taking-a-water-company-to-ipo monthly 0.5 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/5be99197-4bd0-4698-bdff-3f9705892bc0/Screen+Shot+2023-11-29+at+11.46.56+AM.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 2: Mirka Wilderer - Taking a Water Company to IPO - This is a podcast about entrepreneurs. Given that, our guest today might be a little unexpected. Mirka Wilderer is the archetypal corporate innovator, having spent her career with some of the biggest names in the space. Until last year, she was CEO of De Nora and led the IPO of the Italian company. Under her tenure, De Nora evolved into a force in the water market globally, especially in the US and increasingly in Southeast Asia. She's a model professional and, as you will hear, deeply insightful on the science, management, team, motivation, and strategy. All company builders can learn from her example. Please note that at the time of recording, Mirka was still the CEO of De Nora, though she announced her resignation shortly afterwards, and is now the CEO of Bain Capital-backed AqueoUS Vets. Please enjoy my conversation with Mirka Wilderer. https://www.burntislandventures.com/the-fundamental-molecule/reinventing-flood-insurance monthly 0.5 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f45884c04871671385c415a/8507a2b3-7671-4d65-8e59-8d0097b9ef47/TFM_EpisodeCover_E01_V2.jpg The Fundamental Molecule - Ep. 1: Bessie Schwarz - Reinventing Flood Insurance - It's always so fun seeing great companies being built for the right reasons. Bessie Schwarz, CEO of Floodbase, has been on a mission to help the world's most vulnerable people since her early 20s. Her company is not only the flood monitoring partner of FEMA and the United Nations, she is also forging a quiet revolution in the insurance industry, helping to bring parametric flood insurance (long mooted but not feasible until now) to reality. Their announcement last year alongside one of the world’s leading reinsurers of the provision of parametric flood insurance for the rural farmers of Colombia is a world first. Alongside her co-founder Beth, they are building a company with enormous impact and commercial potential. Plus, she's awesome. 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