The Capitalist Hippie

Why This Startup Bet on Boats—and Found a $16 Billion Market Hiding in Plain Sight

Apr 10, 2025

The Capitalist Hippie (Formerly Someone Like You)

Photon is building electric propulsion systems for commercial boats—and unlocking a $16B market in the process.

In this episode, founders Marcelino Alvarez and Alana Kambury share how a focused go-to-market strategy, real-world use cases, and deep hardware-software...

The White Gold Rush: Disrupting Lithium Mining

Mar 20, 2025

Lithium demand is skyrocketing, but traditional extraction methods are water-intensive, expensive, and slow. That’s where Lithios comes in. In this episode, founder Mo Alkhadra reveals how his breakthrough technology is making lithium extraction faster, cleaner, and more cost-effective—unlocking new resources to...

Why the Future of Every Job is a Climate Job

Mar 5, 2025

What happens when a Google engineer walks away from a high-paying career to fight the climate crisis? He discovers a massive, overlooked problem: there aren’t nearly enough people working on climate solutions—yet millions want to be. In this episode, Eugene Kirpichov, co-founder and executive director of Work on...

Nature's Anti-Freeze: Bringing an Agricultural Breakthrough to Market

Feb 19, 2025

In this episode, we explore the cutting-edge science helping farmers fight back against extreme weather. Marco sits down with Sue Abrams and Jerome Konecsni of ABAzyne Bioscience, the brilliant minds behind a revolutionary plant-based solution that helps vineyards and orchards withstand cold temperatures and...

From Nonprofit Beginnings to Global Impact: The Carbon Run Journey

Feb 5, 2025

Stripe, Shopify, and Google are some of the world’s most innovative companies that are working with Carbon Run. Why? Because temporary solutions to climate change, like tree-planting credits, aren’t enough anymore. Carbon Run has stepped up with a revolutionary approach that delivers permanent carbon...