Ramanan Raghavendran

John Kim

I interviewed Dr. Genevieve Guenther on April 13, 2022. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below.

Research Interviews

Interview: Five Questions With Genevieve Guenther on Climate Communication

Two months ago Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The world continues to watch in horror as cities are bombed into oblivion and millions of people are forcibly displaced from their homes. 

Deep Dives

Deep Dive: War, Environment, and Climate

I interviewed Dr. Tim Lenton on April 1, 2022. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below.

Interview: Five Questions with Tim Lenton on Earth's Systems

I interviewed Dr. Daniel Aldana Cohen on March 23, 2022. A highlights video and the full transcript of our conversation are below.

Interview: Five Questions with Daniel Aldana Cohen on Inclusive Climate Solutions

I interviewed Dr. Robert H. Frank on February 1, 2022. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below. 

Interview: Five Questions with Robert Frank on Social Norms

I interviewed Dr. Katy Milkman on October 14, 2021. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below.

Interview: Five Questions with Katy Milkman on Planet-Friendly Habits

On Tuesday, we completed the fourth and last teaching module of AxBC, our cohort-based course on behavior change for founders in the climate and sustainability spheres.

Programs

AxBC: Reflections After Our First Cohort

Some time ago, in the context of our investment in Clarity, I wrote briefly about air pollution. Thanks in part to our involvement with Clarity, I’ve learned a great deal more about air pollution. It has served only to increase my sense of urgency.

Climate

Getting Local: Air Pollution

I interviewed Dr. Tim Jackson on September 14, 2021. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below. 

Interview: Five Questions with Tim Jackson about Post-Growth

I interviewed Dr. Juliet Schor on February 24, 2021.  A highlight video, the full video, and the full transcript of our conversation are below.

Interview: Five Questions with Juliet Schor on Connected Consumption

TL;DR: The most recent IPCC report is comprehensive, impressive, frightening, and a monument to both the scientific endeavor and humanity’s own ability to analyze and interpret what our planet is telling us. But it is not perfect, and here we want to touch on four key questions that arose as we read through it.

The IPCC Report: Four Critiques

I interviewed Dr. Narasimha Rao on February 17, 2021. A highlight video and the full transcript of our conversation are below. 

Interview: Five Questions with Narasimha Rao about Energy + Collective Wellbeing

Amasia invested in Finch's pre-seed round in May. Finch decodes products’ environmental impacts through a browser extension and provides digestible content on how people can reduce their environmental footprint. This represents our third investment in environmental data (“R1” in our framework), following our investments in Clarity and Joro.

Investments

Amasia’s Investment in Finch

Amasia co-led Pipeline’s seed round in April, continuing our focus on remote learning. We look forward to working with co-founders Stephen Eliis (aka Snoopeh) and David Steinberg (aka StoneMountain64). Here I provide a bit more on why we are enthused about the company.

Amasia’s Investment in Pipeline

Amasia   invested in   Super’s   Series B round in April. The   $28m round   was led by Softbank Ventures Asia. We led the Series A last year, and my partner John Kim serves on the company’s board of directors. Here I want to provide a bit more context for our involvement.

Amasia’s Investment in Super

I interviewed Kevin Ummel on February 4, 2021. A quick video summary and the full video interview are below, along with a full transcript.

Interview: Five Questions with Kevin Ummel about Lowering Consumption

Amasia invested in Corrily’s seed round in March (as part of the YCombinator Demo Day process). This aligns with our continued interest in the remote services space. We are excited to work with CEO Abel Riboulot and co-founder & CTO Andrej Žukov Gregorič.

Amasia’s Investment in Corrily

I interviewed  Dr. Leidy Klotz  on October 30, 2020. A quick video summary and the full interview are below, along with a full transcript.

Interview: Five Questions with Leidy Klotz about Subtraction

What if your morning cuppa could change the world? You'll be amazed at how much coffee affects the climate.

Climate Vlogs

Coffee & Climate

I interviewed  Dr. Jack Liu  on October 30, 2020. The interview is in the “five questions” format that we squeeze into fifteen minutes — we know everyone is busy. The video has sections you can jump to, and has captions that can be turned on. It is followed by a full transcript.

Interview: Five Questions with Dr. Jack Liu about (Unexpected) Connections

Amasia invested in Living Food’s seed round in December, and my partner John Kim joined the board. This represents our first investment in an Indian company and the second in the food sector. We’re excited to work with the team, and here I want to explain why. 

Amasia's Investment in Living Food

Part I: How We Got Here   In 1905, Albert Einstein stated that the speed of light was fixed for all time and space.  The equations of special relativity — verified endlessly since  his landmark paper  was published 115 years ago — imply that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. This fa

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