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• Reading Note

Flow Batteries Resurgent?

I’ve been pitched by numerous flow battery companies in my days as a deeptech/climatetech investor. The promise of the technology has always been: * Long cycle life (the number of charge-discharge cycles you can do before the performance degrades) * Easy to scale: you want 2x the storage? Just get 2x the electrolyte! * Low fire risk: most flow batteries use water-based...

• Essay

Why Tech Success Doesn’t Translate to Deeptech

Having been lucky enough to invest in both tech (cloud, mobile, software) and “deeptech” (materials, cleantech, energy, life science) startups (and having also ran product at a mobile app startup), it has been striking to see how fundamentally different the paradigms that drive success in each are. Whether knowingly or not, most successful tech startups over the last decade...