Marisa Sweeney @sweenenergy Twitter profile

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Marisa Sweeney

2 years

if you were devising an ultimate clean energy / climate tech / decarbonization must read book list, what would you put on it?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

do y’all also say hi to ivanpah when you fly over it or are you a normal clean energy professional?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

these are the texts i like to receive ⚡️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

Energy twitter, I humbly present you the cleantech & sustainability company name generator because we all could use a bit of levity these days! #cleantech #renewables

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Having started with the @GenerateCapital team ~5 years ago, it’s phenomenal to see what we have achieved; I am so excited for what the next 5 years will bring as we invest to build the critical infrastructure required for the energy transition ⚡️

Generate Capital Collects $2 Billion for New Bets on Sustainable Infrastructure

The latest round was twice the amount the San Francisco-based investment firm raised just before the pandemic hit.

www.wsj.com

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

We need more women in investing — principal investing, private equity, venture capital, all of it.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

My NY finance friends believe that I’ve transformed into a woo woo west coast hippie and my CA tech(ish) friends think I’m a savage who works ~way too much and I’m just like “climate change is the imminent threat to our humanity🤘” and that usually shuts errybody up. 🤐

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

⚡️Extremely grateful to be included and recognized on @ForbesUnder30 List for Energy with some amazing folks including my good friend Jacob Sandry who I met at @GenerateCapital when I first joined in 2016. Particularly appreciative for the kind folks who nominated me 🙏🏻

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Last night was the 2nd gathering of Women in Climate Investing & Finance in SF - I am still so exhilarated: 50+ stellar women made it out!!! Looking forward to making this quarterly & continuing to build the community of women doing this work; we NEED more women moving capital

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

i find many NFT projects visually underwhelming and to put it bluntly, a bit ugly. this is specifically *not* the case w @crypto_coven - these witchy wonders are absolutely d r e a m y ✨

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Things critical in fighting climate change: electrifying everything; rapidly deploying proven technologies in renewable power generation and energy efficiency; commercializing new tech solutions for deep decarb Things less critical in fighting climate change: a smug attitude 😇

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Really grateful for discovering @crypto_coven - a wonderful project & community that has helped anchor my foray into exploring Web3 & NFT landscape— isn’t she dreamyy 🔮 Neptune the Quick is a Taurus w heterochromia 💙🤎 Georgia approves.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Excited to share that I will be joining @beondeck 's second Climate Tech Cohort! 🎉- thanks @ShanuMathew93 for getting me involved 🤘

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Tonight was the premiere of Women in Climate Investing & Finance in NYC…. We had nearly 80 women turn out! (WOW!!) - women in VC, PE, credit, grad school, & more. Special thank you to @VinsonandElkins for hosting our crew. We will look to make this a quarterly get together ⚡️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

a brilliant friend is pursuing a move into climate - she spent 8 years in big 3 consulting working with the military and govt. she is excited about strategy and operational transformation. would anyone be open to connecting with her to talk through the next phase of her career?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

if you’re not consuming *at least* one thoughtfully articulated and well reasoned opinion that is *opposed* to a belief/thesis you hold, you’re doing yourself an intellectual disservice.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

spit my drink out @JigarShahDC

The Sunion

@thesunionnews

3 years

Jigar Shah Spotted At Warriors Game Firing “DOE Title XVII Loan Program” T-Shirts Into Crowd

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

2022 i have one plea: bring back the audio only conference line as the default norm !!!!

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

joyfully celebrating 6 years at @GenerateCapital today— it’s been a heck of a ride, and still so much more to do to advance the Resource Revolution ⚡️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

in my ~covid doesn’t exist~ dreams, Women jn Climate Investing & Finance throws a very glam black tie gala in Q4 — how do we feel about this? ✨

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

the we were on the 5 in traffic when we learned that history making climate legislation was passed moment !!!!!

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

upstate new york (and specifically the finger lakes region) is a beautiful and imho highly underrated part of the country

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

On my second Oakland —> SF ferry ride commute since I moved to Jack London and our offices relocated to downtown SF. Let me tell ya: this is hands down the best commute of my life 😍 I am all about optimizing for daily moments of joy and this is exactly that…

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

It’s inspiring that @LynnJurich started Sunrun @ 27 ! What a boss individual - ive read this profile a few times since it was published and every time I am blown away.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

“I would like to see something like a clean steel standard” - @ramez — hitting on a really key point, ultimately the path to decarbonization touches EVERY sector; for heavy industrial applications there is so much that needs to happen over the next few decades.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Real-life example of my fam giving me unconditional support: mom, dad, and sis just rolled DEEP into a nerdy Sat AM Clubhouse chat on Building Climate Wealth that I helped moderate with @JigarShahDC - we talked ERCOT markets and serving LMI customers. That’s love y’all! 😭♥️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

mood

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

@duncan__c @BrosForDecarb it’s me - tricky i know

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

🎙Launching a podcast in the fall with my fabulous co-host and sister, Catherine - we will focus on career dev + our passion of exploring interesting topics by asking smart folks too many questions, featuring guests working in climate, impact, finance, and w/e else we find cool

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

When anyone asks a project finance professional about their merchant revenue assumptions after the contracted period 😂

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Received this timeless New Yorker cartoon from a senior woman in climate investing that I admire - it is an “oldie but a goodie” and I will always repost it when it finds its way back to me

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

11 months

I let someone down gently tonight at a @ClimateWeekNYC networking event when they mistook me for the inimitable @leahstokes 😅 must be the glasses.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

11 months

Commuting by ferry = major life satisfaction unlock

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

10 months

I feel 100 y/o when I text my friends “I have no dietary restrictions and preferences and am generally cool with whatever for dinner, but if it’s too loud and I can’t hear you talk, I am going to really struggle 😭”

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

Re: Technology solutions for decarbonization, “I am for everything and against nothing...” 👏 @JigarShahDC

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

IMHO: Snarky tweets about trees is an off the mark take on @elonmusk ‘s carbon capture challenge. Why are people so intent on saltiness? Exhausting! That haterade will poison ya.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Y’all geek out over seeing EVs on the road or am I the only yelling “it’s a rivian!!” at random

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

Y’all have got to read this blog - the Unglamorous Approach to Impact Investing in Energy ! So on point and I’m not just saying that bc it supports all of my beliefs + makes a great single link reply to the “wHy dOnT yOu dO VC? peeps lol -

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

are you ever overwhelmed by how many different things you want to learn more about ? i have so many curiosities and so many questions! i am so grateful to have a career where i am constantly getting schooled on stuff that i am interested in.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Connecting likeminded women invested in fighting climate change IS my love language. One week out fr the fall gathering of Women in Climate Investing & Finance in SF, CA on 10/28💃 - please reach out if you'd like to attend!

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

✨I am organizing a Women in Climate Investing drinks event next Thursday in SF — please reach out if you (or someone you know - friend, colleague, favorite - might be interested in attending)✨🌎

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

@MarkTomasovic COD, NTP, PTO, IX, AC/DC, ITC, PTC, AHJ, SREC, ISO, kW(h), MW(h), PURPA, FERC, PUC, LCOE, BOP, EPC

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

ferry commute is the superior commute

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

1,000? nah, help her get 10,000 followers - this is so dope

Nicole Kelner

@NicoleKelner

3 years

Lithium-ion batteries

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

It's an exciting day at @GenerateCapital -- we have officially converted to a PBC "Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation makes the company’s charter consistent with the core values we have espoused since our founding in 2014"

Generate Capital Converts to a Public Benefit Corporation

Generate Capital converts to a Public Benefit Corporation following a vote of the company’s board and shareholders

www.businesswire.com

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

i’m sorry, but my grandma is *the best*

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Most wonderful time of the year ☃️…. “Let’s connect after the new year” time 🍾

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Another always share when I see it

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

questions on my mind every morning over past year: who will be revealed as the Theranos(es) of Climate Tech? How long will it take? What will trigger? How do we prepare as an industry?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

as a queer identifying person, i find the way the GOP&co is tuning the propaganda machine on the anti-gay / anti-trans rhetoric extremely alarming - who needs a dog whistle when you have a finely tuned algorithmic engine to mainline fear mongering content direct to your base

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

1 year

Delighted to announce that I am starting a new chapter at @seed2growth working on our Special Opportunities strategy! After an incredible ~7 year run @GenerateCapital (and a refreshing sabbatical), I’m excited for this new adventure and look forward to reconnecting with folks.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Evergreen

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Marisa Sweeney

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Heading into @GenerateCapital ’s NYC office for the first time and I have never been more thrilled to be on the LIRR 😭 this New Yorker has waited a long time (~5 years) for this day 🤘

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Stopped following the “venture capital” topic on Twitter and my life has been more peaceful

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

obsessed @NicoleKelner !! thank you so much for this gorgeous design ♥️ we are roadtrip ready for LA launch of @WomenClimateFin

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Why doesn’t health insurance cover gym memberships if you prove attendance 3x per week? I don’t get it

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

My dog brings me so much joy it’s kind of absurd 😭

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

Super informative profile of @GenerateCapital in the WSJ today! Our unique approach to financing allows us to align the interests of project stakeholders for the long haul - our investment horizon is forever⚡️

Generate Capital Takes Road Less Traveled in Sustainable Infrastructure

Generate Capital looks beyond the traditional private-equity fund model in its quest to solve what it sees as the biggest challenge of sustainable-infrastructure investing: aligning the interests of...

www.wsj.com

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

“I want to hire more women and POCs, but it’s hard to find candidates! Do you have any recommendations for X position?” I respond with recs, but I often want to say: what are you doing to keep your network of women/POC in our field fresh? Are you going out of your way to mentor?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Sums up venture capital’s general struggle in climatetech as well 🙃

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

So on brand it hurts

Mike Munsell

@mikemunsell

3 years

I got a kick out of today’s @CanaryMediaInc correction featuring @JulianSpector and @drvolts

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

15% thru @johndoerr 's Speed & Scale. Must read for folks contemplating career pivots into ClimateTech: useful landscape mapping + practical anecdotes covering success/failures. If you're feeling overwhelmed on content & attempting to boil the ocean; this is a good place to start

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Style conscious friends: fight fast fashion by heavily normalizing, encouraging, and praising “outfit repeating”

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

my favorite sport is watching women make money

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

1 year

lol if people cared about quality pants to the level derek does, we would have a lot less textile waste

derek guy

@dieworkwear

1 year

sometimes i see someone doing genuinely important work, like a climate scientist, follow me, and i think "we're going to die if you dont figure this out and you're reading about pants??"

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Simply the best @apoorv_bh89 ⚡️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

LOL okay this needs to stop

The Sunion

@thesunionnews

3 years

$10m Deal Hinging On DocuSign Request Clearing Local Farmer's AOL Spam Filter

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

1 year

💧Hetch Hetchy turned 100 this year! the reservoir has an absolutely fascinating history. Motivated by a strong desire to secure better water supply after the 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed 80% of the city, San Francisco secured the right to develop the project in 1908..

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Merry merry fr the Sweeney Ladies ✨ the sparkle top tradition lives on

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

I will always repost this when I see it ⏳

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Ya know, Atkins was really ahead of the curve on this whole decarbonization thing 🥯

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

over the last 2 years i feel a heightened fatigue from the multiple “inboxes” in my personal life: slack workspaces, whatsapp, iMessage, signal, discord, linked in DMs, twitter, messenger, IG DMs… a friend went to email/phone call only model which is inspiring /tempting / scary

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

How do people use Google Sheets as a sincere excel substitute ??? 🤯

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

9 months

Christmas came early @LucidMotors

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

🚨 on Meatless Monday the Starbucks Impossible Sausage Egg Breakfast sandwich is $2 off!!! what an unexpected thrill; try yours today. not sponsored, just passionate about this sando. save me your anti Bucks sentiments, i have heard them all and i do not care

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

For now and the rest of my days, I am going to do whatever I can to enable / support / recruit / transition more women into principal investing roles... it is SO needed.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

very grateful to hear from @KatherineBlunt on her new book California Burning last night. so much to wrestle with in considering the role of utilities moving forward as the grid everywhere becomes more distributed - looking forward to diving into the book this coming month 📖🐛

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

10 months

📢 happy birthday to the homie @apoorv_bh89 - #energytwitter (and many many IRL peeps) are so grateful you’re here leading on climate solutions and educating others along the way ♥️🔋

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Frankly, this is the balance of uplifting and hilarious that I’m trying to get every day ♻️

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

11 months

Normally, it would be very embarrassing to pull up at the party wearing the same fit as another guest! We are proudly wearing @NicoleKelner 🎨

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

9 months

✍️ 🌎I am building out my global decarbonization and energy transition site visit bucket list … what sites should be on it (hehe, and ofc who has the hook up 👀)? Here’s me last summer on top of CopenHill in Denmark - the waste to energy plant with a ski slope

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Worth a listen - *particularly* if you have started working in the sector over the past ~2 years. @ramez and @shaylekann break down the lessons/debates/narratives related to financing deep tech that are alluded to by many (especially OGs), but often not clearly outlined.

Canary Media

@CanaryMediaInc

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In the first episode of @CatalystPod , host @shaylekann is joined by @ramez to discuss the hard lessons of investing in climatetech. Listen now:

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

100% of the people who mix up correlation with causation end up dead

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

I was TODAY years old when I learned that “HYPE” is short for HYPERBOLE... just wow.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

In 2021 and moving forward imma try to stop addressing mixed gendered groups as “guys” — it’s going to be TOUGH bc i find it to be such reflexive phrasing, but I have faith. Going to be a lot of folks-ing and y’all-ing

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

I am once again encouraging you to get the Impossible Breakfast sandwich fr Starbucks should you need a quick, 🌎 friendly morning bite on the go … it is honestly better than a conventional breakfast sausage sandwich

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

y'all ( @apoorv_bh89 and @TimMLatimer ) are so weird, but like the good kind

Tim Latimer

@TimMLatimer

3 years

1/Nearly everything we take for granted in the modern world is the result of government funded research and public-private partnerships. @apoorv_bh89 recently laid down this challenge. Challenge accepted. How the McRib came from gov research, a THREAD:

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

1 year

looking to put together a @womenclimateIF ladies in climate happy hour event for @SFClimateWeek — any folks whose companies or orgs would be interested in co-hosting?

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Are y’all modeling ongoing opex over a 3-5 year useful life of dry clean only garments or that just me?? 😭 hard to make it pencil at times

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Pulling together another gathering of Women in Climate Investing & Finance for Thursday evening, October 28th in SF - please reach out if you or someone you know (friend? Mentee? Colleague? LP? Client?) might be interested in attending. We had a great time in July! 🌎✨

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

no cuter pup in all the land

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

@fortelabs So, I actually think a decent use case is for people to use it to show availability if you don’t have access to their calendar... rather than do a bunch of rounds of “does this time block work for youUuUuU”

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Between slack, WhatsApp, personal email, ype emails, Twitter DMs, LinkedIn DMs, IG DMs, iMessage, and Facebook messenger - i am increasingly like 🙃🙃🙃 “apologies for the delayed response, I have no idea what’s happening in my life.”

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Just learned that my grandma has TSA pre ✅ and whenever she travels w my mom, she ditches her for the pre check line…. Thoughts? I may be holding my grandma to an unfair standard since she’s usually absurdly considerate. I cannot help but find this hilarious.

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

⚡️the investment team @GenerateCapital is hiring for analysts - please share with any friends, students, mentees, etc. Position is ideal for folks w 1-2 years experience in IB or consulting who are keenly interested in scaling climate change solutions 🌎

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

4 years

Need to stop mindlessly going to @FiveThirtyEight every 20 - 70 mins or so

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Sometimes when I read DAO fast, I think it says DAC and I have this momentary, but v deep confusion as to why all the tech/crypto peeps are suddenly so excited about carbon capture 😭

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

3 years

Friends: Women in Climate Investing & Finance drinks are a go for this Thursday in SF 🌎✨🍸please reach out if you or a friend or a colleague or a mentee or a mentor or an investor etc should be included. I’ll be sending a RSVP email tmo for a headcount and logistics 💃

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Marisa Sweeney

@sweenenergy

2 years

view from the top of Amager Bakke / Copenhill - a ski slope/rec center a top of a 190 MW waste to energy facility in Copenhagen. the plant treats ~400K tons of waste per year and provided power and district heating to more than 140K households. it cost $670M to build.

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