Aether Diamonds: Ryan Shearman
How Aether is making 💎 diamonds from air, the history of diamond formation and mining, how a 🏍 motorcycle accident jumpstarted Ryan’s dive into entrepreneurship, and oh so much more!!
Fellow Climate Warriors,
This episode I drink 🍸 Martinis with Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds.
Join us as we discuss how Aether is making 💎 diamonds from air, the history of diamond formation and mining, how a 🏍 motorcycle accident jumpstarted Ryan’s dive into entrepreneurship, the iron butt association, building a luxury brand, applying Web3 to Aether, how Ryan 💍 proposed to his wife and oh so much more!!
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🎧 New podcast episode:
Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds on how Aether approaches having a positive impact on people and the planet:
“I like to say we’re not a mission driven company. We’re not a company with a mission.
We’re a mission with a company.” -Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds
@RyanShearmanNYC, Co-founder and CEO of @AetherDiamonds, a startup creating the world’s first positive-impact diamonds. Ryan Shearman is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Early in his career, Ryan joined David Yurman as one of the first hires on their new Men's team, where he was responsible for overseeing the development of some of the brand's most iconic and commercially successful collections at the time, shipping over $80M worth of product in under three years. In 2013 Ryan founded his first startup, Fusar, a direct-to-consumer brand that developed tech-enabled safety products for the motorcycle market. Ryan currently serves as the founder and CEO of Aether, where he combines his passions for technology and jewelry with his personal mission to help solve the climate crisis. In his free time, Ryan can be found riding his motorcycle, teaching his dog new tricks, and spending time with his family.
🍸 What we drank during the episode: martinis with blue cheese olives
Enjoy the show!
📻 Listen to the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Audacy and Substack👉
Interested in sponsoring?
Please reach out to m@climatetechcocktails.com
Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🐣 Massive
🐣 Lolli
People/places/things mentioned during the episode
🧠How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring
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[0:00] Intro
[4:00] Drink of the show
[6:00] Ryan’s childhood
[11:00] Event that inspire Ryan’s first startup
[14:00] Launching Fusar
[15:00] Father’s influence on Ryan
[18:00] Lessons learned from first startup
[20:00] Experience working at David Yurman
[23:00] How Ryan decided to focus on climate
[26:00] Ryan + motorcycles
[30:00] Climate + motorcycles
[33:30] How diamonds are formed
[37:00] Diamond mining
[38:30] Incoming supply shortage of mined diamonds
[40:00] How diamonds became luxury item
[41:30] Invention of lab grown diamonds
[43:00] Difference between lab grown and Aether diamonds
[47:50] How Aether produces its diamonds utilizing clean energy
[50:00] Where Aether sources its captured carbon
[52:00] How Aether achieves carbon neutrality with its diamonds
[55:00] Applying Web3 to the Aether business
[1:00:30] Expected impact on the consumer and society
[1:02:30] Building luxury brand vs wholesale diamond producer
[1:04:00] What the future of Aether diamonds looks like
[1:08:00] Top 3 books
[1:11:00] How Ryan proposed to his wife
[1:14:30] Top 3 Founders+Startups
[1:18:00] Conclusion
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This episode is brought to you by ☀️Yotta Energy ! We all know energy storage is key to deploying renewables at scale. I’ve seen many energy storage solutions for commercial buildings over my years in climate tech, but none as impressive as Yotta’s.
Yotta Energy’s unique "PV-Coupled" ecosystem of solar+storage solutions simply integrates within the standard solar installation process. Even better, their integrated storage technology can enable up to 60% more solar to be deployed on commercial buildings. With commercial buildings consuming 35% of US electricity that means Yotta is making a serious dent in CO2 emissions. With the electrification of everything revolution underway, Yotta Energy is poised to meet the growing demands of electrification by sizing solar+storage resources to recharge electric vehicles as they future proof buildings into distributed energy sites powering the grid of the future. Find out more at YottaEnergy.com and follow Yotta on Twitter @YottaEnergy.
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This episode is also brought to you by 💎Aether Diamonds. If you’re planning to propose, or purchase a timeless gift for your partner, I couldn’t think of a better purchase than Aether Diamonds.
Aether Diamonds are the world’s most sustainable diamonds, and the only diamonds that are actually GOOD for the planet! Aether creates the world's first positive-impact diamonds made from captured CO2. In fact, every carat of Aether Diamonds offsets your personal carbon footprint for over a year. These are 100% real diamonds with a real impact. They’re some of the highest quality diamonds you can buy, and are certified by IGI, the world's largest independent laboratory for testing and grading gemstones and fine jewelry.
Now you’re no longer stuck having to choose between mined and regular lab-grown diamonds, both of which harm the environment. Aether offers the only truly sustainable diamonds on the market, requiring no ethical or environmental trade-offs… in other words, they're the only guilt-free diamonds available in the world.
To learn more about these revolutionary diamonds from air, visit their website at aetherdiamonds.com and follow on Twitter @aetherdiamonds
Simplecast Description:
Episode Summary:
This episode I drink 🍸 Martinis with Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds.
Join us as we discuss how Aether is 💎 diamonds from air, the history of diamond formation and mining, how a 🏍 motorcycle accident jumpstarted Ryan’s dive into entrepreneurship, the iron butt association, building a luxury brand, applying Web3 to Aether, how Ryan 💍 proposed to his wife and oh so much more!!
“I like to say we’re not a mission driven company. We’re not a company with a mission.
We’re a mission with a company.” -Ryan Shearman, Co-founder and CEO of Aether Diamonds
@RyanShearmanNYC, Co-founder and CEO of @AetherDiamonds, a startup creating the world’s first positive-impact diamonds. Ryan Shearman is a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur. Early in his career, Ryan joined David Yurman as one of the first hires on their new Men's team, where he was responsible for overseeing the development of some of the brand's most iconic and commercially successful collections at the time, shipping over $80M worth of product in under three years. In 2013 Ryan founded his first startup, Fusar, a direct-to-consumer brand that developed tech-enabled safety products for the motorcycle market. Ryan currently serves as the founder and CEO of Aether, where he combines his passions for technology and jewelry with his personal mission to help solve the climate crisis. In his free time, Ryan can be found riding his motorcycle, teaching his dog new tricks, and spending time with his family.
As always, HUGE shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails official sponsors ☀️Yotta Energy and 💎Aether Diamonds
Also a BIG shout out to Climate Tech Cocktails’ first official SUPER Climate Warrior patron supporter, Extreme Tech Challenge! 👀 Want to learn more and be listed here?!? Visit https://www.patreon.com/ctc1
Enjoy the show!
🤝
This episode is brought to you by ☀️Yotta Energy ! We all know energy storage is key to deploying renewables at scale. I’ve seen many energy storage solutions for commercial buildings over my years in climate tech, but none as impressive as Yotta’s.
Yotta Energy’s unique "PV-Coupled" ecosystem of solar+storage solutions simply integrates within the standard solar installation process. Even better, their integrated storage technology can enable up to 60% more solar to be deployed on commercial buildings. With commercial buildings consuming 35% of US electricity that means Yotta is making a serious dent in CO2 emissions. With the electrification of everything revolution underway, Yotta Energy is poised to meet the growing demands of electrification by sizing solar+storage resources to recharge electric vehicles as they future proof buildings into distributed energy sites powering the grid of the future. Find out more at YottaEnergy.com and follow Yotta on Twitter @YottaEnergy.
🤝
This episode is also brought to you by 💎 Aether Diamonds. If you’re planning to propose, or purchase a timeless gift for your partner, I couldn’t think of a better purchase than Aether Diamonds.
Aether Diamonds are the world’s most sustainable diamonds, and the only diamonds that are actually GOOD for the planet! Aether creates the world's first positive-impact diamonds made from captured CO2. In fact, every carat of Aether Diamonds offsets your personal carbon footprint for over a year. These are 100% real diamonds with a real impact. They’re some of the highest quality diamonds you can buy, and are certified by IGI, the world's largest independent laboratory for testing and grading gemstones and fine jewelry.
Now you’re no longer stuck having to choose between mined and regular lab-grown diamonds, both of which harm the environment. Aether offers the only truly sustainable diamonds on the market, requiring no ethical or environmental trade-offs… in other words, they're the only guilt-free diamonds available in the world.
To learn more about these revolutionary diamonds from air, visit their website at aetherdiamonds.com and follow on Twitter @aetherdiamonds
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