Ryan Kushner Interviews Matt Myers
🛟 Life hacks, story swapping 🎙️, Climate Tech Circle 🌎 reflections, Irving Freakin' Plaza 🎶, and so much more! Happy 2nd Birthday, CTC!
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to a very special episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
It’s been a minute since the first episode of Climate Tech Cocktails was released, 1,051,200 minutes to be exact (2 years).
To celebrate this milestone, Team CTC asked Matt if he’d be willing to sit down and chat with his climate tech colleague and close friend, Ryan Kushner. We’ve grown so much over the past two years, both online and in IRL. We wanted to provide an opportunity to learn more about Matt and his own founder journey.
About Climate Tech Circle:
Climate Tech Circle is a natural evolution for the Climate Tech Cocktails community. CTC is driven by the premise that together we can solve the climate challenge by building, purchasing, and investing in climate tech solutions producing the abundant and sustainable world we all want to live in.
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🥃 What we (both) drank during the episode: Gin and Tonics courtesy of Alley 6 Distillery (Spirits Club).
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Books/Things/Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🌎Alley 6 Craft Distillery - Membership
📍Harlan Crow’s Dictator Garden
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[00:00] Intro
[03:17] What are we drinking?
[06:59] A Marketing Spin on CTC's 2nd Birthday
[07:32] The history of Ryan and Matt
[08:06] The origin of CTC
[10:32] The first episode of CTC was with Ryan
[11:38] Fun Fact: Matt was a Booth Babe
[12:38] Exhibit A: Matt’s first job post-living in Asia
[15:30] A story that somehow made it through the edit
[18:32] An indirect story about Matt and Harlan Crow’s
[20:35] We all need therapy
[21:52] Q. What keeps Matt going?
[23:44] Q. What motivates Matt?
[24:40] Make your bed philosophy (Matt’s Life Hack #1)
[26:43] Matt’s process & flow for productivity as an entrepreneur
[29:28] Who is Matt Myers? (Childhood, cultural exposure, etc.)
[31:00] The Pivot from the Music Industry to China
[35:40] Matt Life Hack #2
[36:16] Brief unedited pause where Matt did NOT shush his fiancee
[37:02] Matt speaks Chinese— well. (No, he is not a spy)
[38:30] Fun fact: Matt has 🇺🇸 underwear.
[40:55] Matt’s climate epiphany
[42:30] Matt Life Hack #3
[44:42] Past & Present Appreciations
[47:30] Matt’s Life Hack #4
[48:36] Matt’s Top Moments
[51:30] Matt Life Hack #5 (Or #6, according to Ryan)
[53:38] Event Reflections
[54:30] Irving Freakin’ Plaza 9/18
[56:40] Matt Life Hack #?? (we lost count)
[1:00:25] The future of CTC
[1:15:30] Final Cheers
[1:16:08] Outro