Form Energy: Mateo Jaramillo
🥃 Mezcal, 🔋 energy storage, 🥧 peach pies and so much more!
🌎 Fellow Climate Warriors,
We’re enjoying a drink today with Mateo Jaramillo, Co-Founder and CEO of Form Energy.
We discuss 🥃 Mezcal, 🔋 energy storage, 🥧 peach pies and so much more!
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🆕🎙 New podcast episode 🆕🎙:
Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of Form Energy, on the importance of long-term energy storage:
“Lithium Ion will continue to have a very important role to play, but there remains a key function which needs to be replaced on the grid, and that is a function that is currently being provided by coal and natural gas. That is the energy demand when you don’t have wind or solar. So, that’s the kind of moment we have to solve for from an energy storage perspective.”
- Mateo Jaramillo on Scalable Multi-Day Storage Solutions
Mateo Jaramillo earned his AB in Economics from Harvard, and then earned a Master’s in Theology from Yale Divinity School.
Realizing he was more into solving scientific problems than vocational ministry, Mateo became COO and part of the founding team at Gaia Power Technologies, an energy storage firm.
In 2009, Mateo joined Telsa and oversaw product lines, business model definition, global policy and business development.
Mateo then co-founded Form Energy, whose mission is grid decarbonization through multi-day storage.
🔎 Find Mateo here on LinkedIn
🔎 And find Form Energy on Twitter: @FormEnergyInc
What we drank during the episode:
🥃 Macurichos Mezcal (Mateo)
and
🥃 Yuu Baal Mezcal Anejo (Matt)
Enjoy the show!
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
🔋DFJ
🔋Form Energy (Previously Known as Verse Energy and then Baseload Energy)
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🎓 Harvard
👩🏻🌾 Farmers in Salinas’ Rights
👥 American Clean Power Association
🎓 NYU
🧔🏻♂️ Elon Musk
🔋Grid Markets / Batteries on Grid
🏭 Telsa’s first Gigafactory in Nevada
🧠Gabriel Kra from Prelude Ventures
🎓 MIT
📗Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
📙Notes from Underground from Dostoyevski
🧠 Emily Kirsch
⌚️ TIMESTAMPS ⌚️
[0:00] Intro
[1:36] Drink of the Show
[4:05] A Connoisseur of Pies
[6:16] Mateo’s Origin Story
[12:03] Divinity School
[18:35] Climate Change is a Human Problem
[20:55] Getting Fired Up about Energy Storage
[26:21] Convincing Elon to Hire You
[32:48] Transitioning Out of Tesla
[38:30] Solving the Right Energy Problem
[42:52] Joining Forces with Geniuses and Exploring Iron
[47:15] Creating Multi-Day Storage Solutions Using Iron
[59:41] The Durations Most Needed for Storage
[62:28] Form Energy’s Current Status and Challenges
[68:16] 3 Books
[73:13] 3 Start-ups
[76:44] Conclusion