Modern Hydrogen: Tony Pan

💧Hydrogen, 🍗KFC, ✨Warren Buffett, ⛽Natural Gas and 💥More

Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.

In this episode, we’re kicking back with a couple of diet cokes (one with gin 😜)  as we dive into the life history of Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen, Tony Pan. 

From Taiwan to Scotland to Harvard, the brilliant Tony Pan shares the path that led him to Modern Hydrogen. After working for Goldman Sachs, Tony springboarded into the world of climate technology. Tony and his colleagues are transforming the way we utilize natural gas by turning it into clean hydrogen–point source hydrogen, that is–to power industrial processes.    

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🎧 New podcast episode:

“Simply put… [Modern Hydrogen’s] main business is to decarbonize natural gas into clean hydrogen at the points of use.” - Tony Pan, Co-Founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen

What we drank during the episode: Diet Coke 🥤and Alley Six Gin 🥃

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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:

💡Intellectual Ventures

💡TerraPower

💡Ambri

💡Mainspring Energy, Inc.

💡Modern Hydrogen

🌐Council on Foreign Relations

🌐Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

🍟McDonald's

🍗KFC

🪙Goldman Sachs

🏫Stanford University

🏫Harvard University

People/places/things mentioned during the show:

🧑‍💻Tony Pan

🧑‍💻Max Mankin 

🧑‍💻Warren Buffett

🧑‍💻Bill Gates

🧑‍💻Einstein

🎖️Global Good Fund

🎖️Hertz Fellowship

🎖️Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship

🎖️National Science Foundation Fellowship

📍Taiwan

📍Korea

📍Scotland

📍Glasgow

📍Shanghai

📍Beijing

📚Hard Things About Hard Things

📚Creativity Inc.

📚Man’s Search for Meaning

📚Creating the Twentieth Century

📚Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feyman 

📚Lord of the Rings

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[00:00] Intro

[01:30] What’re we drinking?

[03:29] Food Talk

[07:08] Tony’s Background 

[11:37] A Path to the US

[14:17] Family Values 

[18:19] Pragmatic Entrepreneurship

[19:12] Pronoia Pete Award

[21:50] Goldman Sachs

[26:11] The Seed of Modern Hydrogen

[29:01] Decarbonizing Heat

[32:28] The Challenge of Hydrogen

[35:49] Reliance on Natural Gas

[38:46] Converting Natural Gas to Hydrogen

[41:51] Decarbonizing the Hydrogen Process

[46:32] The Hydrogen Economy

[54:24] Biogas

[1:00:00] Rapid Fire Questions

[1:08:00] Final Thoughts 

[1:10:00] Outro