🌎 Today's episode is the first of our new founder show format, where we are keeping it a bit shorter and focusing on what they are doing rather than too many of the broader trends. Our guinea pig is Will Wiseman, Founder & CEO of Climatize. A revolutionary platform that is empowering community solar projects to scale effectively by getting them financed where PE is not doing the deals due to smaller sizes. Main Takeaways: (read the full version on Substack) 

1. Make it easy to use.
2. Calculate the ROI of your fundraising process for a morale boost.
3. Hire "ready" talent early on.
4. Co-founders SHOULD think differently.

---🌎 If you'd like to see the full PodLetter, go to our substack to see all the written content that supplements the audio interview.  ---Topics:

• 2:26 His Career Journey
• 6:42 How He Looks at Impact Work 
• 8:04 FInTech Founding as an Engineer
• 13:13 Why PE Isn't Filling the Need
• 16:40 How they "Pitch" to Consumers
• 20:12 Hiring & Talent 
• 26:08 Building the Product
• 28:26 Advice to Founders
• 32:29 Future Challenges
• 34:59 On Making it "Real" to Climate Deniers 

Links:

• Connect with Will 
• Climatize.Earth 
• For all your Climate, Renewables, and Sustainability recruitment needs, check out our sponsor wavepartners.com/">NextWave Partners. 
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