Maddie Hall: Launching A Startup To Fight Climate Change

Maddie Hall is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and the co-founder & CEO of Living Carbon, a biotech startup building genetically engineered trees to fight climate change. Andrew and Maddie discuss what motivated Maddie to start the company, her process for researching new ideas, and lessons learned from building a fast-growing startup.

Show highlights:
1:04 - What Living Carbon does
2:34 - Maddie's idea to start Living Carbon
3:34 - Research process, exploring new topics, and networking
5:16 - Responding to doubt and people who don't believe in you
7:31 - Y Combinator experience
7:44 - Experience as a startup founder
8:29 - Entrepreneurship runs in Maddie's family
8:45 - Believing in yourself and ambitions
9:33 - Parents modeling behaviors that drove Maddie's ambitions
10:42 - Life as a startup founder and navigating company growth
11:53 - Maintaining company core values and making smart hiring decisions
13:44 - Finding what motivates you
14:32 - Power of self-awareness as a proxy for growth
14:46 - Tips for interviewing and identifying strong talent
17:45 - Overcoming doubt and unknowns
19:18 - Goalsetting process and OKRs

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are there any trees that have been planted yet