Watershed VS Stripe Climate

We use DuckDB extensively where I work (https://watershed.com), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and analysis "online" queries. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Watershed (https://watershed.com), platform for enterprises to reduce carbon emissions. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Here's why I'm asking — Watershed, a new carbon accounting tool that recently raised $60m, was spun out of Stripe. Patch.io, an API-first offsets marketplace, has strong ties to Plaid. And Bend, a CO2e emissions data API that I'm working on, grew out of Abacus, an expense management app. Source: about 2 years ago

Your best bet with your current skillset (assuming you're more SWE-oriented) would be to join forward-looking startups and companies in the climate space. There's plenty of startups that are in need of engineers, and it would surprise you that a lot of them are relatively well-funded (e.g. https://watershedclimate.com/, funded by Stripe founders and Kleiner Perkins). Alternatively, you can probably join as a SWE... Source: over 2 years ago

There are software companies working on this already, checkout https://watershedclimate.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

Offset your emissions 2x with carbon sequestration. Note: not carbon offsets, pay for actual sequestration: this is a useful resource https://stripe.com/climate - note that carbon sequestration is orders of magnitude more expensive than carbon offsets because it actually accounts for the cost of putting that carbon in the ground. Source: about 1 year ago

Carbon capture is fascinating. Stripe Climate is the best resource I've found, check out their vetted projects towards the bottom of the page. Source: about 2 years ago

My company takes part in https://stripe.com/climate That's where soon billions USD can be spent (some projects are still in research stage). "Stripe is kick-starting market for carbon removal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29007726. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Stripe’s pocket or if it’s part of the 1% initiative [1] that Stripe has started. [1] https://stripe.com/climate. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

It feels like the web3 version of what Stripe is doing with their climate program. Centralized companies are focusing on their carbon footprint, and I personally think decentralized projects should be thinking about this as well. Source: over 2 years ago