Meet our Green Guru for this week, Pratap Raju, Founding Partner at the Climate Collective Foundation and Country Head for New Energy Nexus India. Pratap started off his journey as a banker on wall street post his degree at Harvard but is now one of the leaders of the climate tech entrepreneurship ecosystem in India. He has built new ventures from scratch - not once or twice but multiple times in a wide array of sectors. He has had an IT startup, been a Bollywood producer-writer and also a successful renewable energy developer. Now, Climate Collective, the largest climate tech accelerator in South Asia, coaches hundreds of start-ups every year, leading their way to sustainability through innovation.
Some Important questions answered in this episode:
(00:50) Introduction
(03:16) How does a banker on the wall street decide to do a masters in development?
(07:15) How to decide if you should a start-up or do a job?
(11:24) How does the diversity of life experiences help you build a venture?
(20:42) Tell us about how you conceived Climate Collective?
(27: 10) Can you describe in simple terms what is an accelerator?
(34:03) What are the job opportunities in the startup support ecosystem? What skills are most sought after?
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