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Radical TruthAuthor: Robert Rubinstein
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Climate Doesn't Have a Capital Problem | Duncan Logan
Sunday, 1 November, 2026
"Capital is never the shortage." Duncan Logan built the San Francisco building that produced more than 30 unicorns, including Uber and Spotify. Now he is doing it for climate.If you think climate's problem is a funding gap, this conversation argues the real shortage is density, vehicles and entrepreneurs.Duncan Logan is a Scottish farmer's son turned derivative trader, tech founder and community builder. He founded RocketSpace, the San Francisco hub where UberCab, Spotify, Flexport and Supercell grew up, and is now co-founder and CEO of 9Zero, a climate innovation hub with sites in San Francisco and Seattle and a 600-person waitlist in New York. In this conversation with Robert Rubinstein he makes the capitalist case for climate: no sacrifice, no moral lectures, just cheaper, better, faster alternatives and a physical place where founders, scientists and investors collide. He explains why he shares every investor contact he collects, why he refuses venture capital for his own company, and what kind of capital product the climate economy is actually missing. You will leave with a different diagnosis of why climate startups stall.Key Moments in This Episode:00:00 What if climate doesn't have a capital problem?01:31 From Scottish farm to derivative trader to 30 unicorns in one building04:32 "There is no Silicon Valley for climate. There is no Hollywood for climate"05:52 The network effect: why nobody joined, until 70 people a day did07:19 Is this just WeWork with a climate badge?11:28 Give, get, get: handing every founder 4,000 investor contacts15:16 40% of new members come from referrals. The industry average is 3%19:03 How they spot the companies greenwashing their way into the building21:03 Unicorn chasing in climate: Robert challenges Duncan on Climeworks23:21 "Every company is a climate company", including BP and Home Depot24:17 Why solving climate through sacrifice fails every time30:19 The insurance market is the canary in the coal mine33:58 Cheaper, better, faster: stop waiting for government43:50 The capital climate actually needs, and why venture capital fits almost none of it51:44 Supply constrained: 600 people waiting in New York📌 Subscribe to TBLI Radical Truth for unfiltered, deep-dive discussions with sustainable finance thought leaders challenging the conventional narratives around impact and the future of finance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDBhRVM93uUnAAtqOMIz_yg?sub_confirmation=1🔗 Connect with guest:• Website: https://9zero.com• X: https://x.com/duncanlogan📌 ▶ RELATED EPISODE: Christoph Klink of Antler on day-zero investing and backing founders from the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7rdCBc4gf0#ClimateTech #ImpactInvesting #ClimateFinanceEXTRACTION How business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system.If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, Extraction takes that investigation much further.Follow its progress in the free Radical Truth Discussion Network: https://tblicircle.com/share/Lnu4hDm8ayILGevs?utm_source=manual
