Laurene Powell Jobs, Comey, Geologic time
[report from earlier today]
anyone remember when Comey tweeted "Geologic Time"? The Cambrian "was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian
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A clean wastewater company backed byLaurene Powell Jobsweathers a financial fight among shareholders
For a company in the unglamorouswastewaterbusiness,Cambrian Innovation Inc.has a high profile inSilicon Valley and Hollywood.Its technology uses electrically chargedmicrobes to digest refuse[kids' bodies?], producing clean water and energy. Its customers includeDomaine Chandon, a winery in Napa Valley, Calif.And its biggest investor is the billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple Inc.’s co-founder.
A couple of years ago, Cambrian bought rival Baswood Inc., which counted theactors Woody Harrelsonas a cofounder andEdward Norton as chairman.“Films are now my sideline,” Norton said at a 2011 environmental symposium. “Waste is my business.” Baswood’ssludge bioreactor also uses microbesto treat water, and its marquee customer was Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Cambrian and Baswood’s merger promised “real change for the health of our planet,” Norton said…
Since theRockefeller Foundationcoined the term in 2007, impact investors have proliferated and now manage$715 billionin assets, mostly inprivate companies
Powell Jobs is among the nation’s most prominent practitioners of impact investing. Her investment-philanthropy hybrid, the Emerson Collective, focuses on education, immigration, climate, and health and also owns the Atlantic magazine. Emerson has a declared mission ofpreserving the world’s precious water supply
In its clean wastewater venture, Emerson found itself at odds with two other impact investors and Cambrian shareholders: Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, the billionaire chairman of Madrid-based construction company Ferrovial SA, and Gary Bergstrom, a pioneer in the field of international investing. In January del Pino’s investment firm and Bergstrom’s family office sued to gain access to Cambrian’s books…
In 2006, two engineers who trained at theMassachusetts Institute of Technologyfounded Cambrian, which is based in the Boston suburb ofWatertown,Mass. In addition to Domain Chandon, the company’s EcoVolt system has appealed to craft brewers such as Lagunitas, Tree House, and Bear Republic. Makingwine and beer generates lots of wastewater,and Cambrian’s tech can reduce both expenses and environmental impact.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-04/impact-investing-billionaires-battle-over-laurene-powell-jobs-s-cambrian
https://www.cambrianinnovation.com/
https://qresear.ch/?q=Domaine+Chandon
Remember the wineries digz? Is this a means of disposing of bodies / remains? Get microbes to digest them with the sludge from breweries / wineries?