Cool tech hot problem
In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Manik Suri, founder and CEO of GlacierGrid, a climate tech company tackling emissions through an unexpected source: commercial cooling. Manik takes us from the West Wing to the grid, sharing how he went from working in Obama’s White House to building tech that helps restaurants, retailers, and hospitality giants like McDonald’s and Marriott reduce energy use, cut food waste, and fight refrigerant leaks, all through smarter HVAC and refrigeration systems. We explore what it means to scale a startup that intersects AI, IoT, and climate in a world increasingly divided on sustainability, and why sometimes the boldest move is just to start, even if you don’t know how it ends.
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In this episode we’re going to talk about… thinking. How to think about things when faced with challenges or opportunities, and some of the tools at our disposal to distill clarity, generate creativity, and explore divergent and breakthrough thinking. Most situations we encounter in our personal and professional lives we find ourselves somewhere between two modes: we might be exploring ideas and approaches, which is divergent thinking; we might be needing to curate and distill our ideas and approaches into a singular path forward, which is convergent thinking.
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