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Individuals matter too! Netflix made had $5.8B in revenue from small $10-20 subscription users! Today, for $20 a month you can offset your own carbon footprin

by chrdlu 7y ago

Individuals matter too! Netflix made had $5.8B in revenue from small $10-20 subscription users! Today, for $20 a month you can offset your own carbon footprint! This matters because the more resources that goes into fighting climate change allows innovation. Even by generating more demand for carbon credits and offsetting, new businesses can thrive and grow by fighting climate change! I've been super obsessed with https://projectwren.com https://projectwren.com (YC S19) for these exact reason!

esotericn 7y ago
Way less than $20 a month in a lot of the world too. Americans have a footprint twice as high as Brits, even.
- SpeakMouthWords 7y ago
  Cars and air-con are the main offenders there, right?
  - Areading314 7y ago
    And air travel
glogla 7y ago
I like it, but why do I have to give my email for emission calculation? It's off-putting, I don't want even more spam. And I will tell them where do I live and how, will they package it with my email and sell it to ad companies as a handy profile? Sorry to be paranoid, but most startups (uber, airbnb, paypal, not to mention facebook ...) are evil and exploitative.
- mtranzambetti 7y ago
  Wren co-founder here — we ask for your email so we can send you a report on your footprint (if you choose) or come back to the onboarding flow later. We're spinning the calculator out into an open resource soon though! Finally, we just started two months ago and have not sold user information to ad companies nor do we ever plan to. That sounds like an evil and unnecessary way to go about not accomplishing our mission.
- chrdlu 7y ago
  Just got my first report from Project Wren! Loved it so much I copied and pasted it here so I can share it: https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Update-b8af62f869374278afc06aee87f74ead https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Updat...
kfk 7y ago
It’s a great project but they could be more clear about that 20% cut they take and why it’s double what they partners take. How does it scale? 20% makes sense when you are dealing with, say, 100m of donations, but not so great when it’s 1B. At 1B they’d be taking 200m for what? Hiring the best talent in the world, to do what exactly? I don’t know, I wish them well and hopefully they get more clear about their cut and lower that over time. I think if you are really going to make an impact you must be targeting few billions of donations and 20% is just unreasonable.

by chrdlu 7y ago

esotericn 7y ago

Way less than $20 a month in a lot of the world too. Americans have a footprint twice as high as Brits, even.

SpeakMouthWords 7y ago
Cars and air-con are the main offenders there, right?
- Areading314 7y ago
  And air travel

glogla 7y ago

I like it, but why do I have to give my email for emission calculation? It's off-putting, I don't want even more spam. And I will tell them where do I live and how, will they package it with my email and sell it to ad companies as a handy profile? Sorry to be paranoid, but most startups (uber, airbnb, paypal, not to mention facebook ...) are evil and exploitative.

mtranzambetti 7y ago
Wren co-founder here — we ask for your email so we can send you a report on your footprint (if you choose) or come back to the onboarding flow later. We're spinning the calculator out into an open resource soon though! Finally, we just started two months ago and have not sold user information to ad companies nor do we ever plan to. That sounds like an evil and unnecessary way to go about not accomplishing our mission.
chrdlu 7y ago
Just got my first report from Project Wren! Loved it so much I copied and pasted it here so I can share it: https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Update-b8af62f869374278afc06aee87f74ead https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Updat...

kfk 7y ago

It’s a great project but they could be more clear about that 20% cut they take and why it’s double what they partners take. How does it scale? 20% makes sense when you are dealing with, say, 100m of donations, but not so great when it’s 1B. At 1B they’d be taking 200m for what? Hiring the best talent in the world, to do what exactly? I don’t know, I wish them well and hopefully they get more clear about their cut and lower that over time. I think if you are really going to make an impact you must be targeting few billions of donations and 20% is just unreasonable.