John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Oct 2025 with 5.

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Cheeky Pint · Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea · 28 Oct 2025 podcast

I don't know. voice-verified

I associate voice-verified

Yeah, I certainly was voice-verified

Are there other underappreciated industrialist tinkers? voice-verified

Oh probably all of them are underappreciated. voice-verified

Well I never went to school to learn how to code. voice-verified

But like the same idea. voice-verified

if you interpret Henry Kaiser, Howard Hughes, Elon Musk, they decide that their circle of competence is not rockets or roads or what have you, but is engineering and that engineering competence can be broadly applied to many central um domains. voice-verified

I associate this trait with you. voice-verified

Maybe for the listeners who are not familiar, summarize what Terraform is building. voice-verified

yeah, uh uh explain for people who uh are uh who remember their high school chemistry. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

So you take uh electricity from solar panels, yep. voice-verified

You take uh carbon from the atmosphere, you take the hydrogen from water, and then you use the those to produce currently short chain, in future longer chain hydrocarbons. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And the reason that you get carbon emissions uh when you burn gasoline is we're taking carbon that was sequestered in the ground, we had it stored away through, you know, uh all the many, many uh years of breakdown there. voice-verified

Dinosaur stuff, basically. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

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