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Chris Sacca

Founder of Lowercase Capital, Lowercase Capital

Search every verified Chris Sacca interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the New York Climate Week in October 2026, Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercarbon Capital, discussed the firm's focus on investing in resilience and adaptation to extreme weather events. He and general partner Caie Kelley argued that there is a substantial market for companies helping people and institutions adapt to disasters, citing examples such as wildfire insurance, disaster recovery software, and geothermal energy. Sacca noted that Lowercarbon Capital was founded during the first Trump administration with a thesis that did not rely on government support, though he said the firm later accepted funding from the Inflation Reduction Act without objection. Sacca also commented on the unintended climate effects of shipping fuel regulations, stating that particulate matter from cargo ships had been net-cooling the planet by 0.25°C and that cleaning up those fuels removed that cooling effect. He expressed frustration with this trade-off, attributing the regulatory change to environmental advocates who pushed for bans on certain fuels. Additionally, Sacca praised entrepreneurs choosing to work in climate-related fields, saying he admires those who could take other jobs but opt to build companies in this space.

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“A bunch of [ __ ] hippies bullied the UN and other governments into banning those kinds of fuels. And so, regulation followed. The entire industry had to clean up its fuel. Now, that was great for the communities around those harbors, and God bless the LBC. I'm a big Long Beach fan. But, for the 8.3 billion rest of us, it turns out that that particulate matter and those clouds were net cooling the planet .25° C. So, ”

“We started Lowercarbon during the first Trump administration. And so, part of the core thesis was we couldn't count on government for anything. You know, they had basically hired lobbyists, you know, the oil company lobbyists to run the EPA. And so, we're like, 'These are guys that we cannot count on at this point.' And so, you know, later on the IRA passed and free money started falling out of the sky. I have no all”

“I let the negative case dominate my analysis of whether I should invest or not. So in the beginning as a seed stage investor you don't really get a lot of data. We don't have any financials to look at, the team usually consists of three to five people, there's some users but not enough at scale. So you don't know whether it's going to be a big thing yet. So you don't have a massive diligence process, and so a lot of ”

“What goes on at the taxi commissions is disgusting. ... they can't point to the rule that Uber was supposedly breaking. Seized a car from an Uber driver. Remember that car doesn't belong to Uber. It belongs to the poor guy from Virginia who is driving it. ... once they get so frustrated they can't point to the rule that's broken, they go and write some very specific rules that are called like the Uber amendments is l”

“I turned what was left of my student loans into $12 million. ... And in a matter of like hours, I went from basically $12 million to about $2 million of net worth.”

“I took the student loans and I don't know why they do this, but they just they send you a check that you're supposed to walk down to the school instead of just wiring it directly. But I cashed the checks and I used them to start a company. And I told the school that the checks had never shown up.”

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