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October 4, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT
FreeGrowth Hacking Tips for Startups with Mehrad Yaghmai
Mehrad Yaghmai is a systems thinker. His career started when he moved to Dubai – after graduating from the University of California, San Diego. The move allowed him to work on projects that inspired his entrepreneurial spirit.
“As I developed expertise, I got really involved with the startup ecosystem over there. I started getting pulled into workshops at different co-working spaces and incubators to share my knowledge and how I’d worked to build systems from scratch,” he shares.
As time went on, Mehrad found that many of his roles tasked him with thinking as an entrepreneur to creatively solve problems. This also led him to work for companies that were not often thought to be sustainable, but that offered solutions that were climate-positive.
After a decade abroad, Mehrad moved back to a California much different from the one he had left. The year was 2020 and wildfires turned the San Francisco sky red. The effects of the climate crisis loomed.
This drastic change led him to turn his concern into action by founding Cool Climate Collective where he invests in climate tech and uses his startup expertise to help founders build impactful companies.
In a Founders Network webinar on October 4, Mehrad will share growth hacking tips for startups. He’ll also detail his framework for how founders can integrate a climate-first lens into businesses of any industry.
His session will cover:
- How to develop a climate-first business model
- How to best leverage growth hacking to scale sustainable businesses
- The power of using systems thinking to create new business angles
- Advice for how to integrate an eco-lens atop any business model
About the Speaker:
Mehrad Yaghmai is a founding partner at Cool Climate Collective, where he invests in climate tech startups and fosters collaboration. His career includes roles spanning from founder and entrepreneur, to product manager and marketing growth expert. He brings versatile experience in building, selling products & businesses across sectors like D2C e-commerce, EdTech, and SaaS.
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