Molly Wood

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Climate Tech Investor; Founder & CEO of Molly Wood Media; Host of the "Everybody in the Pool" Podcast

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Molly Wood Biography

Molly Wood is a journalist who transitioned into the role of a climate tech investor. She is the founder and CEO of Molly Wood Media, a climate solutions media company. Prior to this, she held the position of managing director at LAUNCH, an early-stage venture capital firm, and is currently a venture partner at the investment firm Amasia, where she scouts and advises climate tech startups.

Having studied journalism at the University of Montana, Wood began her career at the Associated Press before moving into technology journalism. She rose to prominence while working at CNET/CBS from 2000 to 2013, where she co-hosted the "Buzz Out Loud" podcast, among other shows. This was one of the first commercially successful podcasts, launched in 2005.

In 2014, Wood joined The New York Times as a deputy technology editor and later became a tech correspondent and backup host for the US public radio program "Marketplace." In addition to her correspondent role, she co-hosted the "Make Me Smart" and "Marketplace Tech" podcasts and developed and launched other video series and original podcasts at CNET/CBS, the New York Times, and Marketplace.

Wood left Marketplace in 2021 to join Launch, a venture capital firm, as a podcaster and investor. She continued her journey in the venture capital sector until March 2023, when she founded Molly Wood Media. In her current role, Wood hosts the podcast "Everybody in the Pool," which focuses on startups, business practices, and everyday consumers working on climate crisis solutions.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/31/2024.

Molly Wood Speaking Topics

  • AI and the Future of Work

    AI is not coming: it's here, and it's the biggest tech transformation of our lifetimes--which is saying a lot. As a longtime tech journalist and the host of Microsoft's WorkLab podcast, Molly Wood has a front-row seat to how workplaces are navigating this change.

    In this conversation, Molly shares surprising data and explores the trends transforming the way we work. She leaves audiences with insights on how a growth mindset, human-centered skills training, and a deliberate strategy for rolling out these new tools can help companies thrive through this historic disruption.

  • Capitalism Will Either Kill Us or Save Us... or Both

    Runaway consumption and fossil fuel profits created climate change and global warming, but now, the free markets might be the best chance we have to incentivize change in the other direction.

    By framing the climate crisis as an engineering problem and a business opportunity, Tech journalist turned venture capitalist Molly Wood discovered a new path to explore climate resilience, adaptation, and solutions. In this conversation, she offers her refreshingly hopeful perspective and details how human ingenuity can find ways to survive and move toward a better future.

Molly Wood Videos

  • Molly Wood's Broadcast from Home setup | Marketplace
    All around the globe, people are adjusting to working from home. But Marketplace Tech’s Molly Wood has been doing the whole remote work deal for...
  • Marketplace's Molly Wood answers 5 questions about BITCOIN
    What is bitcoin? Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood breaks it down with a simple, short explanation.
  • The Not-So-Smart Home | Molly Wood | The New York Times
    Molly Wood explores what it takes to connect lights, garage doors, door locks, speakers and other home electronics on a network. It's possible, she...

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