Emily sat down with Taylor to learn how they landed Sweetgreen as their first customer, what it takes to build a climate company worth $1B, and the promise and pitfalls of carbon accounting.
Taylor is co-founder of Watershed, a software platform that helps businesses get to net zero carbon faster. Taylor was an early organizer for The Climate Reality Project and has a background in public policy. Taylor later joined Stripe where he worked on Atlas, a toolkit to help founders and businesses get started. At Watershed, Taylor spends his time working with forward-thinking companies to help them bake carbon impact into everyday business decisions. He lives in San Francisco where Watershed is based.