“Do you think companies in Silicon Valley should take more debt?” Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder of Social Capital, asked me bluntly during an interview in Mountain View a few months ago.
We were at the headquarters of one of Chamath’s most promising climate tech startups – Mitra Chem – perched awkwardly around a table on the factory floor surrounded by millions of dollars of state of the art equipment. We were discussing Mitra Chem’s eye-watering $40 million Series B. READ MORE