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Gerald Poskey

Gerald Poskey

Jeral Poskey is founder and CEO of Swyft Cities, a startup spun out of Google developing modular electric cable-drawn urban transit systems.

Sep 3, 2026

3:51
What's the impetus? You know, what made you think this solution is the one for the future and the cities and the housing developments of the future?
3:59
Yeah, the nice thing is we started with a one particular client in mind and built something for that client.
4:05
We were at Google.
4:06
I was an executive in the transportation part of the real estate division, solving problems for Google's campuses, which were A, large and need to be interconnected.
4:15
But most importantly, they were all tended to be two to three miles from a major train station.
4:20
And the future was going to be, if you wanted this, this beautiful campuses that had both live, work, play, you know, there's housing, there's, there's residential entertainment, there's retail, open space, just everything you need in a large urban area.
4:37
you needed, you could only afford to do that if you had less parking, fewer roads, and there was no other way to make this happen.

12 MINS LATER

16:55
Just talk to me about the kind of climate goals writ large.

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