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Sam Kolar

Climate tech operator; Executive Director of ClimateDoor Impact and Director of Portfolio Growth at ClimateDoor; founder of ClimCanada; ex-Deloitte (9 years); multiple founder/entrepreneur supporting early-stage climate ventures.

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PODCASTS

Jun 5, 2026

Before the Tipping Point AI & Sustainability

Before the Tipping Point AI & Sustainability

Before the Tipping Point: The Real Bottlenecks Stopping Climate Startups from Scaling (with Sam Kullar, ClimateDoor)

Jun 5 · 17m

LoisHOST

4:46

So in climate tech, where do founders overuse consulting style analysis and slow themselves down? And where does consulting grade rigor genuinely create a competitive advantage that scrappier teams actually miss?

4:59

Yeah, again, a great, a great question.

5:01

This one's kind of funny.

5:03

I do love this question.

5:04

I think I've been speaking about this a lot actually.

5:07

I do...

5:07

I guest lecture every year at Simon Fraser University with fourth year entrepreneurship students, and so this comes up a lot around what we should be doing, what we shouldn't be doing.

LoisHOST

9:41

So what are the two, three non-negotiables you put in place so a pilot becomes a scalable commercial motion, not a one-off science project?