I'm building communities of microbes capable of efficient carbon sequestration at the gigaton scale, and the company that will deploy them. My experience in microbiology and the geobiology drives the science; lessons in scalability and fundraising from my time working in tech shape the company. 

Carbon capture solutions are only relevant if they operate at the gigaton scale, thus any proposed approach must evaluate long-term resource requirements at inception and ensure that they will not compete with humanity for already scarce resources such as arable land, fresh water, and energy.

This shapes every design decision in my own system: saline ponds on non-arable land, fertilized by wastewater and powered by sunlight. The financial model is built the same way: scalability needs to be considered from day one, not bolted on later. I'm working with materials scientists and bioengineers to manufacture building materials from the generated biomass. This creates revenue streams independent of carbon credits in markets large enough to absorb the volume generated by gigaton-scale carbon capture.