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The commerce ecosystem is massive, so massive that the sector can sustain entire infrastructure unicorns building nothing but tools and services enabling commerce businesses.

In this conversation between Catherine Stewart, Board Partner at Basis Set and fmr COO of Shippo, and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss the new APIs, customs automation and cross-border fulfillment and payments infrastructure that will support more streamlined, but globally capable supply chains.

It's clear that offering convenience at-scale means serving large and incredibly diverse arrays of populations. And while it's true that many innovations in convenience, like delivery, started in dense urban centers. Founders would benefit from considering the challenges that companies like 7 Eleven face on a daily basis, getting fresh food to the far corners of America. And tech has a huge role to play in that.

In this conversation between Josh Stramiello, responsible for leading an internal effort to partner with startups transforming food and logistics, and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss how founders can leverage technology to build convenience solutions that scale to every consumer.

The proposed $2 trillion dollar U.S. infrastructure package will create major incentives for the adoption of climate technology and offer startups many pathways to secure growth funding.

In this conversation between Mona Sheth, Senior Director of Federal Government Relations for Schneider Electric, two policy experts from DC-based government affairs firm Lot 16 and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss how founders can navigate billions in new non-dilutive funding opportunities for climate tech startups.

In this conversation with Paul Hanna, Head of Procurement at a 150 person manufacturing company, we discuss how the next generation of hardware design tools in manufacturing will be even more tightly connected to the purchasing process, with greater intelligence — increasing collaboration between engineering and procurement teams.

While Covid-19 has pushed technology deeper into the deskless workforce, it’s also elucidating shortcomings of existing tools not optimized for the unique challenges of specific industries and regions of the world.

In this conversation between Kris Kemeny, Managing Director of the venture arm for Tekfen, one of Turkey’s largest industrial conglomerates, and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss how founders can build for the global deskless workforce while localizing solutions for customers.

While most industries have had enough to manage with Covid-19, the oil and gas sector has had to manage the pandemic, along with a fierce price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia and broader existential questions about its identity in the face of the energy transition.

In this conversation between Iain Cooper, a nearly 30 year veteran of multinational oil field services company Schlumberger and current CEO of drone gas emissions inspection startup SeekOps, and BSV investor John Mannes, we discuss how each facet of the oil & gas industry has been impacted by Covid-19 and unpack the impact of these macro shocks on technology adoption.