Alfred Johnson’s Post

I’m excited to share the first episode of Critical Capital — a new podcast I’m hosting in collaboration with Latitude Media unpacking the markets, policy, and capital flows shaping the future of energy. We started this show because energy is one of the biggest untold stories of our generation. Energy and finance are converging. Digital demand is colliding with physical infrastructure. Yet very few conversations are connecting these dots. Our first guest is Aidan Madigan-Curtis. Aidan and I first met in business school and, since then, she has built deep expertise across technology and VC investing, now as a Partner at Eclipse. She also has a serious command of history and geopolitics that just makes any conversation with her so incredibly interesting. In this episode, we talk about why the next trillion-dollar company will be built on “both atoms and bits”. Aidan draws fascinating parallels between today’s moment in American energy and the Gilded Age, when industrial innovation and financing shifts converged to unlock enormous growth. We also discuss how moving forces in globalization and manufacturing going back to the 1980s impact AI and critical minerals at the center of strategic competition today. Listen on 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gcYkwwJu 🟢 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gAriRxyE 💻 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g7v7ijGU 🔗 Web: https://lnkd.in/gT6bAxSU New episodes drop biweekly on Tuesdays. Huge shoutout to the entire Latitude team who helped bring this idea to life, including Stephen Lacey, Jenna Herzog, Anne Bailey, John Sheehan and Sean Marquand, and from Crux Emily Hughes and her rockstar team. https://lnkd.in/euXh2HUH