Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future (wiley.com/en-us/Climate+Capital%3A+Investing+in+the+Tools+for+a+Regenerative+Future-p-9781394351244) . The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid threefold crises in the environment, the AI economy, and geopolitics and also proposes a framework for change.
In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, Chi puts forth his opinions on why a world in which billionaires are building doomsday bunkers is one in which no one is really winning, and how that would could be re-imagined.
Featuring: Tom Chi (linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi/) , founding partner, At One Ventures
In today's episode, we'll cover…
• White collar jobs and AI
• Demand as a check on corporate power
• Connections between climate change, AI's impact and political unrest
• Chi's proposed skills to address these challenges: critical thinking, creativity, compassion, and community.
References:
• Potential Salesforce pricing reset latest sign of 'SaaSpocalypse' (techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/opinion/Potential-Salesforce-pricing-reset-latest-sign-of-SaaSpocalypse)
• AI job losses: Transformation expected, not mass layoffs (techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/news/366634569/Microsoft-Azure-AI-Foundry-ties-in-with-Agent-365)
• Half of Google's software development now AI-generated (computerweekly.com/news/366638839/Half-of-Googles-software-development-now-AI-generated)
To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations (techtarget.com/searchitoperations/) .
To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech (youtube.com/@HealthcareStrategies) .
Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future (wiley.com/en-us/Climate+Capital%3A+Investing+in+the+Tools+for+a+Regenerative+Future-p-9781394351244) . The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid threefold crises in the environment, the AI economy, and geopolitics and also proposes a framework for change.
In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, Chi puts forth his opinions on why a world in which billionaires are building doomsday bunkers is one in which no one is really winning, and how that would could be re-imagined.
Featuring: Tom Chi (linkedin.com/in/thegoodtomchi/) , founding partner, At One Ventures
In today's episode, we'll cover…
• White collar jobs and AI
• Demand as a check on corporate power
• Connections between climate change, AI's impact and political unrest
• Chi's proposed skills to address these challenges: critical thinking, creativity, compassion, and community.
References:
• Potential Salesforce pricing reset latest sign of 'SaaSpocalypse' (techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/opinion/Potential-Salesforce-pricing-reset-latest-sign-of-SaaSpocalypse)
• AI job losses: Transformation expected, not mass layoffs (techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/news/366634569/Microsoft-Azure-AI-Foundry-ties-in-with-Agent-365)
• Half of Google's software development now AI-generated (computerweekly.com/news/366638839/Half-of-Googles-software-development-now-AI-generated)
To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations (techtarget.com/searchitoperations/) .
To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech (youtube.com/@HealthcareStrategies) .
