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Watershed
Company blog · watershed.com/blog · on HN as aitskovibusinessscience
Watershed is the company blog at watershed.com, writing about business and science. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Linked as the site of Watershed, a company with a climate-focused mission, in threads about jobs with positive social impact. The comments do not discuss any of the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Watershed is the leading enterprise sustainability AI platform. Manage your sustainability data, meet sustainability reporting requirements and take action to reduce your impact — starting now.
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What Hacker News says?
This was a variant of the question that I had when I left Stripe in 2019. After hearing someone say “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.”, I became fixated on the question of what can I, with my software skillset, do to have a meaningful impact on climate?. The answer (in hindsight), is a ton. My particular approach was to start a c…
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on “Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?”Submitted California SB 253 and SB 261: a guide for companies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCheck out https://watershed.com/jobs I have no affiliation, other than previously working with the founders at Stripe (they are some of the most impressive people I've met in my life).
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on “Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?”Submitted Watershed announces $100M Series C at $1.8B to accelerate the climate economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a list of startups that have a positive social impact while still paying competitive salaries and showing promising growth: Fintech: Forage ( https://www.joinforage.com ), building Stripe for EBT, i.e. food stamps Nearside ( https://www.nearside.com ), banking for small businesses KeeperTax ( https://www.keepertax.com ), tax savings for independent contractors Bio/Pharma/Healthcare: Q Bio ( https://q.bio ), c…
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on “Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact”We use DuckDB extensively where I work ( https://watershed.com ), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and analysis "online" queries.
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on “DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system”