The Capitalist Hippie

Marco Pimentel

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led business and sustainability show featuring founders, CEOs, and other leaders building climate, food, and energy solutions. Agencies could credibly pitch climate-tech entrepreneurs, sustainable food executives, impact-focused investors, and experts in sustainable growth or go-to-market strategy; booking difficulty is medium because guests typically hold senior leadership roles and have notable company or sector achievements.

Metrics

Episodes: 95

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: Canada

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

marcoppimentel@gmail.com

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Host

Marco Pimentel - Entrepreneur and marketing expert focused on business strategy, sustainability, market trends, and go-to-market playbooks.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Founders, CEOs, and senior executives building companies in climate technology, sustainable food, energy, agriculture, or adjacent impact-oriented industries; strong marketing and go-to-market expertise is also relevant.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led an innovative sustainability-focused company, Secured significant venture funding or commercialized a scalable solution, Established expertise in sustainable food, energy, agriculture, or climate technology, Achieved notable professional distinction, such as elite athletic credentials, alongside business leadership

Recent Guest Discussions

Luke Winston-Almanzar - Household Energy Use, Smart Heat-pump Technology, Energy Efficiency, And Connected Home Hardware As A Grid Resource

Thijs Bosch - Fungal Protein, Sustainable Food Production, Alternative Protein, Scaling Food Innovation, And The Economics Of Replacing Factory Farming

Ali Cox - Agricultural Communications, Sustainability Messaging, Farm And Food Branding, Transparency, And Helping Producers Capture More Value

Recent Topics

Business, Sustainability, Climate Technology, Food Innovation, Impact Investing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Capitalist Hippie

Power Play Ep 3: Balance

September 22, 2026

Residents of Scioto County, Ohio, learned about their new $1 billion Google data center after the deal was done. The county gave up 75 percent of the property tax on it for 15 years. Historian John Reeves compares what's happening today with what happened the last time America built at speed. Catherine Baab-Muguira investigates the pledge signed by tech CEOs, which claims AI won't raise anyone's electricity bill. CREDITS: Power Play is a production by Quartz and The Capitalist Hippie. Rep...

Power Play Ep 2: Gridlock

September 15, 2026

America's grid runs at about half its capacity. AI needs more power. What's the problem? Every new data center waits on a connection study, and the studies are still run by hand. The turbines and transmission lines that would add capacity take five years or more to arrive. Jackie Snow traces the wait through roughly three thousand utilities, each working the problem alone. CREDITS: Power Play is a production by Quartz and The Capitalist Hippie. Reported by Jackie Snow, Catherine Baab-Muguir...

Power Play Ep 1: AI wants your electricity

September 15, 2026

America is rebuilding its power grid for AI before anyone can agree on how much power AI will need. In Ohio, one utility held 30 gigawatts of data center requests. When it asked developers for money upfront, requests dropped to 13 gigawatts. Jackie Snow follows the phantom demand clogging utility queues, the decisions already being made on numbers nobody trusts, and who pays if the guesses run high. CREDITS: Power Play is a production by Quartz and The Capitalist Hippie. Reported by Jackie ...

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