Jason Jacobs built his climate investing platform by first becoming a leading podcaster through My Climate Journey, conducting hundreds of conversations with climate leaders that became his deal-flow engine and gave him unusually broad cross-sector pattern recognition before launching MCJ Collective. He came into climate investing after successfully founding and exiting Runkeeper, a mobile fitness app acquired by ASICS, bringing a distinct product and community lens that's less common among climate investors who typically come from energy, policy, or finance backgrounds. Jason Jacobs built his climate investing platform by first becoming a leading podcaster through My Climate Journey, conducting hundreds of conversations with climate leaders that became his deal-flow engine and gave him unusually broad cross-sector pattern recognition before launching MCJ Collective. He came into climate investing after successfully founding and exiting Runkeeper, a mobile fitness app acquired by ASICS, bringing a distinct product and community lens that's less common among climate investors who typically come from energy, policy, or finance backgrounds.