A childhood tinkerer left GE to sell greeting cards, then helped recruit talent into climate work. Now known as Joel Wish, the Bright Harbor founder is working on the long, complicated journey home after a disaster.
Joselyn Lai is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy, an Austin-based climate-tech company drilling deep, autonomous geothermal wells to heat and cool large commercial buildings for a fraction of conventional cost and land. After a decade across sustainable agriculture, transportation, and consulting, she paired up with oil-and-gas drilling scientist Silviu Livescu to repurpose upstream drilling techniques for the half-kilometer of free thermal energy sitting beneath every building. In January 2025 the company raised a $12M Series A led by Titanium Ventures to scale projects across Texas and the Mountain West.