“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Thank you Earth First for the interview with our cofounder and CFO, Elliott Bennett! We’re so proud to have his leadership at Ecotone.👏
🌱 Next up, meet Elliott Bennett, the Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Ecotone Renewables. Ecotone Renewables is on a mission to eliminate food waste through climate-smart practices. Founded in Pittsburgh, PA, Ecotone Renewables is scaling anaerobic digestion technology to sustainably process food waste and convert it into renewable hashtag #energy and organic liquid hashtag #fertilizer. Curious what a world without waste looks like? Tune into this edition to discover what carbon-negative fertilizer is, its impact, and its potential. 💡 Fun Fact: Globally, 30-40% of all produced food is wasted ($1.61B annually) 💼 Snapshot of Elliott: 👉 Earned his B.S. in Philosophy, Marketing and Finance from Boston College 👉 Worked as a Treasury Analyst at Bank of America This was a fun conversation, from hearing about his back-to-back summers leading sales at CUTCO Cutlery, forging a new path crowdfunding a startup with his childhood best friend, and his positive outlook on having an open climate conversation. Inspired by his mom, Elliott shares: “Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.” 🚀 Join us as we delve into Elliott’s story of balancing passion projects with a corporate job, the internal dilemma of prioritizing one's passion, and the journey of building impact fertilizer that diverts 90 pounds of CO2 emissions with each gallon of carbon-negative organic fertilizer produced. This was full of many laughs—tune in! #EarthFirst #Startup #ClimateTech