Mike Jackson has spent 15 years as both an entrepreneur and VC exclusively in climate tech, rising from intern to partner at The Westly Group before leading Earthshot's fund strategy, giving him unusually deep single-sector continuity compared to generalist VCs. He maintains a distinctive systems-driven productivity philosophy that includes batching email three times daily to protect deep work time, which he explicitly links to venture's high noise-to-signal environment and his friendship with Deep Work author Cal Newport.