Tom trained as an ecologist doing hands-on fieldwork on coral reefs and species rehabilitation across Australia, Madagascar, and the Cayman Islands, then became employee #2 at Real Vision and later advised nature-tech teams at Conservation X Labs—an unusual path that shaped his belief that most conservation problems are really economic problems and his habit of connecting founders with scientists and field practitioners. He explains biodiversity investing in concrete terms, like invasive species and habitat loss, compares forest microbiome restoration to a gut microbiome transplant, and credits his freediving practice, a kind of moving meditation, with teaching him to stay calm under pressure, all while talking about the future of nature and business in terms of radical abundance rather than scarcity.