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Form Energy CEO Mateo Jaramillo: Building the Largest Battery System in the World

Cameron sits down with Matteo Jaramillo, the former Tesla exec building one of the most ambitious climate companies in the world: Form Energy. They dive into long-duration energy storage, the AI-driven demand boom, and what it takes to scale hard tech from idea to gigawatt-hours.

- Why Matteo left a path toward the priesthood after Yale Divinity School

- Simple breakdown of iron-air batteries

- Why 100-hour duration matters for grid reliability and extreme weather

- How iron-air can be ~10x cheaper than lithium-ion for long-duration storage

- Form’s first deployments and the path from R&D to…

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