TTH Blueprint Episode 22: Tanishq Jain: The Founder Building An AI Chief Sustainability Officer
I have known Tanishq for over two years now, and every conversation I learn something new about him. This one was no exception.
Tanishq is the founder of Dash, your AI Chief Sustainability Officer. The idea is simple. Make sustainability business friendly and ROI driven rather than a tick box exercise nobody really understands.
But the real story goes back further than any pitch deck. Tanishq grew up in a small town in India in a family that recycles ships for a living. His dad buys decommissioned vessels and brings the metal back into circulation. His grandmother ran her own creative business from home long before anyone called it entrepreneurship. Sustainability and entrepreneurship were never concepts to him growing up. They were just life.
In this conversation we talk about leaving a comfortable career at the London Stock Exchange after spotting a fundamental flaw in how sustainability funds were being rated from the top down rather than the ground up. We talk about the brutal shift in investor expectations since 2023, the existential wobble every founder hits at some point, and why he has learned to treat those moments as brainstorming sessions rather than verdicts.
We get honest about AI. About building a sustainability business that also depends on AI infrastructure with a real environmental footprint, and why he sets hard spend limits rather than letting AI quietly creep into every part of the product.
And we talk about leadership in a team of three. What young founders misunderstand about hierarchy, the courage it takes to say I do not know everything, and the very real imbalance between what early team members put in and what they get back out.
Tanishq is honest, reflective, and refreshingly unguarded about the pressure of building something this early. I have huge respect for what he is doing.
Want the full story? Listen to Scott’s full Blueprint conversation with Tanishq Jain here.
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/5a7749c2-3e49-4b44-a247-9b4f98a6a780/
If you enjoyed this conversation you might also love our episode with Rebecca Ghim, founder of The Ferm, on turning food waste into something worth eating and building a values led business without losing yourself in the process. Watch the full episode here: https://www.thethirdhalf.uk/p/tth-blueprint-episode-21-rebecca
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