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#004

The Veteran VC Who Left Venture Behind to Turn Canadian Wood Waste Into Jet Fuel

Keith Gillard57:00May 8, 2026
Startup

Keith's story as a founder, an investor, and now an operator. In 2020, he became convinced that venture capital was broken and pivoted hard into the lower middle market. Now he's betting everything on a multi-billion dollar clean tech project that doesn't follow the typical VC playbook, and that's exactly why it might work.