The financial press loves to compare investors to Midas, the mythical king who could turn anything he touched into gold. The comparisons are often over-blown; but if there were to be any two folk who came close to having the Midas touch in the climate tech world, it would be Swedish financiers Harald Mix and Carl-Erik Lagercrantz.
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