How Sheldon Kimber Built Intersect, the Power and Data Center Solutions Provider Fueling America's AI Boom
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Sheldon Kimber is CEO and Founder of Intersect, a provider of power solutions to the industries of tomorrow. In his prior role as COO of Recurrent Energy, he led the company's development, origination, EPC, and operations activities globally and helped lead its expansion from a five person start-up to a leading, utility-scale developer, eventually delivering 2GW of COD. Sheldon joined Recurrent Energy in 2007 having previously worked at Calpine, Goldman Sachs, and Accenture. He holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he taught project finance for almost 10 years.
Top 3 Value Bombs
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2. Curiosity drives innovation. A culture of 'why not?' opens new pathways to scale and resilience.
3. Earn your edge through experience. Success comes from putting in the reps, learning the system, and then building something better.
Check out the website to find Sheldon's blog and contact info. They are hiring across multiple roles - Intersect
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| 0:00.0 | Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by |
| 0:08.4 | high level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform. Today we'll be breaking down how Sheldon |
| 0:13.8 | Kimber built intersect, the power and data center solutions provider, fueling America's |
| 0:18.5 | AI boom. And to drop these value bombs, I have brought |
| 0:21.0 | Sheldon Kimber into EO Fire Studios. Sheldon is the CEO and founder of Intersect, a provider of power |
| 0:27.1 | solutions to the industries of tomorrow. And today, Farnation, we'll talk about the founding of |
| 0:32.3 | intersect. We'll talk about the first six months of a company, the make or break moments, |
| 0:36.6 | raising capital the smart way, |
| 0:38.2 | the mindset for building big and oh so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's |
| 0:43.4 | episode goes to Sheldon and our sponsors. Are you ready for the ultimate all in one platform |
| 0:49.8 | for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies, build funnels, |
| 0:54.5 | automate follow-ups, |
| 0:55.6 | manage clients, |
| 0:56.4 | and even white label |
| 0:57.3 | your own software, |
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| 1:02.2 | and visit high-level fire.com |
| 1:05.9 | to start your free trial today. |
| 1:10.0 | Sheldon, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming |
| 1:16.0 | successful that most people disagree with. |
| 1:20.4 | All right. |
| 1:20.8 | So do I say like, what's up, fire nation? |
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