Lyndon Rive (Solar City) - The Science and Incentives Behind Solar

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Lyndon Rive, Co-Founder and CEO of SolarCity, and Tim Draper, founding parter of the venture capital firm DFJ, discuss the clean-energy company's mission to save the planet while exploring the many aspects of its business, from the science of solar power to the need for better government incentives and policies.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today, as I think you all know, we're lucky to have Lyndon Reeve here.
0:21.6	Lyndon is the founder and CEO of Solar City.
0:25.6	Solar City with his, he started Solar City in 2006 with his brother, Peter.
0:30.6	And under their leadership, the company has grown to more than 13,000 employees
0:35.6	and has become one of the most recognizable brands
0:38.6	in the clean tech sector.
0:41.5	They are now selling approximately one out of every three new solar installations in the country.
0:47.2	But I just want you to know that Lyndon is not all work and no play.
0:50.6	Lyndon is also an aficionado of underwater hockey, and he welcomes all questions
0:55.7	on underwater hockey at any time. Also working with Lyndon today is Tim Draper. Tim is a Stanford grad,
1:05.2	as I think many of you know. His venture successes include Skype, Tesla, Theranos, Twitch TV, and so on.
1:12.7	So hundreds of startups he's been involved with.
1:16.2	He's long been recognized as a leader in the VC world and an outspoken person on many issues, I'd say.
1:23.2	And he's been called...
1:24.6	We're all outspoken persons on many issues.
1:28.7	And perhaps that's a bad thing.
1:30.6	I don't know.
1:31.3	Anyway, Tim has also recently received the World Award for Entrepreneurship.
1:36.7	This was just given to him in China.
1:38.7	And maybe also around a little closer to home.
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