Rapid Response: Charging toward a clean energy future, w/EVgo's Cathy Zoi
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Partnerships can be the secret weapon to rocketing your company to the next level. That’s what Cathy Zoi discovered when she became the CEO of charging station network, EVgo. Whether it be partnering with grocery and department stores, or aligning with the Tesla customer-base, targeting allies and collaborators are a crucial catalyst for how EVgo has grown to become the nation’s largest public EV charging network.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help |
| 0:08.5 | you better understand the world of business. |
| 0:11.2 | It's called HBR IdeaCast. |
| 0:14.2 | Each week, Harvard Business Review editors bring you the world's leading business and management |
| 0:18.5 | experts. |
| 0:19.5 | But it isn't just another business podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | We think you will find so many connections from IdeaCast to how we hear at Masters of |
| 0:26.6 | Scale think about scaling our business. |
| 0:29.8 | For instance, they often approach business challenges from contrarian points of view, |
| 0:33.8 | telling surprising stories like, what can we learn from NASA about managing high risk projects? |
| 0:40.4 | And what can a comedian teach us about using humor to lead a team? |
| 0:45.0 | Subscribe to HBR IdeaCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.2 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:54.4 | The impacts of climate change are being so palpably felt, it behooves all of us to figure |
| 1:00.6 | out how we can do clean energy and do it economically. |
| 1:06.2 | When I was at the Department of Energy, goodness gracious, batteries were 10x what they |
| 1:10.4 | cost today. |
| 1:11.4 | Solar was 10x what it cost today. |
| 1:13.4 | With more use, more learning, all of those costs come down. |
| 1:17.5 | We must accelerate our use of non-carbon-emitting sources as soon as possible. |
| 1:24.3 | Using the pandemic, EVGO doubled in size and we went truly national. |
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