Claire Broido Johnson | Co-Founder of SunEdison & Board Member for the Sierra Club Foundation
Description
In this episode we will be speaking with Claire Johnson, a co-founder of SunEdison, which at its peak had a market capitalization of $10 Billion and more than 7,000 employees. Sun-Edison is largely attributed as the pioneer of the US solar industry. In this conversation we discuss the origin story of SunEdison, the ‘solar as a service’ and ‘pay as you use model’ which it pioneered, and some of Ms. Johnson’s key learnings during it all. Hope you enjoy our conversation!
Topics covered:
1. What led Ms. Johnson to work in solar and get involved in co-founding Sun Edison
2. The process for convincing the first adopters of SunEdison solar systems (aka Whole Foods)
3. SunEdison had 50% of the whole country's regulatory affairs staff
4. Is now the time to start a solar company?
5. Professional piece of advice to give to younger self
United States
