The Business of Disrupting and Democratizing Energy

Bill is a career tech CEO with multiple exits, including an IPO. He worked at Greylock as a venture capitalist and, after selling his marketing tech company Silverpop to IBM, he shifted roles to help lead IBM’s global strategy for their CEO and SVPs.

He spent the last few years creating media ventures in climatetech. He started with a TED talk which grew into the #1 ranked podcast on renewable energy. His new book, Freeing Energy, is a practical guide for disrupting and democratizing energy.

 

In this episode, we’re discussing…

 

  •        [3:07] His background and what made him do the jump to all these

 

  •        [7:19] What is climate tech?

 

  •        [12:57] How much more money will be needed for clean energy?

 

  •        [19:11] What happens if the grid goes down for a day, or week?

 

  •        [21:12] How to get started as a climate tech entrepreneur

 

  •        [27:13] How can energy be one of the most powerful tools for social equity?

 

  •        [30:31] How can people find his book?



  •        [32:51] How much storage is there, Is it going to get better, if the grid goes down or a storm knocks it out?

 

Resources from Bill

 

Freeing Energy | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Bill Nussey LinkedIn |

ABOUT BILL NUSSEY

Bill Nussey is a career tech CEO with three successful exits, including an IPO. He has also been an investor with the venture capital firm Greylock. After IBM acquired his marketing tech company Silverpop in 2014, he was promoted to IBM’s VP of Corporate Strategy, helping the CEO and SVPs set the company’s overall strategy. As a CEO, his companies have raised more than $400 million, created thousands of jobs and billions in shareholder value.

In 2016, he left IBM to create the Freeing Energy Project. It began with his 2017 Ted talk then grew into 100+ articles and, most recently, the #1 ranked renewable energy podcast, The Freeing Energy podcast. On December 7 2021, all this came together in a book called Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-scale Solar and Batteries To Disrupt the Global Energy Industry From the Outside In . It is the result of 320 interviews across several continents. Bill received a degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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