Jonah Greenberger explains why he worked at Chevron before launching his own solar energy venture. He saw corporate experience as a way to understand the industry from the inside before building his own company.
I believe, Jonah, you had a passion for doing something meaningful in the solar space, but you made a really different decision about how to go about it first.
Yeah. So you kind of led me into this. So energy is an interesting field. You need some industry experience. It's like a very global industry with a lot of regulations. So I actually, when I was graduating, I did the Mayfield Fellows program, and then I decided to go to the largest company I could to learn about business. And I had studied mechanical engineering. So I went to Chevron, which was doing some interesting stuff in cleantech. And I went there to learn the processes that make a company tick at scale and what regulations work and what makes a company successful kind of in the energy industry. And I was there for longer than I thought. I was there for about five years, but I learned a ton and then started bright right after that. One of the reasons, actually, was this is kind of a morbid quote, but I think on people's deathbed, the number one thing they regret is not taking a risk. And so I read that once, and it kind of haunted me. And I was at Chevron, and it was haunting me. And once I felt like I'd been there and I started to get enough courage, I just decided I didn't want to be that person on my deathbed that had not taken a risk and did what I wanted to do. So that's kind of how this all started.
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