Lyndon Rive is Elon Musk's cousin, their mothers being twins. He discusses how his upbringing shaped his drive to tackle climate change through solar energy, and whether his family pushed him toward saving the world or simply let him find his own way.
Okay, so you are a very close cousin to Elon Musk, and your brother also grew up in the family, apparently. And so your mothers were twins, right?
Yeah.
So what was it in this family? I mean, this is amazing what you guys have accomplished. And is it like, did they say, lyndon, you have to save the world, you have to, you know, the world's getting too hot, we need solar energy. Or did she just sort of, kind of let you run free and hopefully.
The environmental thing came up way later. We were brought up in South Africa. The country still doesn't do recycling. It's just to put it in perspective. So there's no. Maybe they're just starting now. But environmental is not a big focus, or at least that wasn't when I was growing up. That happened as we got older and I'm not sure if it just happened that we wanted to solve the problem. But before SolarCity, we had a software business. And nothing wrong with software. Great, great software companies out there. But when you're in the grind, back to the kung fu fighting, every morning you're waking up and you're just into the grind and you just work, work, work. At the end of the day, if the only outcome is financial, that gets old. And you want something that can get you more motivated, because otherwise you don't work as hard, you don't push yourself as hard. And so finding a job where you can actually have a financial reward but also have an environmental reward or a different reward, that is something that help humanity, that's exciting because you can get up, feel passionate about it, and it's a double win.
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