Welcome back, Solar Warrior!
I'm honored that you're joining us for another fantastic foray into the world of solar energy. And I'm even more honored that you're tuning in this week. Merry Christmas to all of you listening.
Some of you will identify with today's guests and the problems that he solves. If you've spent any time developing large or small solar projects, you know it can be an endless string of whack-a-mole in terms of organizing, checking off tasks, data rooms, diligence, checklists, Dropbox, Excel, Asana, Salesforce, the tools are disorganized, and the tasks disjointed. It's always baffled me why after 15 plus years, seems like we’re lacking a better way to organize and manage solar projects.
Today’s guest, Philip Bruner, was frustrated as well. After Philip had struggled with the data disorganization of developing his own projects, he went on the search to find and then to create a tool that would solve it. And ENIAN was born. His journey to build software as a non-technical co-founder is one that I found insightful and entertaining. I hope you'll stick around and learn as well from his approach and maybe even his mistakes.
Phillip co-founded his first start-up in 2009 called SCENE – a social enterprise that accelerates renewable energy and ICT access for communities worldwide. Then in 2012 he was recruited by a commercial law firm to develop and execute >100 MWp of C&I solar PV, wind and small-hydro across the UK and India. At the same time he founded and led the Green Investment Forum, a private dinner club of c-level professionals overseeing a combined >$200bn in green assets.
His thought leadership has been featured in MIT Sloan Review, the FT and Johns Hopkins University Series on Sustainable Entrepreneurship as well as for the IIED and Oxford Research Group. He is also an EPSRC-funded PhD(c) in Geography at the University of Edinburgh.
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Resources
Connect with Phillip on LinkedIn and Twitter
Check out the work of ENIAN on LinkedIn, Twitter, and their website.
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Books mentioned
Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com
The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
States and Markets - Susan Strange