Interview with Kleiner Perkins’ Ray Lane on Renewable Energy Investments
I’m on my way up north for a few meetings in the Bay Area, the first of which is an interview with Ray Lane, Managing Partner of Kleiner Perkins, the legendary venture capital fund. Ray has generously consented to let me interview him for my next book on renewables, in which we’ll cover certain economic issues.
I was just putting the final touches on my interview script, which I hadn’t planned to publish, when it occurred to me that readers may find some of this interesting:
Ray: I first met you at the Detroit auto show in late 2009. You impressed me by taking the stage and essentially pointing out exactly what had noticed, i.e., that the other presenters had sugarcoated the work that we in the US had done in the industry of clean energy and transportation. Can you elaborate? What’s happened since, in your estimation? (more…)
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