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Scaling Clean
Overview
- Overview
- Introduction
- Early Life and the Accidental Startup Path
- Key Mentorships and Lessons Learned
- Inspiration Behind Clean Energy
- From Writing Novels to Driving Energy Transformation
- Learning from a Growing Team
- Being a Female Leader in Clean Energy
- Cleantech Versus Mature Sectors
- Lessons in Resilience and Momentum as a CEO
- Lessons for Aspiring CEOs
- Success at Electron: Choosing What Not to Do
- Hiring and Finding the Right Fit
- Balancing Leadership and Self-Care
- Believing in Better Solutions
#Cleantechers -
On the show, we've had leaders with a variety of backgrounds. Some, like my guest in this episode, have come from investment and finance. But few have achieved so much so quickly in their careers as Jo-Jo Hubbard. This McKinsey veteran got her start in a fintech startup, then moved into renewable energy finance. From there, she helped found the UK-based Electron, a SaaS company, out to transform energy trading to make the grid cleaner.
Jo-Jo now runs Electron as CEO. Her company helps grid operators and municipal suppliers with what it calls “local flexibility markets” to help them adapt to our renewables-heavy grid.
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