I was at school at the Stanford Graduate School for Business, and went to China for an internship. When my classmate said solar, I was like, “O.K., let’s do it.” And then my husband went back into private equity and supported us. After Sunrun got up and running for a while, he left and started a company with a classmate, Tatcha. There were times in 2013 when Sunrun wasn’t profitable yet, and Tatcha was needing capital. Go home, little girl.” Fast forward to today: We have almost 300,000 customers and $5 billion worth of solar.

Source: New York Times January 23, 2020 17:03 UTC