Founding a Solar Startup Feels Like Running Four Different Companies

Off Grid Electric is the world’s first distributed clean energy utility. They provide affordable solar energy to customers struggling with spotty or nonexistent grid access by selling solar energy systems on a pay-as-you-go, lease-to-own model – costing some homes as little as $7 a month. In this Fireside Chat, Co-Founder and CEO Xavier Helgesen tells Unreasonable’s CEO Daniel Epstein about why starting a solar power company in the developing world is really like launching four different startups all at once.