Jigar Shah

There will be an LPO next year. There will be an LPO. And we have 212 active loan applications seeking $324 billion. And my advice to the next LPO director is enjoy this extraordinary team that we were able to build. Enjoy the amazing people who have decided to interrupt their careers and move it here to the loan programs office and to the Department of Energy.

And dream big, do big, figure out how to help these American innovators and entrepreneurs realize their dreams.

Oh, my goodness. I was supposed to be prepared for this. Well, you know, the book that has forever changed my life is Nassim Nicholas Tlaib's book, Fooled by Randomness. I read it before I started SunEdison a long time ago, and it reminds me today that all the things that people take credit for A lot of it was luck, and it's important to figure out luck versus what you actually did.

The second book would be What If We Get It Right by Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson, and she is such an inspiring person. I've had the pleasure to know her for years, and she's really attracted many of the brightest minds in the climate movement to really think through what this looks like and how this can be really a positive world that we're going into.

Because I really do think that getting this right is going to be an amazing future for all of us. And then the last book was, I recently read Romney, A Reckoning by, I think, McKay Coppins.

And I think that when you think about his journey, right, and the journey of many folks who just want to do right by people, who just want to make this place the best version of what America can be, I just think it's super inspiring.

Thanks for having me.