Climate CEOs: Scaling Startups
Energy Storage Software: 200+ Projects + 10-Year Contracts
05 Sep 2024
WATTMORE helps optimize energy storage projects with software, backed by 200+ deployments, decade-long contracts, and insights from founder JW Postal’s decades in clean energy.WATTMORE is an energy storage software company providing battery sizing, economic outcome forecasts, battery charging and discharging, and more.JW is a serial founder and clean power executive (Because Solar, Main Street Power, Clean Energy Collective, SunShare), Vice Chair (Western Caucus) of the Democratic National Committee, Board member of Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, and Board member of SELF (Solar Electric Light Fund).In this episode, you’ll learn these four important takeaways and much more.What it means to be a “deal whisperer”How his experience developing hundreds of solar projects helps his software company growHis five-year vision and recurring revenue contracts of 10 years or moreWhat he learned from his mother, who was ordained in the Soto Zen Buddhism tradition🔗 PODCAST SHOW LINKS:WATTMORE - https://www.wattmore.com JW - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jopostal📈 JOIN EFI’S CLIMATE CEO PEER GROUP:Become an EFI Climate CEO Fellow — Join North America’s top private peer group community for growth-stage CEOs in climate tech and sustainability. We’re a community of 85+ CEO Fellows, Alumni Allies, and Mentors (investors and post-exit CEOs) representing over $30B of market value or financial assets for climate solutions. Apply here: https://www.entrepreneursforimpact.com📣 READ EFI’S NEWSLETTER:Join over 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators who get our three-minute read about changing the world through startups, finance, humor, and wisdom. https://entrepreneursforimpact.substack.com✍🏼 LEAVE A PODCAST REVIEW:To help more people discover the climate tech CEOs and investors we interview, please take one minute to review or rate this podcast. Since we don’t take any sponsors for this podcast, we appreciate this small gesture of your appreciation. Here are instructions: https://ratethispodcast.com/guides/where-can-people-leave-podcast-reviews🤔 PODCAST HOST:Dr. Chris Wedding is the founder of EFI (climate CEO peer groups), cofounder of Terraset (carbon removal), Senior Advisor at Javelin Capital (investment banking), Board member at World Tree (regenerative forestry), Board Advisor at DG Matrix (next-gen power electronics), Duke & UNC professor, ex-private equity investor, ex-investment banker, occasional monk, father of three, 2x ax-throwing champ (huh?), Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2006 (Google it), and super humble guy (as evidenced by this long bio).
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