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Watt It Takes
with Billy Parish

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Billy Parish, Founder and CEO of Mosaic. Billy shares how he went from creating the Energy Action Coalition, the world’s largest youth clean energy organization, to founding Mosaic, the largest residential solar-plus lender in the U.S.

 
 
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Billy Parish

Founder and CEO
Mosaic

 
 
Billy Parish is Founder and CEO of Mosaic, the largest home solar finance company in the U.S. In 2002, he dropped out of Yale to found the Energy Action Coalition and grew it into the largest youth clean energy organization in the world with over 300,000 members. He was lead architect of the Clean Energy Corps proposal to create 5 million new green jobs, which was incorporated into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and also expanded Americorps with a new “Clean Energy Service Corps”. He has been honored as a Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero,” and was elected as a Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
 
 

Watt It Takes is our monthly podcast that tells the stories of founders who are building a carbon-free future — their upbringings, their risks, their failures, and their breakthroughs that are transforming our world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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