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Watt It Takes
with Leila Madrone

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Leila Madrone, the Founder and CTO of Sunfolding, which designs and manufactures simplified solar trackers. Leila shares how she went from building robots at MIT and NASA to questioning the very nature of the machines we use for solar plants—and how that led her to found Sunfolding.

 
 
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Leila Madrone

Founder and CTO
Sunfolding

 
 
Leila Madrone builds breakthrough energy technologies at the intersection of mechanics, electronics, and software. She received both her bachelors and masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT with a focus on robotics and mechatronics. Her early career included automation for the genomics industry and the commercialization of NASA robotics hardware. As Sunfolding’s CTO, she drives overall company technical excellence and develops impactful solutions for the future grid.
 
 

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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