Billy Parish Quotes

United States, Entrepreneur
September 11, 1981

Billy Parish (born September 11, 1981) is an American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Mosaic Inc., the largest residential solar lender in the U.S. Mosaic recently received a $220 million equity investment from private-equity firm Warburg Pincus and was named one of the 10 most innovative companies in energy by Fast Company in 2013 and 2014

Also known as Author, Activist

We're aiming to be the leading investment platform for the clean-energy economy.

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- Energy
With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.

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- People
- Energy

Solar will outcompete other technologies.

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The market we're going after is the clean-energy market.

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- Energy
As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.

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- World
- Good
- Energy
Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.

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- Job
- Small
- Beginning
At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.

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There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and 'Chain yourself to the White House.'

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- House

Any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. It's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade.

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- Society
The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

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One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.

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- People
- Energy
You make the road by walking.

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- Road
- Walking
We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.

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