Bloomberg New Energy Finance Founder Michael Liebreich

Watt It Takes

This episode was first released on September 22, 2020.

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Michael Liebreich, the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

Michael had been many things, from entry-level analyst to Olympic skier to a crestfallen dot-com entrepreneur. And then in the mid-2000s, he found his home in the clean energy economy.
Unemployed, he used a team of interns to begin compiling data on clean energy investment. And that turned into a 140-employee business that Bloomberg LP purchased in 2009.

This conversation was recorded in front of a live remote audience in the fall of 2020.

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