Opower Co-Founder Dan Yates

Watt It Takes

This episode originally aired August 16, 2021.

In this episode: Emily’s conversation with Dan Yates, the co-founder and former CEO of Opower.

Opower was based on a simple premise: send paper mailers to utility customers comparing their electricity use to their neighbors. And if people saw they were doing poorly, they’d make changes. It worked.

Over time, Opower inked deals with the world’s biggest power companies and started processing vast amounts of smart meter data -- making it arguably the biggest energy efficiency success story in business. The company went public in 2014 and was sold to Oracle in 2016.

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

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