Driving Solar Growth Through Financing: SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive (Part 1)

Lyndon Rive co-founded SolarCity with his brother in July 2006. In its first three years, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California and grew to over 350 employees serving over 500 communities in three states. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 7)

SM: How much of this vision is already playing out? VR: A lot. Our leading edge customers already have it. You can go industry by industry and see how they are doing it. With the scope and velocity of life how it is, there is no other way to solve the problem.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 6)

SM: What was the highlight of your TIBCO journey? VR: The highlight is ahead. The best days are still to come.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you sold to Reuters? VR: For a couple of years I ran the company as a separate company that was part of Reuters. They cut another deal with me based on our profitability, so in the end they paid double the initial purchase price due to performance.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 4)

SM: What did you do after your meeting with the Goldman Sachs partners? VR: I borrowed a Sun workstation. They wanted to get into the commercial sector and they were competing in the engineering workstation area as well. We were the guys who took Sun and put it all over Wall Street. That turned out

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 3)

SM: You mentioned that you developed a value system during your time at Fortune. What was that? VR: Fortune Systems was an interesting company. I saw that it would be mathematically very difficult for them to make it.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 2)

SM: What did you do after MIT? VR: I did a couple of degrees at MIT. I did a bachelor’s, a master’s and part of a PhD, all in EE. While I was at MIT I started working as a consultant for the auto industry and became interested in robotics.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 1)

Vivek Ranadivé founded TIBCO in 1985. He is also the author of the New York Times business bestseller “The Power of Now: How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-time Technology” (McGraw-Hill, 1999). He was one of InfoWorld’s 2002 Top Ten Technology Innovators and was recognized by Ernst & Young as a 2002

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