Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 4)

SM: What was the closing chapter of Air Communication? KS: There was real technology and we had orders coming in. People wanted to buy product, and the skeleton office sold a few hundred thousand dollars a year for the next several years.

Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 3)

SM: What was the purpose of starting Air Communications? KS: In 1992 I met some people and came up with a business plan to start Air Communications as a wide area wireless device company. You could surf the web and recieve a fax with a little dial-up phone called an Air Communicator.

Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 2)

SM: What was it like moving from National to Seiko Epson? KS: When I was at National we would make a big die that was 400 by 400 mils. If we could yield one die per wafer, that was amazing. We were told the Japanese must be dumping because they would sell a 6 gate

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Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 1)

Kevin Surace is on a mission to significantly reduce the use of fossil fuels and their effect on the environment. As CEO of Serious Materials, Kevin leads the company in its mission to reduce energy use and CO2 generation of the world’s largest contributor, our buildings. SM: Take us back to where your personal story

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Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 7)

SM: Whom do you view as your competition? PG: If you disaggregate Rearden Commerce into all of its parts, we theoretically compete with everyone. Nobody has pulled it together as a composite application besides us.

Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 6)

SM: At that point, who was helping you to get the company established? PG: Around that time I did start to create my technology advisory team. There is a saying that you can see further if you stand on the shoulders of giants.

Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 5)

SM: When did you actually get Rearden started? PG: I wrote the business plan at the end of 1999 and hired my first employee in March of 2000. One year later, to the day, Microsoft unveiled their version of this.

Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 4)

SM: How long did your efforts to revamp venture capital go on? PG: I did it for almost a decade. In 1988 I sat down with Burt and told him I was tired and despondent, which was completely against my nature. I was not helping my companies or doing anything I set out to do.