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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Clean Tech Investments coming under Fire – Are Success Stories Merely Spin?

Clean Tech Investments coming under Fire – Are Success Stories Merely Spin?

This past week PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel — who was also an early investor in Facebook — made headlines when he declared that “Cleantech is an increasingly large disaster that people in Silicon Valley aren’t even talking about any more. The failure in energy and transportation points to a larger failure in clean energy — we aren’t moving any faster, literally, than we were when modern airplanes first came out.”
Those comments ruffled the feathers of Clean Tech VC Vinod Khosla, who responded “Cleantech is not a disaster.” So who is correct? It depends entirely upon how one defines success:
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