Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation by Tony Seba

Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation by Tony Seba

The industrial age of energy and transportation will be over by 2030. Maybe before. Exponentially improving technologies such as solar, electric vehicles, and autonomous (self-driving) cars will disrupt and sweep away the energy and transportation industries as we know it. The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of rocks. It ended because a disruptive technology ushered in the Bronze Age. The era of centralized, command-and-control, extraction-resource-based energy sources (oil, gas, coal and nuclear) will not end because we run out of petroleum, natural gas, coal, or uranium. It will end because these energy sources, the business models they employ, and the products that sustain them will be disrupted by superior technologies, product architectures, and business models. The same Silicon Valley ecosystem that created bit-based technologies that have disrupted atom-based industries is now creating bit- and electron-based technologies that will disrupt atom-based energy industries. This is a technology-based disruption reminiscent of how the cell phone, Internet, and personal computer swept away industries such as landline telephony, publishing, and mainframe computers. Just like those technology disruptions flipped the architecture of information and brought abundant, cheap and participatory information, the clean disruption will flip the architecture of energy and bring abundant, cheap and participatory energy. Just like those previous technology disruptions, the clean disruption is inevitable and will be swift. The industrial age of energy and transportation is already giving way to an information technology and knowledge-based energy and transportation era.

Tony Seba is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur in cleantech and high tech, a lecturer in entrepreneurship and clean energy at Stanford University, a keynote speaker, and the author of Winners Take All - 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy. Seba has taught Clean Energy - Market and Investment Opportunities, Strategic Marketing of High Tech and Cleantech, Finance for Entrepreneurs, Marketing, Engineers and Business and Revenue Models Innovation. He also teaches at Singularity University and top business schools around the world such as The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School and in-company at some of the world's top high tech companies such as Google, Inc. Tony Seba brings 20+ years of solid operating experience in fast-growth high technology companies. He was Vice President, Corporate Development at Utility Scale Solar, Inc. where he helped the company grow from the garage-stage through growth strategy, fundraising, business development with plant developers and partners. He was previously founder and CEO of PrintNation.com, a B2B ecommerce site which he established as the undisputed leader in its market segment, winning such top industry awards as the Upside Hot 100 and the Forbes.com B2B 'Best of the Web'. Seba led two venture capital rounds raising more than $31 million in funding from well-known silicon valley venture funds, hired a complete management team, 100+ employees, and managed the development of strategic partnerships with some of the world's top companies. Prior to PrintNation, Mr. Seba worked in business development and strategic planning at Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security. Seba has been responsible for the architecture, development, strategy, or commercialization of more than two dozen products including solar technology, mobile browser, Java security, electronic payment technology and ecommerce infrastructure. Seba speaks frequently at clean energy, clean tech, entrepreneurship and high tech conferences and industry and corporate events. He has been featured in Business Week, Investors Business Daily, Forbes, Fast Company, Success and other media and holds entrepreneurship awards. Seba is on boards of directors and boards of advisors of high tech, educational and non-profit organizations. Tony Seba holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http: //www.tonyseba.com

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ISBN 13	9780692210536
ISBN 10	0692210539
Title	Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation
Author	Tony Seba
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tony Seba
Year published	2014-05-20
Number of pages	290
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