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 cleantech and high-tech serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, a Stanford University lecturer in entrepreneurship and clean energy, a keynote speaker, and the author of Winners Take All: 9 Basic Principles of High-Tech Strategy. Seba has taught Clean Energy - Market and Investment Possibilities, High Tech and Cleantech Strategic Marketing, Finance for Entrepreneurs, Marketing for Engineers, and Business and Revenue Models Innovation. He also lectures at Singularity University and top business institutions throughout the world, like The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School, as well as in-house at some of the world's most prestigious high-tech firms, including Google, Inc. Tony Seba has more than 20 years of solid operational expertise in high-growth high-tech enterprises. At Utility Scale Solar, Inc., he was Vice President of Corporate Development.

There he assisted the company with growth strategy, finance, and business development with plant developers and partners, all while it was still in the garage. He was formerly the creator and CEO of PrintNation.com, a B2B ecommerce site that he built into the unchallenged market leader, garnering honors such as the Upside Hot 100 and the Forbes.com B2B 'Best of the Web'. Seba led two venture capital rounds, earning more than $31 million in funding from well-known silicon valley venture funds, hired a full management team of 100+ workers, and oversaw the establishment of strategic collaborations with some of the world's most prestigious companies. Prior to joining PrintNation, Seba worked at Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security in business development and strategic planning.

Seba has worked on over a dozen projects, including solar technology, mobile browsers, Java security, electronic payment technology, and ecommerce infrastructure. Seba is a regular speaker at clean energy, clean technology, entrepreneurship, and high-tech conferences, as well as industry and business events. He has received entrepreneurship awards and has been featured in Business Week, Investors Business Daily, Forbes, Fast Company, Success, and other publications. Seba serves on the boards of directors and advisory boards of high-tech, educational, and non-profit companies.

Tony Seba has a master's degree in business administration. with a B.S. in Business Administration from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) awarded him a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering. Tony Seba's website is 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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