Entrepreneurs for Impact #131: 20 Gigawatt-hours of Clean Power While Saving Customers Millions of Dollars— Naman Trivedi, CEO of WattBuy
⭐ My guest today is Naman Trivedi, Cofounder and CEO of WattBuy.
WattBuy helps homeowners find the best electricity, solar plans, and more – all at the lowest price. Using just a home’s address, they crunch the data to recommend personalized bundles from the most trusted providers. To date, they’ve helped procure 20 gigawatt-hours of clean power while saving customers over four million dollars.
Partners include corporations such as Amazon, Redfin, and Samsung, as well as investors such as Schneider and MCJ Collective.
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🎙️ In this episode, we talked about:
- How they reduce friction to make customers’ decisions easier
- Why they focus on action and not just education around clean power choices
- How they bill their customers under a SaaS model
- Why they’re product- and service-agnostic in the clean energy industry
- Whether they sell on cost or climate in terms of priority
- How they do business with a focus on relationships, not transactions
- Why this Buddhist quote is relevant to his style of productivity – “Don’t just do something, sit there”
- Why he thinks to-do lists are useless
- And lots more
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