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#131: 20 Gigawatt-hours of Clean Power While Saving Customers Millions of Dollars— Naman Trivedi⁠, CEO of ⁠WattBuy⁠

Jun 1, 2023
43:58

⭐ 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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🌎 Entrepreneurs for Impact is on a mission to help climate founders, CEOs, and investors scale faster via the #1 peer group community in North America. Our invite-only cohorts grow through monthly meetings, annual retreats, and 1:1 coaching calls. Today’s highly vetted members represent over $8B in market cap or assets under management. https://entrepreneursforimpact.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Programs are led by Dr. Chris Wedding — 4x founder, $1B of investment experience, and Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill professor, with 70,000+ professional students taught, 25 years of meditation, an obsession with constant improvement, and far too many mistakes to keep to himself.


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