Watt it Takes: Bloomberg New Energy Finance Founder Michael Liebreich

Sep 22, 2020

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Michael Liebreich

Bloomberg New Energy Finance

In this episode of Watt It Takes, Bloomberg New Energy Finance Founder Michael Liebreich discusses his winding, sometimes-painful, and often-surprising entrepreneurial path.

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Michael had been many things—from Olympic skier to a crestfallen dot-com entrepreneur. While unemployed in the mid-2000s, he began compiling data on clean energy investment, later building the enterprise into a 140-employee business that Bloomberg LP purchased in 2009.

Michael Liebreich founded New Energy Finance in 2004, serving as Chairman and CEO until its sale to Bloomberg LP in 2009. He remained CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance until 2014; since the start of 2018 he has been a Senior Contributor. Prior to founding New Energy Finance, Michael helped build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive. Today, Michael runs the advisory service Liebreich Associates and remains a leading voice on climate and energy issues.

“One adjective for me, at any point in my life, is 'competitive'. We don’t need to all hold hands, we need to compete because it’s under competitive conditions that we push renewable energy forward.”