# Founder and CEO @ Jumpstart Energy

Period: 2018 to 2020

Founded and sold Jumpstart Energy. The first company I built that had to change shape under me because reality refused to cooperate with the original plan.

My first real education in building around a commercial wedge instead of an intellectually satisfying thesis.

Jumpstart did not start as a lending-analytics company. The original idea was a global marketplace for clean-energy capital. That idea ran into securities law, project economics, and investor-developer mismatch. The eventual business that worked was an ML underwriting product for solar loans, bootstrapped to profitability and sold.

## Selected coverage and IP

### Fast Company on Jumpstart Energy

Date: 2018 - Fast Company
Feature on making it easier to invest in clean energy projects.
Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/90255483/this-new-site-makes-it-easy-to-put-your-money-into-clean-energy-investments

### Integrated Machine Learning-Based Methods and Systems for Automating Financial Data Analysis and Interpretation

Date: Jumpstart Energy - US patent application
US patent application, docket #08059-P0001A. Filed during Jumpstart Energy and covers the technical foundation of Jumpstart's alternative-data credit model.
Link: coming soon

## Founder notes

### Post-mortem of Jumpstart (Part I/II)

Date: Dec 19, 2019 - Medium
My writeup of the original marketplace idea, the investor / developer mismatch, and why the first version of the company had to change shape.
Link: coming soon

### Post-mortem of Jumpstart (Part II/II)

Date: Dec 19, 2019 - Medium
A closer look at the underwriting pivot, the technical model, the limits of solar lending data, and the lessons I took from selling the company.
Link: coming soon

### Jumpstarting the Energy Market

Date: Jun 17, 2018 - Medium
The original long-form thesis behind Jumpstart: universal electricity access, renewable infrastructure, and why I initially believed a marketplace could redirect capital more effectively.
Link: coming soon