SolarCity vs Startup The Entrepreneurial Path

What this short covers

Claire Tomkins, founder and CEO of Future Family, shares her entrepreneurial journey, including raising over $500M in capital from top-tier investors across debt and equity, and navigating fundraising during the pandemic.

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and and why joining a another company, you know, like you did with Solar City versus starting your own. Obviously, now you're doing your own, but um why not just like plunge in? I I was very lucky to have some really great mentors when I, you know, living here in Silicon Valley and I think the advice I got which I'm so glad I took was you know and at that time I didn't have also the the idea fully formed in my head. probably the most important thing about being an entrepreneur is you better love that idea because you are going to live and breathe that idea for many years. So at that precise moment, I didn't yet know what my company would be. And the mentorship I got was, you know, go very specific, go into a hyperrowth company because it's one of the unique things about living in Silicon Valley, maybe also New York or Tel Aviv is you can go into hyperrowth. And I just happened to have

that opportunity, right? I had a big network in renewable energy, was very passionate about the space and joining Solar City at the time made a made a world of sense.

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