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Hayes Barnard

Founder & CEO, GoodLeap · 1 appearance on the record.

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Hayes Barnard is the founder and CEO of GoodLeap, a financial technology company in renewable energy. In 2008, he founded Paramount Solar, which was subsequently acquired by SolarCity and Tesla.

13statements → 12claims → 12claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.85/5average certainty → 1.62/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

6 supported 2 partly supported 4 contradicted how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 11 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 12 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hayes argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Barnard: GivePower desalinates ocean water for 0.25 cents per liter
“And we have the ability to pull that water out of the ocean for half of a half of a cent. So in my mind, it's the most affordable, sustainable, healthy water that can be produced in the developing world per gallon. Yeah, per liter. Half of a half of a cent. So…”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 18:32 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Barnard: Paramount Solar invented selling residential solar digitally
“We kind of invented the ability to sell residential solar digitally, on the internet, over the phone, without meeting with the customer in person.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 5:04 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Hayes Barnard on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Hayes Barnard said on American Optimist that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Barnard: Paramount Solar invented selling residential solar digitally
“We kind of invented the ability to sell residential solar digitally, on the internet, over the phone, without meeting with the customer in person.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 5:04 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Opinion
Barnard: Elon Musk is the greatest product mind of our generation
“Look, I think Elon is the greatest product mind of our generation. I mean, he is just savant in his ability to design solutions.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 7:00 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Barnard: GivePower desalinates ocean water for 0.25 cents per liter
“And we have the ability to pull that water out of the ocean for half of a half of a cent. So in my mind, it's the most affordable, sustainable, healthy water that can be produced in the developing world per gallon. Yeah, per liter. Half of a half of a cent. So…”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 18:32 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
Barnard: SolarCity grew to 17,000 employees and 40% US market share
“When I joined SolarCity, we had around you know, 1200 employees. We grew that organization to 17,000 employees. And we were hiring about 500 people a month, to give you an example. And we had 40% market share nationwide. There was no number two, Joe. We had th…”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 8:51 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Barnard: 40% of US Carbon Emissions Come From Homes
“What people don't know is 40% of all carbon emissions in the United States come from the home.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 15:09 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Barnard: Three billion people worldwide lack access to electricity
“Three billion people don't have access to electricity.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 23:39 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Prediction Held up
Barnard: EVs will integrate with home bi-directional power in under three years
“Your electric car will be fully integrated in this house we're sitting in in probably under three years with bi-directional inverters where you'll say, well, wait a minute, I kind of want to, you know, deploy energy into my car right now, or maybe I want my ca…”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 27:56 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Contradicted
Barnard: Residential Battery Attachment Rate Jumped to 25%
“I mean, the battery storage attachment rates increased significantly over the course of the last couple of years. It used to be two or three percent. Now it's like 25%.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 15:18 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Barnard: US Roofing Is a $50B Market Versus $12B for Residential Solar
“Now, if you think about other industries, like roofing as an example, roofing's a fifty billion dollar marketplace. That's compared to residential solar, which is about a twelve billion dollar marketplace.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 15:34 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Barnard: Residential Solar Market Is Growing at 25% Annually
“Growing at 25% a year for residential solar.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 15:46 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Barnard: HVAC Accounts for 50% of Residential Energy Load
“If you think about that HVAC's, 50% of the load in a home.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 16:14 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Partly supported
GivePower installed solar systems on 2,750 schools across 17 countries
“And so we put solar on 2750 schools in 17 countries.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 17:40 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale
Assertion Supported
Barnard: Only 3% of US homes have residential solar installed
“Only three percent of homes in the United States have residential solar on top of them. It's only growing at about 500,000 homes a year.”
Hayes Barnard Feb 23, 2022 ▶ 33:13 How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How Hayes Barnard Is Transforming Solar Tech & Green Housing · Joe Lonsdale Feb 23, 2022 27m
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