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How supply chain chaos sank Sunfolding Feb 26, 2025 · 33 mentions

• ▶ 0:49 Lara Pierpoint In 2015, she was running a solar tracker company that she founded called Sunfolding. 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 2:27 Lara Pierpoint The Davis project marked the start of Sunfolding's eight-year journey to prove that its solar tracker worked in the field, while securing its supply chains and also convincing bankers that the technology worked. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:52 Lara Pierpoint Layla launched Sunfolding in 2012. 7 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:20 Lara Pierpoint That would become a common theme for the next few years as the company tried to keep pace with the declining cost of solar. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:51 Lara Pierpoint After the break, Layla tells us about what started to go wrong for Sunfolding.
• ▶ 26:35 Layla Madrone And throughout Sunfolding, even from the beginning when we were working with the government, they were like, don't you need two different materials so that in case something happens with the one, you'll have something to fall back on? 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 29:04 Layla Madrone Horrible thing that could happen to a company. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:11 Lara Pierpoint What gives you hope about climate tech innovation, despite the outcome first unfolding? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 39:56 Lara Pierpoint There's so much to learn from so many things that folks are doing in climate, but the way that you're arriving, and how candid you're being, and how willing you're being to share the full story on Sunfolding, I think there's so much that…
• ▶ 40:22 Lara Pierpoint Layla Madrone is an executive in residence at Activate and the former founder and chief technology officer of Sunfolding.