Idealab, Heliogen founder Bill Gross sold solar energy kits in 1973

Idealab and Heliogen Founder Bill Gross speaks onstage during Vox Media’s 2022 Code Conference on September 08, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California.Jerod Harris | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesBill Gross is best known for founding the technology incubator Idealab in 1996, after starting a handful of companies in software, education tech and online services spaces. In the quarter-century since, Idealab has has started more than 150 companies and had more than 45 successful exits. Today, Gross devotes virtually all of his time to being the CEO of clean energy company Heliogen, which he launched out of Idealab in 2013, scoring Bill Gates as an early investor.But Gross has always been a climate tech entrepreneur. He’s just had to wait for the world to catch up with him a bit.He actually started a solar device company when he was in high school, long before he got into software,…

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