CEO War Stories: Inside a Green IPO - Day4 Energy

The bean counters in the crowd ask about share dilution to which both MacDonald and fellow panelist Richard MacKellar, former CEO of Brightside Technologies (bought by Dell Inc.) answer “significant” and “don’t expect to get majority ownership in the renewable energy business - it’s just not possible.”

From the back, a keen, 20-something engineering Ph.D candidate piques with the question to the former MIT professor, “where do you see renewable energy going?”

MacDonald straights up and says that “I won’t recognize the renewable energy technologies my grandchildren will be using…they will renewable energy systems, hybrids of wind, solar, thermal and others.”