Early stage venture capital increasingly is a key source of finance for clean tech and clean energy, says Andrew Chung, a partner at Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on both areas. In this interview with Knowledge at Wharton, he discusses how clean tech is set to grow quickly over the next decade, the challenge of government subsidies and how solar technologies are reaching cost parity with oil, along with other topics. “We exist on an electricity generation infrastructure and a transportation fuel infrastructure that’s been around for 50 years…. Some of the newer folks in venture capital are really trying to … reinvent and change that and redefine the paradigm.”

Download a transcript of this interview with Andrew Chung of Khosla Ventures

 

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