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

 

Comments

New This Week

AI’s Supply Chain Problem

AI’s Supply Chain Problem

May 12, 20266 min read

The scarcest resource in AI isn’t chips or talent — it’s grid capacity, writes Wharton’s Santiago Gallino.

Lasting Loyalty: Why ‘Unreasonable Hospitality’ Wins

Lasting Loyalty: Why ‘Unreasonable Hospitality’ Wins

May 12, 20265 min read

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, restaurateur Will Guidara explains how “unreasonable hospitality” helps companies recover from failure and foster lasting loyalty.

Why Leadership Changes Often Backfire
Podcast

Why Leadership Changes Often Backfire

May 12, 202615 min listen

Professor Katherine Klein talks about leadership succession and what employees really want.