HAYES BARNARD figured out how to make costly green energy affordable—and it has made him one of the richest people in America.hat if you were sitting on the antidote for Covid and you didn’t deploy it? That’s how I feel,” says Hayes Barnard as he guides his 2012 Tesla Model S
for green home improvements Democrats pushed through in August. With only 4% of American homes having made the switch to solar, Barnard points out that GoodLeap has plenty of room to grow. By 2009, Paramount Equity was reeling from the housing bust. As mortgage volume fell 75%, Barnard was forced to fire or furlough more than half of his 600 employees. “They say you’re never a real CEO until you go through a near-death experience. And that one was mine,” he admits.
By 2016, SolarCity was struggling and being acquired by Musk’s Tesla. Barnard left to pursue his next brainstorm. Paramount had either leased solar systems to homeowners or sold them outright. Now he wanted to finance homeowner purchases—with no money down. That way, buyers could claim green tax credits while using the energy bill savings for monthly payments.
I'm going to look into using Goodleap to acquire solar in Colorado.
and Sam Bankman-Freed has figured out Crypto