Sunil Paul
Sunil Paul is an investor and entrepreneur in early-stage clean energy companies. He has backed Advent Solar and NanoSolar, among others.
He is co-founder and former CEO at Brightmail, which was sold to Symantec. Before that, he was co-founder and chief executive of FreeLoader, and was Internet product manager at and director of corporate development at America Online.
Earlier, he was an analyst at US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, a senior engineer at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, and a NASA engineer at RMS.
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Adam Smith turns green
(Editor’s note: Sunil Paul is a former tech entrepreneur who several years ago turned his attention to green technologies, before it became a fad. We asked him to write a column for VentureBeat. See his LinkedIn profile for more about Sunil.)
We investors and entrepreneurs in the cleantech world have a guilty conscience. People often ask us, “Are you motivated by the money or by the mission?” It’s become unfashionable and a little shameful to say… Continue Reading