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Taking the Leap

Dustin is a real-life Doogie Howser graduating high school and being told by Harvard he was too young to live in the dorm. His academic career takes him to Silicon Valley where he learns sales and finds himself in the midst of the clean tech solar energy revolution!

Show Notes

Dustin Markowski – CEO of Power Solar
 
4:00 min – Graduated High School at 14 and was accepted to Harvard.
10:30 min – Advice to young people – people want to speak into your life. Be careful who you listen to!
13:00 min – Dustin ditches a legal career in corporate law to go into technology and sales.
14:00 min – Dustin discovers frameworks for success in sales and business.
  • Slow down and do things well. Perfect your process.
  • Success takes many times years of failure to learn and grow to hit your success
  • “The only difference between success and failure is when you decide to end your story.”
  • Don’t own labels that others give you!
21:00 min – Failure is not fatal when you learn from it.
24:00 min – Dustin makes the leap to cleantech and solar energy
  • There is nothing like owning your own business
  • The economics are in your favor
  • The gig economy is growing faster than ever
  • Advice – Young people should start a business. You have a cushion that you don’t have at other times in life.
30:30 min - Why Solar Energy makes sense now?
  • One electric vehicle doubles the energy need of a household. The average household have 1.8 vehicles. We could see a tripling of energy usage of the average home in the US in the next decade we move to electric vehicles.
37:25 min – Government Investment in Clean Tech
  • The government is helping businesses and homeowners go solar but why don’t government agencies have budgets to go solar themselves?
  • Inflation Reduction Act – Tax credit is now 30%
  • Nonprofits can now take part of this tax credit
  • This not about selling but really about educating people about the benefits
48:00 min – We are at the start of the clean tech revolution just like technology was in the early 90’s

Book Recommendation
  • Commanding Your Morning – Cindy Trimm
  • Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff
Twitter @DustinPaul
Website - Power.Solar 
Twitter @RobertDickie
Website - RobertDickie.com

Creators & Guests

Host
Robert Dickie
CEO, Author, Entrepreneur, Investor
Producer
Mitch White
Freelance Audio Engineer, 2011 Recording Connections Certified Audio Engineer
Designer
Tristin Dickie
Nashville Fellows Program 2022, Marketing Assistant for Affinity Technology Partners, Professional Photographer freelancer. Go VOLS!

What is Taking the Leap?

Taking the Leap Podcast hosted by Robert Dickie III discusses changes in our global economy impacting the way we work and live. For young professionals starting their careers, mid-career professionals navigating changes and late-career professionals thinking about starting an encore career, Robert and his guests discuss the global economy, technology, workplace developments, and all the latest changes impacting our professional lives.