Silicon Valley Historical Association's video: KR Sridhar Bloom Energy Co-founder

Dr. KR Sridhar, co-founder of Bloom Energy, talks about bringing Bloom Energy to Silicon Valley from his garage in Tucson, Arizona. This is a segment from the full unscripted interview. Dr. KR Sridhar 2011 Interview Interview date: June 17, 2011 Interviewer: John McLaughlin, Historian and President of the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association Interviewer's question: "I read something online that when you came up here from Tucson, you loaded everything up on a couple of trucks. Could you talk about that experience a little bit?" Transcript: "When we started the company, there were four co-founders with me. They were all people that worked with me in the past. They were either my graduate students or people that worked in my lab. Or in the case of one of our founders, he was a friend, a mentor, and advisor who had built the first fuel cell that ever flew in space in the early Sixties working as a young engineer for GE. So all four of them, when I talked to them and said this is what we want to do and we want to move to Silicon Valley. They're completely brought into the mission innovation and said, "Let's do it." So we had a little garage in which we were doing little things and John Doerr actually flew into see that little garage and look at what we were doing before he agreed to invest in Bloom. And he said, "How soon can you get started?" We said, "How soon can you write the check?" And as soon as he wrote the check, within a matter of a week, we unloaded the little garage in Tucson and brought it over to NASA where NASA was gracious enough to give us an incubation space which is where Bloom first got started and it's at Moffett Field." For requests to use this copyright-protected work in any manner, email the copyright owner, Santa Clara Valley Historical Association. The contact information can be found on our YouTube About page.