Alex Wright-Gladstein is the CEO and Founder of 📝Sphere as well as Co-founder of Ayar Lab. She is an 🏷️#entrepreneur with a passion for addressing 📝Climate Change. She has also worked at the leading smart grid company, EnerNOC, where she managed and grew data-driven energy efficiency and demand response programs. She has also worked for early-stage clean energy companies Loci Controls and Angaza Design. At present, Gladstein is focused on:

Building a movement to get 401(k) money out of fossil fuels (as founder of Sphere) and cutting energy use of data centers in half as cofounder of Ayar Labs [1]

She credits her 12-year-old self for planting the seed that would eventually mature into her interest in climate change; which she pursued in college:

Around that time, I started to realize that technology had a really important role to play in climate change.  Especially, coming up with solutions that don’t require us to change our standards or quality of life, but allow us to live with a smaller impact on climate. So, even though I thought technology could be the answer to climate change, I realized I probably wasn’t going to be the person to invent the solution. So, I started thinking that perhaps if I could help inventors get their technologies out into the world, that would be a worthwhile thing to do. [3]

Wright-Gladstein received an MBA from MIT and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Tufts University. While at MIT, she was the Energy Practice Leader at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, helping students create clean energy startups out of MIT labs.

Aside from her positions in Sphere and Ayar Labs, she is also an advisor for environmentally-focused companies, C-Combinator and As You Sow.

Contexts

• 🏷️#alex-wright-gladstein (this is the 📝Root Memo)