
He learned to sell software, mortgages and solar. Then a school-building trip to Mali changed what he thought all that machinery was for.

From the Senate to ad tech, quantitative finance and home-energy lending, Jesse Comart has built a career around one stubborn idea: communication works best when it is connected to the business, the employees and the people outside the building.
GoodLeap turned a five-minute financing decision into a clean-energy growth engine. The bet now is bigger - that the same software connecting a contractor, a homeowner and Wall Street can also connect millions of houses to the electric grid.