
He spent decades learning how power plants get financed, built and operated. Then Rob Lamkin bet on inflatable solar collectors - and learned that durable persistence means knowing what to keep, what to stop and what to build next.

The Longroad Energy co-founder has spent four decades learning that a power project is not a product launch. It is a promise measured in permits, financing, megawatts and years.

Matt Campbell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Terabase Energy, a Berkeley-based company building the digital and automation platform for utility-scale solar. After 15 years at SunPower working across 200+ projects in 20 countries, he launched Terabase from his basement during the pandemic in 2019 - and within three months had secured an 800 MW project in Qatar. Today, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Breakthrough Energy Ventures with $207M raised, Terabase's Terafab robotic assembly line is deploying solar at 2-minute cycle times, targeting 24/7 autonomous construction and a future where solar hits one cent per kilowatt-hour.