
Before he sold EV chargers, Alexander “Zander” Isaacson recruited students into a venture club. The same instinct led him out of banking, into Xeal, and through the less tidy business of building a company with other people.

The Xeal co-founder learned EV charging’s least glamorous lesson in concrete garages: if the network disappears, the product cannot. His answer was to move the essential work closer to the plug.