Lightship: Toby Kraus
Charged Up: ⚡️Electric Mobility, 🥾Hiking, 🌱Sustainable RVs and ✨More
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails.
In this episode, we drink a couple beers with Toby Kraus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship.
Toby, an EV OG, walks us through his love of the outdoors, his journey from Wall Street to Tesla, and how he helped build the first electric travel trailer. So pack a bag and join us as we hit the road to explore how Lightship is forging the future of the electric mobility industry.
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
"It's incredible what a fellowship of people can do when they work together."
- Toby Kraus, Co-Founder and CEO of Lightship
What we drank during the episode: Force x Distance IPA and Camino Brewing 🍻.
Enjoy the show!
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧑💻Ben Parker
🧑💻Rob Williams
🧑💻Elon Musk
🧑💻Jordan Sadowski
🧑💻Brian Popple
🧑💻Greg Reichow
🏅Guiness Book of World Records
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[00.00] Intro
[01:12] Meet Toby, founder and CEO of Lightship
[02:10] Beer Talk
[03:59] On Boulder
[05:37] The Great Outdoorsman
[07:25] Path to Sustainability
[08:10] Investment Banking
[08:42] Mount Rainier: Near Death
[12:20] Top 3 Life Goals
[14:42] Time Square and Morgan Stanley
[16:14] Quarter Life Crisis
[17:05] The Early Days of Tesla
[23:15] Breaking into Entrepreneurship
[24:56] Electrification and Proterra
[26:48] Finding RVs
[30:01] California to Colorado: The Roadtrip to Lightship
[34:02] The Lightship RV
[37:30] Lightship Energy Production & Storage
[41:01] Lightship Features
[45:59] Where will you go? Lightship’s first road trip
[50:00] Rapid Fire Questions
[52:30] Closing Thoughts
[54:12] Outro