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Tacoma-born CEO shines in the solar industry

Lynn Jurich was in somewhat of a hurry to start a company. The second-year Stanford Business School student wanted to try starting a business from scratch after working at an investment bank.

Her then-fiance, Brad Murray, was across the country at Harvard Business School and also itching to launch a startup. The couple agreed that the first one to launch would be the entrepreneur — at least in the short-term — while the other partner took a stable job to pay the bills.

Jurich won the race. In 2007, she joined fellow Stanford graduate student Ed Fenster to co-found Sunrun, a residential solar system provider. They wanted to tackle a potentially huge market. Jurich became one of the few women CEOs in the renewable energy industry. Sunrun has about 100,000 customers in 15 states, including its home base of California. It’s one of the leading residential solar providers in the U.S.

The interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.

Q: How has your business changed?

A: We had a big vision when we started. It’s fun to

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Lynn is chief executive officer and co-founder of Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s largest dedicated provider of residential solar, storage and energy services in the United States. With Sunrun co-founder Ed Fenster, Lynn invented the business model “solar as a service” that unlocked consumer demand for clean, affordable energy direct from residential rooftops. Today with more than $3 billion in installed solar systems across 22 states and the District of Columbia, Sunrun is revolutionizing how consumers get electricity.

Before Sunrun, Lynn worked at Summit Partners, whereas one of few female venture capitalists, she completed investments with an aggregate market value of over $900 million in the financial services and technology sectors. Lynn was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2013 and Forbes’ Women to Watch in 2015. Lynn earned her BS in Science, Technology and Society and MBA from Stanford University. In her free time, Lynn brings her competitive spirit to the tennis court and nurtures her appreciation of nature with long walks

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Lynn Jurich

American businesswoman and investor (born 1979)

Lynn Michelle Jurich (;[2] born c. 1979)[3] is an American businesswoman and investor who is the co-founder and former CEO of Sunrun,[4] a home solar power installation, financing, and leasing company headquartered in San Francisco, California.[3][5] In addition to leading Sunrun, Jurich is also an angel investor.[5]

Career

After completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University in 2002, Jurich had a brief stint as an associate at Summit Partners, a private equity firm.[6]

Jurich co-founded Sunrun in 2007 with Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates Edward Fenster and Nat Kreamer.[7]

Jurich was named one of the Ten Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs by Fortune magazine in 2009,[8] and received the 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Northern California region and was a national finalist together with SunRun co-founder Ed Fenster.[9] In 2013, Jurich was named one o

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