‘It’s only when you see 49-ton trucks in China running on batteries that you realize how serious electrification is’: Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on Europe’s incumbency problem | Fortune
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In 2015, Greg Jackson founded Octopus Energy, now one of the biggest energy suppliers in Europe. He talks to Fortune about the continent’s electrification challenge—and reveals the one decision he took at the beginning of his career that changed the way he does business.

“If we want more growth, we need to allow creative destruction so new companies can deliver the productivity we need.”

Octopus energy ceo greg jackson

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    See, I uh came away with a different conclusion. We are chasing endless growth like the naive fools we are. And one day it’s going to wipe humans from the planet like a bad cold.

    • kalkulat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      wipe humans from the planet like a bad cold. And maybe, just maybe, ‘like before’.

      (There is some physical evidence out there that we weren’t the first to make this mistake.)