In 2003, Shah founded SunEdison out of his home. Within four years, the company had 600 employees. In 2009, SunEdison was acquired for $200m by MEMC, the silicon wafer giant, and a very comfortably off Shah was able to turn his attention to entirely new endeavours. (Today, SunEdison is one of the world’s most important PV developers and EPC companies, with a rapidly growing presence in the developing world.)

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