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Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:37:09 +0000

[...] Founding members of Solyndra walking out the door May 13, 2008 at … Greentech Media - Cambridge,MA,USA CIGS start-up Solyndra has raised over $79 million, but that’s not helping the company keep some of its original engineering talent. … See all stories on this topic [...]

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Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:01:44 +0000

[...] The patent for “Elongated PV Cells in Casings” is authored by two former Solyndra employees, Ratson Morad, now with Daystar, and Benny Buller, now with CdTe thin-film leader First Solar (First Solar, incidentally, projects annual production of 1GW in 2009). The other listed inventors are Christian Gronet and Markus Beck, Chief Scientist at Solyndra. (And as I said yesterday: Why do patent holders and early employees leave a company like Solyndra?) [...]

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:05:36 +0000

[...] The patent for “Elongated PV Cells in Casings” is authored by two former employees, Ratson Morad, now with Daystar, and Benny Buller, now with CdTe thin film leader First Solar (First Solar, incidentally, projects annual production of 1GW in 2009). The other listed inventors are Christian Gronet and Markus Beck, Chief Scientist at Solyndra. (Question: Why do patent holders and early employees leave a company like Solyndra?) [...]

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Greentech Media: Green Light » Blog Archive » Solyndra Ascendant? — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:03:59 +0000

[...] company. As secretive as you can be when you have 400+ employees, are looking for a valuation of greater than a billon dollars, and occupy a 183,000 square foot building on the side of a major highway. (I’ve verified those [...]

By: Josh P

Josh P — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:13:33 +0000

Mr.Michael are you crazy?? Dont u smell something fishy?? Why would someone “leave” a winning team?..Thats what we hear in the Solar Circles in the valley.Mr.Kanellos get good insiders in Solyndra and save at least this job of yours…3 more plants of Solyndra with a combined capacity of 1000 MW are coming up over next 3 years..only mass production can push the $/watt less and less..IMHO Nanosolar is crowing about for last 7 years…how many installations do they have? And Solyndra is not even 3 years old..still they have already shipped to several customers…Mr.Kanellos..r u listening?? cook a better story next time..

By: adam starr

adam starr — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:21:14 +0000

There’s more wrong in Kanellos’ entry then right. Solyndra is over $79M, but the statement is wrong in spirit. Solyndra has over $400M. With 400+ employees there burning over $10M per month. Every engineering vendor around knows that there building a second factory for the next 100 MW plant. If Kanellos could offer anything, he’d tell us if Solyndra’s product works, not a bunch of mis-information: Mr. J. Michael was not the CTO. He was the CFO. And Nanosolar is not in commercial production. But Global is. And Honda, Shell, Avancis, and Wurth. Miasole didn’t lose engineers. They fired 40% of the company when the new CEO came in. Now, they’re having employment fairs to find replacements. Why does Kanellos bother? If he can’t get the facts right and he can’t comment on the points that are brought up by the two previous comments here, he should look for a job that he can contribute to.

By: Tom Rafkin

Tom Rafkin — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:06:24 +0000

Solyndra’s $/W cost turned out to be too high once management figured out how to include everything they need to include — not competitive with First Solar. Miasole has the same problem. Two of a bunch of solar companies which VCs funded in 2005 oblivious to the low cost that First Solar was just about to deliver then. The VCs thought that the startups would be able to get out faster but manufacturing process development takes time and now these startups are out there behind the curve — and the manufacturing business is brutal to anyone who has higher technical cost. Plus First Solar is in volume in Malaysia and these startups are in California. Watch them to be the first casualties of a recalibrating market!

By: followthesun

followthesun — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:55:14 +0000

VC’s own solyndra now. that rocket is on the launch pad, the countdown has begun and ready to launch. out of their hands now. these guys have the magic formula, and are heavily recruited to do it again…and again…