Mike Calise

CEO, EVisionary

So we can change the world together by allowing people to have options other than oil to fill up their cars.

Tesla, Better Place, and Coulomb Tech

The constant vacillation between immortality and death.

1. Lack of respect for the technology adoption cycle (Geoff Moore)
2. Unaware of personal blind spots

1. When you get that feeling in your gut, it's not nerves or anxiety, it's the feeling you get when your ideas and actions are most alligned with your vision. (George Soros' son said his Dad literally got stomach pains when he saw a good trade)
2. Let it all go, that's when it comes to you and your shareholders
3. Find a way to work with people you can not relate or identify with. That's a great challenge but it's easy if you treat it as a logic game vs. an emotional interaction.

We can!

• A $1.00, one-day increase in a barrel of oil takes $12 million directly out of the US economy.
• If the average price of gas goes from $3.00 to $4.00 (or any full dollar increment) per gallon, that would affect $120 billion in spending which would cripple job growth and send global stock markets reeling.
• When gas prices spiked to over $4.50 a gallon in 2008, Californians who are vulnerable, had to spend $6.5 billion more on gas than over the previous year.