Manuel Schoenfeld: Managing a Multi-Million Dollar Company from the back of a Van
From Y Combinator to Sequoia in less than six months.
We had to pinch our arm after seeing a reply from Manuel’s sitting in our inbox. A simple, “happy to talk” was enough to send us to cloud nine, and instantly into a state of hyper-activeness. Never would we have imagined it was possible. Manuel is a genius, but one of the humblest persons we have ever talked to. The entire conversation felt like we had been catching up after a long day.
Manuel is currently the founder and CEO of PowerX, a company with the mission to solve climate change by helping households track water, electricity and gas usage using a unique hardware sensor. And oh boy, have they received funding and support from la crème de la crème including Sequoia, Y-Combinator, and Antler. It is safe to say that the wind is blowing in their sails.
Manuel experienced things most people can only dream of, such as travelling through Europe in an old van, teaching autistic children in China, battling a dangerous disease, and graduating from Harvard University.
But that is only one part of the story.
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