March 31st, 2005
Interview: Bill Joy, the venture capitalist
Bill Joy, Sun co-founder and ex-chief scientist, who retired from the Silicon Valley company in September 2003, is ramping up his career as a VC partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (Amazon.com, Google, Netscape, Sun, etc). In a recent interview with News.com, Joy updates his once provocative ideas about the use of technology in industrial societies and then talks about venture capital prospects, including energy:
I’m interested in energy…It’s great that it’s so socially relevant, but it’s also an area of huge opportunity to create new more efficient forms of energy and apply that to the economy. There are a lot of factors coming together which likely will make this a very big area for change in the economy in the next 10 to 20 years.
Given predictions of oil prices surpassing $100 per barrel, alternative energy should be a lucrative area for Joy and other VCs.
| 04/14/05
