OMER BESE

I built my life around a simple question: "Why?"

That pursuit led me to become an unapologetic vitalist with just enough audacity to paint a giant mural of my own face in my living room, yet somehow still not "too good" to clean houses myself every weekday for six months for my startup.

I have a relentless curiosity and often find inspiration in obscurity, like the fact that we invented four-wheeled luggage after stepping on the moon. However, frustration often follows as we fail to evolve the status quo alongside inventions just like keeping the vertical design even though it creates significant instability with the added wheels.

I am equally baffled by things that make no sense at all as simple as pedal trash cans next to toilets, placed as if your foot can reach the lever while you are seated.

I usually don't like revolution, as it proves a lack of evolution. But looking at the current energy landscape, I am irritated by how stagnant the industry is. I am frustrated with incompetent incentive programs. I am appalled by asset-based delivery charges. I am tired of policies protecting monopolies, and mostly, of policymakers who act only when the lights go out.

I have worked in our family business, a small company, an NGO, and a startup, and finally, as a full-time founder. I can easily say I thrive in a startup environment, though I am not naive enough to do it solo anymore. I am looking for a place that I failed to create for myself as a founder, where I am surrounded by challenging minds who share the same enthusiasm, hunger, and a bit of frustration to dismantle the things that aren't working and build the things that do.

The curse of monopolies is that technology has evolved so fast that the laws protecting them are finally crumbling, and indeed lights did go out. This gives me the thrill of being part of rewriting the game and driving that much-needed revolution.