Dusseldorf It is one of the fastest growing green tech companies in Europe: the solar start-up Enpal. Earlier this year, the company doubled its valuation to €2.25 billion. In the new episode of Handelsblatt Disrupt, founder and CEO Mario Kohle talks about the German solar industry, the federal government’s energy policy and his personal rise from working-class child to millionaire.
“Capitalism is the best tool to stop climate change,” he says in an interview with Handelsblatt editor-in-chief Sebastian Matthes. Coal also talks about the China business and the dependence of German industry on China. “You can actually say that pretty much every solar module in the world has passed through a Chinese value chain at some point,” he says
Matthes and Kohle also talk about the founder’s personal ascent, the question of why he remains optimistic despite the multiple crises, and why the shortage of skilled workers does not play a role for the Berlin start-up Tesla boss Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Zalando bosses Robert Gentz and David Schneider, who both invested in his solar startup.
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