In coming to terms with the heartbreak of watching a solar company like Sungevity struggle, I'm looking at what made me love that place so much and why I fought so hard/stuck with it. It's because this guy, Danny Kennedy, didn't just build a business, he built a place with a lot of heart and soul that attracted a special kind of employee. Particularly at the end there, I woke up every day feeling like I was fighting for my colleagues and contractors jobs. It wasn't about me, it was about the collective. Shit got pretty emotional for me. In my on-boarding, Danny showed us the hidden stop sign in the Sungevity logo - a little reminder to all of us that amidst the daily slog of a job, we truly were working to stop climate change. The Black Lives Matter movement was just taking shape in Oakland and I remember him saying, "Black lives do matter, and I will be at that march." I also noticed that a solid portion of my incoming class was female - clearly they we...