Lyndon Rive (born 22 January 1977) is a South African businessman known as the co-founder of

SolarCity SolarCity Corporation was a publicly traded company headquartered in Fremont, California that sold and installed solar energy generation systems as well as other related products and services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers ...

, and its CEO until 2016. SolarCity is a provider of photovoltaic systems and related services. Rive co-founded SolarCity with his brother Peter in 2006. Rive started his first company at age 17 before leaving his native South Africa. He then co-founded the enterprise software company Everdream, which was ultimately acquired by Dell. In his spare time, Rive plays

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. Rive is a cousin of

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as their mothers are twin sisters. In 2010, Rive was named in the ''MIT Technology Review's''

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as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. After

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acquired SolarCity in 2016, Rive announced in 2017 that he would leave the company and spend his time with his family along with further entrepreneurial activities, including working on a new startup.

Awards

In 2013, Rive was an

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award The EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards previously Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards is an award sponsored by Ernst & Young in recognition of entrepreneurship. Founded in 1986 in Milwaukee as a single award, as of 2016 twenty-five pro ...

winner in the Northern California Region.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rive, Lyndon 1977 births Living people People associated with solar power People from Pretoria South African expatriates in the United States Musk family South African people of Canadian descent White South African people