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Tony Seba

Author, Educator, Co-Founder RethinkX

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, angel investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

He is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation”, “Solar Trillions” and “Winners Take All”, and co-author of “Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030”, “Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030” and “Rethinking Humanity: Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom”.

He has been featured in several movies and documentaries including Bloomberg’s Forward Thinking: A Sustainable World, 2040, and SunGanges. He is recipient of many awards including the Savvy Award (2019), Solar Future Today’s Visionary Influencer Award (2018), and Clean Energy Action’s 2017 Sunshine Award. He is the creator of the Seba Technology Disruption Frameworkâ„¢ (download PDF).

His work focuses on technology disruption, the convergence of technologies, business model innovation, organizational capabilities and product innovation that leads to the creation of new industries and societies and the collapse of existing ones.

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He has been a keynote speaker at hundreds of global events and organizations including Google, the European Commission, Davos, COP21, CLSA, J.P. Morgan, Nomura, National Governors Association, Conference on World Affairs, the Global Leaders Forum, Intersolar and China EV100.

He has taught thousands of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders at Stanford Continuing Studies. He has a Stanford MBA and an MIT degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

He accurately forecast the speed and magnitude of the energy and transportation disruptions now unfolding. His 2005 Winners Take All book portfolio returned about 2,500% over 15 years, compared with about 180% return from the average US equity fund (as of Feb 2020).

Publications

Rethinking Climate Change

How Humanity Can Choose to Reduce Emissions 90% by 2035 through the Disruption of Energy, Transportation, and Food with Existing Technologies

Rethinking Energy

The Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble in Conventional Energy Assets

Rethinking Energy 2020-2030

100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginning

Rethinking Humanity

Five Foundational Sector Disruptions, the Lifecycle of Civilizations, and the Coming Age of Freedom

Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030

The Second Domestication of Plants and Animals, the Disruption of the Cow, and the Collapse of Industrial Livestock Farming

Rethinking Transportation

The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries

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Clean Disruption

How Silicon Valley will make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars obsolete in 2030

Solar Trillions

7 Market and Investment Opportunities in the Emerging Clean-Energy Economy

Winners Take All

The 9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy

Movies

2040 Movie
Sunganges Movie
Forward Thinking Movie

Audio & Podcasts

The Future of Farming Interview
The Future of Farming

27 August 2020

Listen on BBC iPlayer
The Future of Food Interview
The Future of Food

27 August 2020

Listen on BBC iPlayer
Rethinking the Future Interview
Rethinking the Future

30 June 2020

Listen on BBC iPlayer