| Intro | South African businessman |
| Is |
Business executive Businessperson |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Business |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
Pretoria, South Africa |
Lyndon Rive (born 22 January 1977) is the co-founder of SolarCity and served as its CEO until 2017. SolarCity is a provider of clean energy services that designs, finances, and installs photovoltaic systems, performs energy-efficiency audits, and retrofits and builds charging stations for electric vehicles. Rive co-founded SolarCity with his brother Peter in 2006.
Prior to co-founding SolarCity, Lyndon Rive co-founded the enterprise software company Everdream, which was ultimately acquired by Dell. Rive started his first company at age 17 before leaving his native South Africa. In his spare time, Rive plays underwater hockey. Rive is a cousin of SolarCity investor and entrepreneur Elon Musk, as their mothers are twins.
In 2010, Rive was named in the MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
In 2017, Rive announced he would cease working for Tesla, Inc. after it acquired SolarCity in 2016. He states that he will spend his time with his family along with further entrepreneurial activities. According to Rive, he left Tesla to work on a new startup.
Awards
In 2013, Rive was an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner in the Northern California Region.