Who owns 5 hours energy

The water treatment company Culligan will market, install and service the systems. Bhargava made most of his money from 5-hour Energy, and has since poured his money into charitable endeavors and political donations. Facebook Twitter Email. Stage 2's invention philosophy is: Go big or go home.

Jack Juni, a Stage 2 engineer in the film, says that Bhargava is constantly telling the engineers: "If it doesn't make a big difference, find something else to do. Bhargava elaborates: "If it doesn't make us money but it really changes the lives of people, we're going to do it And if you come up with something cool that's not [useful], we don't do it.

I have no interest. I don't want to be cool. On what an entrepreneur's job is all about. Stage 2 has built a generator that uses bicycle-peddle power. The film states that three billion people worldwide have no electricity or electricity for just two or three hours a day. One of Stage 2's inventions is a hybrid bicycle that you peddle for an hour--and it creates enough pollution-free power to provide 24 hours' worth of electricity.

The profitable company has made Bhargava the richest Indian or in very close competition with Sun Microsystems founder and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in America and a legend in Lansing, Michigan where he is based.

Inventing It, or 2. Finding It. Keep things simple. Thanks for subscribing to our newsletter. We'll send you new resources and updates every Wednesday. Join over 40, of your peers who receive regular updates on Fundable, crowdfunding, and starting a business. Fundable is a software as a service crowdfunding platform. A huge stake of that wealth will go into a design and engineering laboratory called Stage 2 Innovations. To change the world, what you have to do is invent more stuff, says Bhargava in his film.

I have no interest. One hour of pedaling is transformed to 24 hours of electricity for off-grid areas of the world—enough to recharge a cellphone, light up a house or power an electric kettle—all without waste or utility bills. Next year, Bhargava plans to ship 10, of these free bikes to India, with initial pilot testing planned in the northern state of Uttarakhand before the nationwide roll-out.