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Lyndon Rive is the chief executive officer of SolarCity, a national leader in solar power design, financing, installation, monitoring and related services. He co-founded the company July 2006 with the goal of significantly reducing the cost of solar power and building a trusted national brand adopted by millions of homes. In its first full year of operation, SolarCity became the largest residential solar power provider in California. SolarCity passed the 3,000 customer mark in 2008, and introduced a solar leasing program that allows customers to pay less for solar power, from day one, than they previously paid for electricity. SolarCity has introduced a number of innovations, including the solar lease and solar community program, that have subsequently become widely adopted across the industry. Prior to SolarCity, Lyndon founded Everdream, an industry leader in software and services for large-scale distributed computer management. Lyndon negotiated the company's partnership with Dell Computer, which acquired Everdream in 2007. A lifelong entrepreneur, Lyndon founded his first company at the age of 17 in South Africa, and in his spare time has been a member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey Team.