Adam Farrell founded Silicon Solar when he was 15. It had a single product, a raw solar cell for use in educational kits, and was based in his bedroom. Today there are about 260 products, a busy Web site, sales are growing at about 10 percent annually, and the company is putting a large addition on a building it moved into last year.
Farrell owns 60 percent of the corporation. His older brother, Matt Farrell, a 24-year-old Cornell graduate, serves as vice president and owns the rest.
Adam Farrell expects to graduate in December 2006 with a degree in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.
So, I just want to kind of show you know our customers, today we serve 72,000 customers to date from when I first started the company. We sell to the FBI, army, navy, Cornell University, pretty much any major organization you have heard off that deals in solar technology we have sold to. First bas...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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