Pulling Power from the Sky: The Story of Makani [Feature Film]

X, The Moonshot Factory

Why leaders watch it

Documents a long moonshot effort that ended without commercial success, showing how teams persist, decide and wind down.

A feature-length film by the Makani team chronicling their thirteen-year effort to build energy kites that harvest wind power, with footage from test sites in Hawaii, California and Norway. It shows the engineering, the team and the eventual shutdown.

Takeaways

• Hard bets can fail despite excellent work
• Know when to stop
• Teams need honest assessment of economics

Topics: Innovation & creativity, Company case studies

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