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比尔总，在1973年的能源危机期间，在高中开始了他的第一家公司太阳能设备。他在流行的科学杂志后面售出了10,000多个套件和太阳能产品计划，帮助他通过加州理工学院支付，他于1981年毕业于机械工程学位。在CALTECH中获得专利并出售高端扬声器。毕业后，他为Lotus 1-2-3电子表格创建了一种自然语言界面，然后由Lotus获得。In 1991 he started Knowledge Adventure, making multimedia educational products, becoming the 3rd largest in the educational software market before selling to Vivendi in 1995. In 1996, filled with ideas and inspired by Thomas Edisun’s research lab, Gross founded Idealab, an incubator whose mission is to challenge the status quo and tackle big ideas that others will not. Idealab just celebrated its 20th anniversary, and in that period, has started more than 100 companies, with more than 40 successful IPO’s and acquisitions. Among Idealab’s successes is GoTo/Overture, where he is recognized as inventing the CPC (cost-per-click) business model that powers most of the monetization of the internet. He licensed the technology to Google and sold the company to Yahoo in 2003. Gross has also started many solar energy companies, including eSolar, Energy Innovations (acquired by Suntech), RayTracker (acquired by First Solar), and Thermata (acquired by Solar Reserve). Today he runs Edisun Solar Microgrid, a company with a breakthrough solution to make baseload solar power practical and scalable. Edisun is pioneering a radical cost-reduction in solar energy with a new method of closed-loop concentration and a patented Rock-Air thermal battery. In addition to serving as Chairman of the board of both Edisun and Idealab, Gross is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Caltech and of the Art Center College of Design.