-: I'm Andy Marsh, I'm the CEO of Plug Power.
But Plug Power created the market for fuel cells
for mobility applications.
We actually put fuel cells into forklift trucks,
build hydrogen infrastructure to support that,
and we've grown that business in revenue
from zero million dollars 10 years ago,
to over $170 million worth of shipping today.
And when you think about the future
with automatic-guided vehicles,
vehicles need to be electric.
Then I think there's a question
of how you power those devices?
You can either power them with lithium batteries,
or you can power them with fuel cells.
Forklift trucks run as many hours in a year
as many cars will run in their lifetime,
so we work best in heavy usage, industrial applications.
And that's really where we're focusing the business.
Day's 24 hours,
but the hard of my day,
probably more days than not, I'm not in the office,
that actually going to meet customers,
or partners, or investors, or advisors.
And really getting a view of
how you put the whole company together.
I'm fortunate that I get to
spend a little time in engineering.
I get to spend a little time with finance,
I guess one of the advantages of being a CEO,
you can be a generalist in everything.
Get to spend a little time
with lawyers and government officials.
And so much of my days focus on how I bring partners,
and groups, and organizations together,
that better support the longer-term vision of the business.
I would say it's probably two, three days
I'm out of the office.
Sometimes I'm out of the office in Europe,
and sometimes I'm out of the office in New York City.
So there is a chunk of time, as I mentioned earlier,
that I'm dealing with people on the outside.
Of course quite honestly,
if you stay just inside the company,
you don't really learn what's possible way out there.
When I'm in the office, a good deal of focus
is on long-term strategic planning,
operational challenges and issues,
and probably most important,
spending time just talking and listening to people.