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In 2012, I met the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, at a reception in Washington, D.C. At the time, I was a PhD student at the University of Oxford, where I was developing new materials to generate more electricity at lower cost than existing solar panels. When I shared my research with the mayor, he wrote his cell-phone number on a card and told me to call him. I assumed that he was just being polite, so I returned to Oxford and got busy finishing my thesis. A few days later, the deputy mayor emailed asking if I’d like to serve as the mayor’s senior advisor and, if so, could I speak with the mayor tomorrow about the role. Within a week, I’d moved to Los Angeles. I arrived underprepared but overconfident. I had never installed a single solar panel, yet Mayor Villaraigosa envisioned deploying more solar power than any other city in the country. Nevertheless, I was well versed in the latest advances made in scientific labs around the world, so I believed I could fulfill the mayor’s vision by using brand new solar technologies far superior to the off-the-shelf solar panels that every other city was deploying.