Former star Tesla executive Boryana Straubel, 38, dies
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Boryana Straubel, 38, Dies; Philanthropist and Former Tesla Executive
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Does Recycled Gold Herald a Greener Future for Jewelry?
Boryana Straubel, founder of Generation Collection, calls recycled gold a way to clean up electronic waste and a canny investment.
Boryana Straubel, the founder of Generation Collection, which features fine jewelry made from recycled gold, silver and platinum.Credit.via Generation Collection
April 23, 2021
With economics and industrial engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, and a decade working at Tesla, the electric-car company where her husband was a co-founder, Boryana Straubel had long set her sights on the technology revolutions spawned in and around Silicon Valley.
Batteries and solar energy were firmly on her radar. Fashion and jewelry were not. At least until several years ago, when she began learning about the devastating toll those industries take on the planet.