The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
00:56:51 · Chase Lochmiller
[00:56:51] S0: I think the chase of 2,018 would find the fact that this all worked just so unbelievable because it was big, bold, and ambitious, you know, to build out this AI cloud platform. The energy first narrative would would come to fruition, and energy truly would become the bottleneck to scaling the layer of intelligence. That it would have happened at this scale, I think is... It would have been almost unbelievable eight years ago. And when I think back to that era, you know, there were there were certain people that like gave me great advice like during that period. And I had this dear friend that was an entrepreneur, and I think his company at the time was about 150 people. And when you're first starting a company, the idea of having 150 people working for you is like an almost unthinkable number of people. Like, it's like a... How how am I ever gonna have a 150 people work for me? And, you know, today, Crusoe is approaching 2,000 people, which which is just like, you know, even when I say it, it sounds like an insane number of people that have bet these ultra productive years of their career on Crusoe. And, you know, they're they're with us building in the trenches every single day. I just don't take it for granted that people have invested their time with us. I think it's, like, such a important investment that these people have made in sort of making the bet that this is an important thing that I wanna spend these years working on. I've so loved having you on.
00:58:14 · Harry Stebbings, Chase Lochmiller
[00:58:14] S1: As I said, it was such a joy stalking you and hearing many stories that I did hear about you. Yeah. So thank you so much for joining me, this [00:58:21] S0: has been fantastic. Thank you so much for having me. It's great.
00:58:26 · Harry Stebbings
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01:01:10 · Harry Stebbings
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