Zach Dell

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"It's a company that I deeply admire. I think the culture inside of SpaceX and the operational cadence and their ability to focus on the critical path and unblock things in their path to get to their goals — that are all oriented around their mission — is super inspiring and something we've tried to replicate."

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"We have a lot of the Elon companies, Tesla and SpaceX, and we have these companies to thank for training a whole cohort of engineers on how to build hardware products, how to scale manufacturing, how to ramp a supply chain."

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"I really admire Eric and Kareem at Ramp, who obviously are close friends of yours as well. And the way that they have built an incredible talent magnet in a category that on the surface is maybe not all that sexy, and then they've turned that category into something really sexy."

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"The Bloomberg Terminal is obviously this incredible technology that people in the finance industry use to ask questions and get information and think and analyze opportunities. And the dad terminal is my version of that."

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"I show up at Blackstone and there's a bunch of people who are kind of poking around the battery industry, the supply chain. We looked at carving out a lithium mine, which I spent a bunch of time on. The firm ended up buying a business that's now one of the largest utility scale battery developers in the country."

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"It was going to be EPC'd at the time by Solar City, who was doing a lot of utility scale EPC. This is before they sold to Tesla."

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"Leif Fixel — his firm Edition is our largest investor."