cole jones
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building @basepowerco | formerly @starlink & @SpaceX
Austin, Texas
Joined July 2014
"Everyone's definition of good is just the best they've personally seen." What @ZachBDell has learned from Blackstone, @JoshuaKushner, @JLopas, @colecjones + @JaredMGreene, Dana Paz, Dino and @MichaelDell (his father): Blackstone → Discipline as a Competitive Advantage “I saw
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Lots of talk around American manufacturing, but few companies are actually making it a reality. @basepowerco is setting up Base Factory 1 right across the street from their Austin HQ. 🇺🇸
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Yesterday we announced our Series C. This funding will power our next chapter: building our Austin factories, starting with Factory 1 at the former Austin American-Statesman printing press downtown. We sat down with three of our leaders, Dino Sasaridis (Head of Hardware), Andy
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Congrats to @basepowerco ~ @ZachBDell @colecjones cc @vanlancker on their huge Series C. It’s awesome to lead the wave of affordable consumer home energy in America, but I’m also here for the cute newspaper, stickers, and nice copywriting 📰🗞️ (that’s also important)!
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@emmettshine @basepowerco @ZachBDell @colecjones @vanlancker love a team that scales electrons and vibes in equal measure. branding game’s been tight from day one.
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Very exciting! Batteries are the future.
Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we
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Check out Base Power CEO & co-founder @ZachBDell on CNBC Squawk Box earlier today talking about our Series C.
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Many people ask us how @basepowerco has accomplished so much, so fast. Working closely with the team since day one has shaped how we think about execution. There’s a quality to how they move we call Base Pace. We wrote about what it is and how you can bring it to your company.
Today we’re announcing $1B of Series C funding and calling on engineers, operators, and creatives everywhere to join the charge to build the future of American power. In less than two years, Base has become one of the fastest growing energy companies in the country. We’ve
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Every Battery is a Time Machine The largest and most impactful companies of this generation will be the ones that use intelligence, hardware, and technology to build the new products that replace the old. In space and telecommunications, that is SpaceX. In defense, that is
Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we
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News: @basepowerco raises $1B and issues a call to JOIN THE CHARGE in building America’s Power Company™. Terrain partner @vanlancker sat down with CEO @zachbdell in front of Base Factory 1 to discuss hiring, hardware, culture, and what it takes to build a new energy future.
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Today we’re announcing $1B of Series C funding and calling on engineers, operators, and creatives everywhere to join the charge to build the future of American power. In less than two years, Base has become one of the fastest growing energy companies in the country. We’ve
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Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we
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We’re hiring across pretty much every skillset - member experience, design, demand gen, sales, engineering, and more. Join the Charge. Read more about the future of power: https://t.co/Wv3smmgHXL Come build it with us:
basepowercompany.com
Join Base Power and help power America. We're looking for world-class engineers, operators, electricians, and creatives to help fix the grid.
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Come Build the First Beloved Power Company. The future of power is a battery on every home. To make that future real, people have to love their power company - the way they love Costco’s samples or H-E-B's tortillas. That kind of love is earned, not bought. It comes from trust,
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Houston, we brought backup. Base is now available in the City of Houston with the only energy plan with a whole-home battery included. No solar required. Backup power for a fraction of the cost. Lower bills every month.
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While the film grain and music are great, the number of people in this ad not looking at screens is key to its resonance... Amid a sea of AI companies showing people disintermediating real life with chatbots or demonstrating the frightful scale of some superintelligence, Claude
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The Run: TBD. That’s the fun part, and it’s why we’re hiring. Building the first beloved power company means rethinking everything: hardware, operations, and creative. If you want to run at the intersection of growth, ops, and AI, join us:
basepowercompany.com
Join Base Power and help power America. We're looking for world-class engineers, operators, electricians, and creatives to help fix the grid.
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