Zach Dell
@ZachBDell
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Building @Basepowerco. Formerly @ThriveCapital @Blackstone. Grateful
Joined February 2020
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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My first interview with @ZachBDell & @JLopas, the Co-Founders of @BasePowerCo. Timestamps: 0:38 Violent Execution & Base Pace 1:45 Focusing on actionable metrics 4:27 Scaling from 40 to 240 employees in 12 months 7:31 Executing against the original vision 10:58 Entering
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Incredibly proud of @MichaelDell and @SusanDell and the example they continue to set. Grateful for their generous investment into our country's future and the hope this will create for so many. Excited to see the impact this gift unlocks for communities everywhere.
$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each. Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation
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Compete with @PJClark at your own risk. Completely unsurprised by his success over the past few years. And he’s just getting started…
BREAKING: Inside Thrive Capital w/ Partner Philip Clark Investing in OpenAI, Wiz, Cursor, Nudge, Physical Intelligence “Josh always had a line to me when I joined Thrive, which is that the people who win deals are the ones who want to win them most.” In this conversation,
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This was one of those "holy shit we're gonna change the world" weeks at work
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Super excited about this new product from @basepowerco Infinite backup for long duration grid outages Texas homeowners, sign up today
As we've grown to serve thousands of Texans, we’ve heard from homeowners that staying powered through everyday outages matters, but many remain concerned about protection during longer outages when the next major storm hits. We're excited to introduce the Base Generator Recharge
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Great conversation w @ZachBDell of @basepowerco on Energy markets Surprisingly fast solar adoption Batteries and next-gen distributed grids Do regional energy costs drive future AI dominance? Energy as an input to everything humanity does
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You don’t want to compete with a team having fun. The best will win through creative: speed, taste, and craft compounding. Know your audience, clarify your message, make it beautiful, and have fun doing it.
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@ZachBDell, CEO of @basepowerco, draws parallels between Tesla, SpaceX, and Anduril, companies that brought technology into stagnant industries. He believes energy is next.
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Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land & the State of Energy Zach Dell is founder and CEO of Base Power, an energy tech company that builds affordable, reliable power via home batteries. In this episode of Monitoring the Situation, a16z General Partners Erik Torenberg,
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. @Statesman Your first headline was a defiant promise: to stand for democracy and champion the public’s right to know. From the ink on thousands of papers to the screens of millions, that promise has echoed for over a century. Stepping into your iconic South Congress printing
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Fun chat with @shaylekann on @CatalystPod If you work in the industry and are curious to learn more about how our model works, this one is for you
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Podcast Episode · Catalyst with Shayle Kann · 10/09/2025 · 40m
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Factory🤝Product The rebuilding of the grid won't happen unless we deploy physical assets, at scale. Those assets have to come from somewhere - and that somewhere needs to be right here in the US. @basepowerco's first factory is actively under construction just south of
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Fun to join @SquawkCNBC this morning to talk about what we are building at @basepowerco
Check out Base Power CEO & co-founder @ZachBDell on CNBC Squawk Box earlier today talking about our Series C.
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It was great talking to @espricewright & @rmcentush on the pod about all things electric grid. The grid itself - less so generation - is the real bottleneck to American Dynamism.
“You should be paying for the thing, not the thing getting to you.” Base Power co-founder Justin Lopas says generation keeps getting cheaper, but delivery costs are still rising. Rebuilding the grid is the next big challenge. @JLopas @basepowerco
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500 days since launch, Base Power is announcing our $1B Series C and the opening of our Austin factory. We skipped the launch video this time. Built something real instead. A newspaper written by real people, featuring our own team, for you. And yes, we made a real crossword,
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This month, right on the heels of today’s Series C announcement, @basepowerco will operate the largest aggregated distributed energy resource (ADER) fleet in ERCOT. Our fleet of residential, behind-the-meter Base Power Company batteries demonstrates two important things:
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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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Spent the day at Base in Austin this week, and the talent they’ve assembled is incredible. The product and vision is audacious. How many companies might become one of the most important in the country? Not many. Base is one.
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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