Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

$85 million investment to like go build a company.

And there's like a period where I was very bad at building a company.

I'm certainly not perfect and I have very long ways to go.

I think we've gotten better, though, sort of the trust and empowerment portion.

And today, what that looks like for me is I'm not critical path on on anything.

And that's by design.

If I were to have to disappear for two weeks to do X, like the company would run well.

And so in that world, your job basically becomes

One, set like a very clear direction for the company.

So have like a clear view of the world as exists today and then try to propagate that into the world as will exist in a few years and then try to do that to say, here are the technologies we really, really need to make sure go right.

So that's a portion of my job.

Another portion of my job is kind of just to accelerate the work that's happening is hiring excellent people.

This is raising more capital.

This is adding new products.

And then the management portion, if you do your job right, becomes quite like once you've built trust with people and it's like a year long period of building trust with someone who bet on you, like who's the I don't know, the mentor, the because the last valuation I saw mock is creeping up on $2 billion.

It is.

I think I said it.

It's a good emergent accident from, I think, doing the right thing.

Yeah, absolutely.

Look, no one exists in a vacuum.

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