Zach Dell

A skill that I think he developed working for Elon at SpaceX and leading the manufacturing efforts at Anduril.

Cole and Jared, who are two of our first hires who both came from the Starlink team at SpaceX, have really taught me how speed can become a strategic weapon.

So even when urgency doesn't feel necessary, it almost always leads to better outcomes.

They've really helped me understand this idea that speed and rapid iteration unlocks new problems that the team earns the right to solve, which moves us forward.

So said differently, if you do 10 of a thing and then 100 of a thing and then 1,000 of a thing, there are new problems that you get exposed to when you go up in orders of magnitude that you wouldn't be exposed to if you didn't reach that new level of volume that are really worth solving.

And so running from 10 to 100 to 1,000, in our case, that thing is installations of batteries.

It just speeds up that learning so dramatically.

And that's been an incredibly valuable lesson.

And then Dana, again, one of our first hires, our head of deployments, who worked with Justin at Andoril, has really taught me the importance of process orientation in an operational context.

Honestly, she brings a Blackstone-like attention to detail to day-to-day operations and has really leveled me up in a big way in this regard as someone who's come from a

finance investing background and doesn't have a lot of operational experience.

She's helped really bring that to life for me and bridge that gap.

And then finally, Dino, our head of hardware, who led Powerwall Engineering at Tesla.

He was there for 13 years.

He worked on the original Roadster.

He's really brought all of us up to a new level of

I'd say clarity of communication.

So his ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms is truly world-class.

He just has an incredible ability to drive clarity of thought and quick decision-making in highly technical contexts, which has been a secret weapon for us as we develop the next generation of our technology.

And then honestly, most formatively, I've learned so many lessons watching my dad run Dell over the last 20 or so years that I could really tell what was going on.