Zach Supalla

He is hell-bent on global domination.

We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.

Sure.

So actually, my background, if you go back even further, starts at McKinsey.

So I used to be a management consultant.

And while I was there, actually, even in college, I sort of realized too late I should have been an engineer and decided that I would sort of over time make my way diagonally towards the technical side of the world.

So, you know, I started at McKinsey.

I was doing operations work, a lot of supply chain work.

So that's where I got to know engineering and in particular how products get designed and made.

Um, and then, uh, while I was getting my MBA, I did an internship at Groupon working in sales operations.

And so I ended up with this nice mix, I think of, um, sort of technical competence, particularly on the hardware side and business competence in particular in sales and marketing.

And then when I started the company, I just taught myself how to do all the things I didn't yet know how to do.

So I did a lot of front end engineering early days.

I actually continue to do some of our front end engineering work.

just to kind of teach myself.

And I learned everything there on YouTube and GitHub and things like that.

Sure.

So Particle is an IoT platform, which basically means when a company out there, typically a company that currently makes a physical piece of hardware, and it might be anything from a coffee maker in a consumer context to an irrigation system or a

you know, a system that detects methane leaks on oil and gas rigs.

Yeah, absolutely.