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Zach Dell

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  1. “I can tell you every time in my last four homes, you know, over 20 years I've owned four primary residences. And each time we move homes, I look at that and my LA home with a shake roof. You know, it wasn't worth in an old house and a house built in 1940. Like they were like, yeah, you can't really put solar on here. The whole house could collapse. And I was like, okay, you know, then the next one, same situation, you know, in the Bay Area, just this house is like old. It's a 1945 house. You can't do it. Modern house, beautiful. by this incredible modern masterpiece and they're like okay you're going to ruin the aesthetic you're going to take millions of dollars off the value of this house by doing it i'm like okay can't do it and now here i am on the ranch and it's like yeah just take one of your acres in the corner here and uh you can use like a quarter acre or less to just put a solar installation and run the cable here you'd be off the grid forever so”

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  2. “I mean, if you were to do bonds, you know, if literally the state of Texas did a bond for $100 billion, or they just did it, you know, I don't know, $10 billion at a time, 10% of homes at a time. They could just do $10 billion bonds, pay five, six percent on them, make the muni bonds or the people who buy them don't have to pay taxes, make some yum-yum skis, especially when interest rates come down. You just a $10 billion bond to put 10% on the homes, that would then make the upgrades to the grid and the upgrades to the sources of power. It would kind of crack the monopolies. It would make a more efficient market, I think is a very disruptive thing that he's doing.”

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  3. “Energy. And it's clear solar batteries is the cheapest, with the exception of maybe if there's a coal plant or a gas plant already installed and you put a data center smack dab on top of it. Sure. But let's keep our eyes on the prize here, folks. Really great job to Zach and his team. When your website or your app goes down, you just want to fix that problem as quick as possible. And that's why they're century, application monitoring software. That's essential for over 4 million developers today. Sentry handles all of your real-time era monitoring and tracing. So the moment something breaks, you know what happened. And you know why. And you know how to clean it up.”

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  4. “Put a battery or two. Maybe they cost $5K each. Maybe it cost them $1,000 or $2,000 to install. So it's maybe $7,000 a home. I'm talking about their cost. It's probably not that great. Maybe it's $10,000 a home if we just ramp it up. Well, if there's 10 million homes in this state and the state is having energy problems, well, maybe the state should be subsidizing that instead of building coal plants or whatever. And here in the great state of Texas, we have the most solar power of any state. I can tell you it's not because people here are woke or MAGA. It's because, like Zach said, they're focused on what is the cheapest.”

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  5. “Store energy when it's at the lowest possible rate. And this is where my frustration with my guy, Chris Wright, you know, in our debates, I don't hear him talking about base power or solar enough. And this administration needs to start thinking, hey, a minute, what could these costs? What do you think the actual cost is to them?”

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  6. “Very exciting. It's Alex to see people doing real hardware work and really solving these problems. You know, if we were sitting here 20 years ago in Silicon Valley, the idea that a startup would be venture funded and then be able to raise a billion dollars to do an infrastructure play, this really only exists because Elon decided to do Tesla and SpaceX and kind of break people's brains that you could actually do physical stuff in the real world or Uber and Airbnb said, hey, well, we can do things in the real world too. And now, you know, technologists don't feel limited to laptops and iPhones. This is like a hard installation problem. But boy, what a great insight they had that, hey, we don't need another source of energy. We need to.”

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  7. “Please stay out of the coin business. All right, Zach, thanks so much for coming on the pod. Continue success. If people want to learn more, where can they go? If they're in Texas and they want to get in the queue, I know you got a queue there. How do people get in the queue?”

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  8. “And what a great real estate play if you wanted to build a bunch of batteries and put them somewhere, you got to buy some land here. You just get a little 10 by 10 spot on people's existing properties and you get to distribute all this power. It's just super brilliant as a distributed network. It's very crypto-like in that way. Don't launch a coin though. Stay focused on what you got.”

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  9. “Resourceful in the face of the energy crisis. What have you seen around the world in your research of the most resourceful places where batteries and solar and independence are happening?”

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  10. “Exactly. No, I mean, I've talked to you about it before and I've been thinking about it. We have two wells, protein sources, two internet connectors, satellite and wired. You really start to think about how can I be independent and how can this home and this homestead not be reliant on anybody or anything? And that's where I think Americans are going to get to when it comes to energy. It's already happened. I don't know if you've done much research of what's going on in India or China where people are just buying batteries off of Amazon, basically and solar panels and then plugging their devices into it, not even like plugging, you know, like literally getting a small refrigerant, plugging into an anchor battery with and putting some solar in their backyard. People are becoming very, what's the word?”

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  11. “Yeah, I mean, it's since moving to Texas, much like in Brooklyn, you have to be resilient and you have to be a rugged individual. What I love about your business, Zach is that it hits on those notes. People here would like to be resilient. They would like to be independent of the grid or at least semi-independent of the grid. How long if power goes off would your average installation keep a home running or keep a home running if they don't use their washer and dryer, which are like the big ones, yeah, or turn their AC down a bit?”

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  14. “Win, win, win, right? Like the consumer who has the free battery or A great Hey, my feeling is AI companies are going to become severely. Not just for the possibility of jobs. Start looking at their electrical bills. Which is data center alley, and they say, Whoa,”

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  15. “So, if you were to put these on, say, I don't know, 20% of the single family homes here in Austin and the greater hill country area, you know, just around the town, what impact will that have on the grid for every 10 or 20% of homes? Like I'd say every 10% of homes you can convert because the grid here has challenges, right? So explain to us what this could do to the ecosystem because it does seem to me at some point with electricity prices spiking because of the use of data centers. It's been going up massively in some regions. Maybe this should be funded by the data centers and the companies that are trying to get more power. Has that come up?”

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  16. “Seem the way you're constructing these to go on the outside of suburban homes and not to rely on solar just to put them on the outside seems incredibly quick. I know when you get power walls put in the inside of a home, now you've got to put very heavy things on walls, studs. It's a bit complicated and it's a bit of work. Also, I suspect, but I don't know, are your units cheaper to produce than say the power wall because that is so elegant and thin and mounted. It has a certain elegance to it, but I would also think it comes with a bit of cost.”

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  17. “No, no. Elon's been saying this for 20 years, let's just use the sun. Okay, so the key to the business, this is just my outside observation is installing solar panels on a roof is expensive, time-consuming, damages the roof. It's just, I don't know, you're talking about taking a year. How long does it take to put those two little R2D2 units that look like an HVAC on the side of a building? What's the total installation time?”

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  18. “Those coal plants are extremely expensive to build. And batteries, it seems like we've been ramping up and they've been increasing their density and their affordability every year. So take us through the reality, if you will.”

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  19. “Not to make it at all political, but we have an administration that's been talking about clean, beautiful coal. You may have seen me getting into it with Chris Wright on some wall-in podcasts at different points in time. And some of these folks in the movement over there believe that just batteries are not sustainable, solar is not sustainable. We're just never going to be able to make enough batteries. But then I just looked at Tesla last quarter and they produced more battery power this year and three quarters than they did last year and four and it's ramping up. So is there a disconnect? Is this just, you know, maybe people talking their book or it's just insane to think that clean, beautiful coal, as clean and beautiful as it might be, kind of interesting to put those words around it. It doesn't make much sense to me. And just after my cursory research, it seems like.”

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  21. “To go a little bit into the batteries themselves, the cells, I'm assuming you're not making the cells themselves, you're assembling everything else around the cells. You source those cells from a Samsung, another manufacturer. So how does that work?”

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  22. “And I'll let you go next, Alex, but just explain Like the biggest arbitrage that could possibly happen, you know, here in Texas, you guys didn't warn me, but it gets a little hot in the summer. You had like maybe 20 days over 100 people's ACs are blowing. It's incredibly expensive, I think, for electricity at that time. And then maybe overnight it can go down 20, 30 degrees and people's AC use goes down dramatically. just on a, I don't know, cost per kilowatt or a cost per day for the average home. What does that look like? Is it 10x, 5x? What's the difference? No, I mean, it could be.”

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  23. “Got it. And for people who don't understand the business, instead of putting solar on your roof and a battery pack, you've come up with an interesting thesis, which was, hey, if you just put batteries in there and you load them up when electricity is cheap and then deploy it when energy is expensive, at least in our great state of Texas, that can be particularly effective. So explain that arbitrage, if you will, the peak cost of energy versus the trowel cost and how much it costs to put this into somebody's home.”

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  24. “That one FairSack. We were just here last year, and you guys were, I don't know, had a couple of dozen customers, I think. You were very nascent and then, wow, what happened in the last year that led to this huge investment?”

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  25. “Right. Yeah. The fact that you haven't gotten sick is great. Let's introduce our guest today. I'm going to major guests here, major guest with a major announcement.”

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  26. “These things are a different breed than your app, TikTok, you know, stealing your location or something like that. They can actually go do things in the real world. And here it is. Security researchers say G1 humanoid robots are secretly sending information to China. And yeah, what if these things go wrong is, I guess, the key.”

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