“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center.”
Source→“Our very first data center application was in 2013 when eBay, which used to be eBay and PayPal together... PayPal's entire business is that data center because it's all about transactions... They did not have power in Utah, and they needed power.”
Source→“We built this one-off, two-off of the first Bloom boxes that are out there working at Google, other places doing very well.”
Source→“We power Home Depots and Costcos and Walmarts. We power college campuses.”
Source→“Solid oxide fuel cell power generation company, founded 2001. Provides modular, distributed, solid-state electricity generation purpose-built for digital infrastructure. $2B revenue in 2025, $20B backlog, manufacturing capacity scaling from 1GW to 2GW+ this year.”
Source→“He's a very sharp, deep-thinking individual. I think he's got some tremendous ideas of where things are. We obviously agree with his thesis on Bloom.”
Source→“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center. It puts out a Bloom box powering the data center, the waste heat providing the cooling for the data center, and it being connected to nothing else. For me, the period between 2001 and now, the 25 years, was never a question of if. It was a question of when and how soon.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.