Denver

“The founder was a fine dining chef in Denver, right? He wanted to open a fine dining restaurant, and so he opened Chipotle as a stepping stone saying, I'll open this thing, I'll make some money here, and then I can open my fine dining restaurant. So actually w…”

“A lot of people go into a kitchen and then move away to San Francisco, LA, Denver, Miami, and we had such roots in the kitchen with supply that people ended up taking us with them when they moved. So we did move from kitchen to kitchen, you know, and it went, …”

“Locations that I like to target are referred to as like tier two cities or tier three cities. So don't think about like Los Angeles or New York or, you know, Chicago or San Diego or something like that. I live in Charlotte. There's a ton of opportunity here. T…”

“The first three and a half megawatt hour unit of capacity is going into the grid right now, and in Denver, it's going to be the largest outside of China. All that's exciting, but what I'm really excited about is that it's the first passively completely passive…”

“Colorado, Denver in particular, Denver, Boulder has really become you know, arguably like the aerospace hub in the US.”

“Ever since 2008, it's kind of been this thesis that there's a more capital efficient, scrappy, kind of differently built entrepreneur between Phoenix and Bozeman, Salt Lake and Denver, kind of in that corridor.”

“I went and talked to a couple of venture capitalists in Denver where I was living about it. And You know, ask them, hey, what do you think about this? You know, what can we do with this? Or, you know, is this something that is fundable? And they both told me t…”

“When cities like Austin or San Francisco or Denver voted on, say, camping bans, overwhelmingly passed in some of these most liberal cities in America.”

“We work with our people team and they have different cities and they peg them based off of a It's all cost of living related. And so you mentioned if there is an AE in San Francisco with a 250,000 dollar comp band, what we do is if we're hiring them in Denver,…”

“When people overperform, an extra 10% is 10% on each of those. So if somebody gets an accelerator at the 250,000, they may make two 75, and in Denver they make two two 20. So it's 10% of what your salary is and not necessarily the hard dollar value. So the per…”

“So we have 28 people worldwide. So, and we're remote first. So there are four five of us here in Denver, but then everybody else is spread around the globe.”

“Whole Foods opened their first store in Denver. At exactly the same time, and I started seeing the building go up in the, in, in the neighborhood I grew up in, actually, and I thought, huh, I'm gonna get a job with them. I'm gonna work in their nutrition depar…”

“So you just have to think about it as a different funnel. So I think in San Francisco, the funnel is very, very wide, but your chance at winning at the bottom of the funnel when you're an early stage company is incredibly hard when you're competing with Google…”

“We're about 40. Nathan Latka: 40 people all based there in Denver? Nathan Latka: No. Kyle Sherman: So we have an office in San Francisco and Los Angeles. and then our headquarters is in Denver.”

“Jeff designed all of our initial equipment, so that saved a lot of money. We had a dairy manufacturer in Denver fabricate it for us.”

“Oh, I was profitable in the first few months.”