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“I think we could be bigger than Shell.”

“So any energy company that's claiming their harm sent renewables is a complete lie. Right. They're simply buying renewable certificates, right, to claim the harm sent renewables, and it's completely false.”

“We increase our revenue with Tenex every year since inception. First year was two million pounds, second year was 20, and then this year we're gonna end at over 200 pounds.”

“Our threshold is we will hire anything above a beat. So if you get straight Bs, you'll still get an offer, but the offer will be much lower, and it could be below what you're making today.”

“So the company is doing over four hundred million revenue, annualized revenue,”

“I think of a trillion dollar company.”

“There's actually, A very strong correlation between how much energy you use per capita and quality of life.”

“So if you look at energy consumption per capita in the last 25 years, UK has dropped 25%. In the US, it's been flat. In China, in the same period of time, it's gone up by seven times.”

“If you speak to any of the, you know, infra capital providers they want to deploy a lot of capital to building infrastructure. So the problem is not capital. The problem is it's very, very hard to build.”

“In China, they deploy more solar than the all Western economies combined.”

“So as a company, we don't actually use any comp bands. We simply look at the grades and the higher the grade, the higher our bid.”

“Yeah, we've never given a head of position to anyone we've hired. We've only given to it based, based on performance.”

“Something around there. But we'll, we'll, we'll still shoot for 10. I think we can.”

“If we ever list, I think it would be the US, yeah. I personally don't see a need to. There's a lot of liquidity in the private markets And obviously there's additional overhead being a listed company. Like, so far, like the only, like, only, only reason I see …”

“Level-Thirty-Nine is, yeah, for those who don't know, it's basically a giant, yeah, a startup co-working space with maybe over 200 startups, and Revolut was the only team that worked past seven p.m. On the weekday. So after seven p.m., the whole floor is dead.…”

“The Americans use, you know, almost eight times more energy than Europeans and look at the quality of life.”

“So, like, if you look at the, what the Brits and Europeans pay in terms of, you know, cost per kilowatt, it's roughly 25 to 30 dollar cents. And the US is 10 to 15 dollar cents. In China, it's eight dollar cents.”

“They've laid more cables of grid than all Western economies combined.”

“So first of all, it's probably the only place in London where you can keep expanding offices, right? So you can keep upgrading office without incurring a big penalty in your lease.”

“So we found a single wind turbine in north of Scotland that the seller is willing to sell for 750 K. We found a license for 75 K. We convinced the former CEO of Ofgem to become an advisor with just equity and no cash. And my co-founder Charles became a qualifi…”

“Yeah, there's some truth to that, yeah.”

“I think what would be, we'd love to build a world where You know, power is so cheap and abundant that any builder, you know, AI or otherwise, don't even think about power anymore, and they can just build more, and economies start growing again as a result. Tha…”

“During the COVID lockdowns the interchange revenue, so, you know, revenue from people spending on cards, especially abroad, went basically near zero, right? However there was a lot of stimulus checks, right? From the COVID times and the stock market was boomin…”

“So although our whole backend is in Python we will hire any backend developer even if they know nothing about Python.”

“I applied and Nick replied within five minutes.”

“So I came for an interview, and he asked me a bunch of physics questions, like, you know, I didn't realize I was applying for a physics job. And he offered me a role, you know, right after the interview.”