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Reinhardt: Charm's capex per ton is under half of state-of-the-art pyrolysis plants
“If we look at the capex, for example, of our system today on a, Per dollars capex per ton basis, and compare it to, say, like, state-of-the-art pyrolysis facilities, we are already less than half of that cost on, on a dollar per capex basis, and that will decl…”
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson spent 18 months convincing Reinhardt to sell
“No, you know, it took Jeff about 18 months to convince me that it was the right thing to do.”
Charm Industrial is now the world's largest carbon removal operator
“I helped start a company called Charm Industrial that is actually now the world's largest carbon removal operator, and so I hope we can get it to a gigaton of CO₂ per year kind of scale.”
Reinhardt predicts that third-party data brokering will eventually die out
“There are plenty of other companies out there that, that do stuff like that. It's gonna go away and die eventually.”
Codecademy launched three days before YC Demo Day after 12 pivots
“They started and killed, like, 12 ideas over the course of Y Combinator, and then three days before Demo Day launched Codecademy, and got to 300 and something thousand signups in the 72 hours before they presented at Demo Day.”
Segment's revenue grew from $2.5M to $10M after launching its Redshift connector
“We'd grown revenue from zero to two and a half million in the first year. And then we launched this Redshift connector and the next year went from two and a half to 10.”
Reinhardt: US corn generates roughly 400 megatons of unused stover annually
“There's about 90, ninety-five million acres of corn grown in the US every year. There's order magnitude four dry tons of stover per year on each of those on each of those acres, and so, you know, you're, Just on corn stover, you're looking at 400 megatons of a…”
Reinhardt: Abengoa Hugoton failed due to $120/ton biomass transport costs
“Abingoa Hugotin was a huge cellulosic ethanol plant that failed in Western Kansas because they were trans, transporting their biomass, 50 to a hundred miles. They expected to pay maybe 60 dollars a ton. They found, in fact, that they were paying, like, north o…”
Segment's Hacker News launch drove thousands of GitHub stars and signups
“We just went straight to the top of Hacker News, got hundreds of upvotes, thousands of stars on GitHub, thousands of email signups.”
Reinhardt: Almost no one actually uses Segment's open-source version
“So almost no one actually uses the open source version.”
Reinhardt: Investors refused Segment's offer to return $600K in seed funding
“Well, we had just gotten wires for these checks, for this money, like literally a week before, right? So we called back all the investors, And we were like, well, it turns out this is a terrible idea. So what do you want us to do with the money? And almost all…”
Segment spent a year building a web analytics tool without getting customers
“We spent about a year building the infrastructure necessary to do the analytics and really we're not succeeding in getting any customers during that time frame.”
Segment processed hundreds of thousands of user actions per second in 2018
“I think now we're processing, you know, hundreds of thousands of user actions per second.”
Segment open-sources client SDKs but keeps its core data pipeline proprietary
“Our JavaScript library is open source, our iOS SDK is open source, our Android SDK is open source, so you can sort of collect data from anywhere, and those collection libraries are open source, but the sort of core infrastructure pipeline is, is not.”
Segment enables automated user data deletion across connected third-party tools
“So it's actually now a feature of segment that we can go to those 20 systems and delete whatever user is requesting it. And clean up that record across all those different systems.”
Reinhardt: Wildfire thinning wood biomass often has 50% water content
“Wood can easily be 50% water if it's young growth and, you know, hasn't aged for a year post cutting. So when you look at like wildfire thinnings, for example oftentimes we get wood that's in the 50% range. And there, yeah, it sucks, because half of what you'r…”
Segment launched as an open-source library on Hacker News to viral success
“At the very beginning, we actually launched as an open source library on Hacker News. And it took off there, blew up basically overnight.”