Dell: Base Power's Leadership Team Is Company's First Five Hires
Zach Dell · Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Oct 8, 2025 · at 9:19
Base Power CEO Zach Dell discusses how the company built its leadership team from its earliest hands-on engineers and operators.
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“If you look at our leadership team, so to speak it's basically the first five people at the company. And so these were the only ICs, right? They weren't like hired managers to go build teams to do the work. Like these people did the work, right?”
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