Louis Medina

Co-founder & CEO, Tether · 1 appearance on the record.

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Luis Medina Rivas co-founded Tether, a clean-tech startup using AI to coordinate electric vehicle charging patterns to support the power grid. An electrical engineer by background, he previously worked at GE Solar and Northvolt and was selected as a Future Energy Leader by the World Energy Council.

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2 predictions · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Medina: Ford F-150 Lightning backup power ignores electric grid coordination

“What you mentioned about the Ford F one 50, basically what they're doing is they're discharging their battery on their house, right? But they're not coordinating that with the grid. They're not actively participating on those markets.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:57 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Medina: Automakers lacking vehicle-to-grid tech will face massive competitive disadvantages

“All manufacturers are going to be V-IIG, like any car manufacturer in the future that doesn't have that is going to be at a significant competitive disadvantage compared to the ones that do.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:46 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Opinion

Medina: Grid fragmentation creates a massive moat for Tether's VPP software

“In the U S each grid has its own laws and its own regulations of how you operate and in Europe as well. So if you are a vehicle manufacturer, You would have to have software that knows where the vehicle is and changes the way you bid into the market and the wa…”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 10:37 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2035

Medina: Europe will see 130 million electric vehicles sold within ten years

“And with a hundred and thirty million electric vehicles being sold in Europe alone in the next 10 years, that's a hundred and thirty million potential batteries that could be used to reinforce a power grid, substitute fossil fuel power plants, And allow more r…”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:19 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Assertion Supported

Medina: Ford F-150 Lightning backup power ignores electric grid coordination

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:57 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Disclosure

Medina: Tether has a commercial deal in Sweden and is raising $1.5M

“We have a commercial agreement with a major EV charging company in Sweden, and so we're raising 1.5 million to get there.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 4:21 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Assertion Partly supported

Medina: Sweden's EV market is growing 120% year-over-year

“Sweden's electric vehicle market is a 120% year-on-year growth right now. It's at around forty-something percent of all vehicles being sold today are electric, and they're gonna going to have three million vehicles sold before 2030.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 5:36 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Assertion Supported

Medina: Techstars Berlin demands a European entity, blocking US investment

“So Techstars Berlin, they contacted us, and basically they're doing a program that is a vertical only for companies in the EV space, which is great, and it's in conjunction with an Audi accelerator. Now, here's the wrench in the gearbox. This is the only Techs…”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 26:29 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Disclosure

Medina agrees to convert Tether into a US Delaware C-Corp

“We have decided that we are gonna go do the Delaware C Corp.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 30:42 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Assertion Supported

Medina: A typical passenger car is parked 95% of the time

“So a typical car is parked for 95% of the time.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:11 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Disclosure

Medina: Tether is currently pre-product and pre-revenue

“Yes, so we're pre-product, pre-revenue, we're developing the software.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 7:52 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Disclosure

Medina: Tether built its foundation on just a $10,000 uncapped SAFE

“It's a safe, and it was like, 10 K, so it wasn't too much, but.”

Louis Medina Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 12:49 #102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid	Mar 4, 2025	13m

Louis Medina

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