Kevin Gast
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@kgast99
CEO of America's Next Water Company @vvaterglobal | Time Best Invention Award & CES Best of Innovation Award | Inc. Best in Business & World Future Award
Deep Tech Week is now two years old! In that time we've brought together 26,316 people into 253 events, 2,492 founders and 1,341 investors and 402 speakers. In the next 5 months we'll be expanding to 5 more cities: Seattle, Berlin, Austin, Washington DC, and Kiev. a recap:
xAI is committed to building a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis. This plant will protect billions of gallons of water each year. The team is currently prioritizing other more immediate projects at the site but our plans to build the water plant have not changed.
The Texas Triangle is also about 4.5x the size of Taiwan. The Greater Austin Area alone is about 1/3 the size of Taiwan. As long as Texas can manage its water availability issues, it will become a semiconductor capital.
What do billionaires optimise for when hiring? @adcock_brett founder of Figure AI discussed what he looks for in a hire on the WTF Online Podcast: "I think the conventional wisdom is to go out and hire somebody really experienced, that makes you feel really good, from a really good background, at a successful company. And I found that playbook is just complete crap. Throw that right out the door. Even now, Figure has gotten to a point where we have these big shots knocking on our door wanting to come work here, from big companies and wherever else. But it's just not the right approach. If you look at every generational company, it's not like they went out and picked the VP here and the VP here and the VP here and put it together. It's like the opposite of what Meta is doing right now. Look at Meta's superintelligence lab. It's like putting 15 Tom Bradys together and making that work. It's just immediately going to collapse. It's not going to work. My view is you just need to find people that really care. That's the core axiom of what I look for in talent."
Thanks Elon. Extraordinary event tonight. Your vision is powerful and we are proud of all you do in Texas.
It’s becoming abundantly clear that America’s Shenzhen will be here.
Absolutely explosive story coming tomorrow. Corpus Christi is plummeting towards imminent economic ruin.
