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EPISODE · Dec 5, 2023 · 28 MIN

Joshua Riedy, CEO and Founder of Thread: $20 Million Raised to Power the Future of Energy Grid Maintenance

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In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Joshua Riedy, CEO and Founder of Thread, an autonomous inspection platform that's raised roughly $20 Million in funding. Topics Discussed:  Joshua’s background, meeting his Thread co-founders while creating software for FedEx, and getting funded by Microsoft’s Brad Smith The tech ecosystem in North Dakota, where Joshua is from and operates Why The Revenant is a book that influenced and inspired Joshua The origin story of Thread, and how it empowers front-line workers to diagnose problems in the energy grid infrastructure in a safer and more efficient way Getting a first customer that will only pay when you prove yourself, and working with celebrity investors  Favorite book:  The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge

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