Austin Gaskamp

building America’s Power Company @basepowerco

[Justin Lopas @JLopas]

In the span of ~3 months, the team @basepowerco has built out operational tools that replace or avoid the purchase of an enormous amount of SaaS.

Token costs might actually equal the cost of buying the SaaS, but cost isn't the point.

It's the fact that the tools are perfectly tailored to our operations, infinitely customizeable going forward, and tied into our data.

A sampling:
- Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Manufacturing Execution System
- CRM for B2B sales
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Sales & Operations Planning tool
- Labor crew management, forecasting, and associated vehicles tool
- Policy objectives and stakeholders tracker
- Countless dashboards for each team

The impact that AI has had on our business is incredible.

[Justin Lopas @JLopas]

If you want to get anything big done, you need to use those two extra days at the end of the week.

[Nick Narain @nick_narain]

Ran our first Growth hackathon last Friday night. Simple goal: build something that makes you better at your job.

In 90 minutes, everyone shipped an MVP. Ask anyone there - they'll tell you they feel way more empowered to create the things they always wished for.

What a time to be building @basepowerco

Shoutout to @j_foster_j and @AustinGaskamp for helping me TA🫡

[JP Reilly @fatjapes]

Clear.

https://t.co/YoA9zrYpXd

[Zach Dell @ZachBDell]

Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead.

Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us.

Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking.

At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America.

Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country.

Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company.

The old system is breaking. Come build the new one.

Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.

[Willem @vanlancker]

While the film grain and music are great, the number of people in this ad not looking at screens is key to its resonance...

Amid a sea of AI companies showing people disintermediating real life with chatbots or demonstrating the frightful scale of some superintelligence, Claude reveals mechanics, artists, and researchers. Hands dirty, minds engaged, screens secondary.

The message of "keep thinking" is a call to hold onto personal humanity. Tale as old as time: sell the aspiration, not the product.

[Base Power @basepowerco]

America’s Team kicks off tonight. And so does our first big TV ad in Dallas. Watch it here first:

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

⚾️ @basepowerco 🔋🇺🇸

[Zach Dell @ZachBDell]

Base is now available in all of DFW.

We are excited to continue our growth across Texas with this expansion. More to come soon on other new markets.

Affordable & reliable power available now, all over the Metroplex.

[Justin Lopas @JLopas]

We track tons and tons of metrics.

This is the number you see when you first walk in the front door of the office @basepowerco

This one - and its rate of change - matters the most.

[Zach Dell @ZachBDell]

Everything is bigger…

[Justin Lopas @JLopas]

Excellent episode where @ZachBDell breaks down the electric grid. @patrick_oshag as always is an excellent interviewer. Must-listen.

https://t.co/x0VYVvhE1w

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Unreal

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

There's a new battery record in Texas. Last night was the first time batteries discharged over 6,000 megawatts of power to the ERCOT grid.

Solar record Thursday. Battery record Friday.

No conservation alerts, no grid emergencies. #txlege #txenergy

[Zach Dell @ZachBDell]

We @basepowerco are excited to announce the 2nd partnership in our growing Base for Utilities business with @GVECsocial

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Base Power @basepowerco]

The IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting is coming to Austin. We’re hosting an event at Base HQ on July 28 from 6–9 p.m.

Tour our hardware lab, meet the team, and see what we’re building at Base Power.

We’ll have small bites, wine, and beer.

Space is limited—RSVP to join: https://t.co/LBhyVM7iqz

*Free to attend. Not an IEEE-endorsed event.

@ieee_pes

[@jason @Jason]

Economist: The solar+battery model is working.

California gets 75% of its power from solar midday.

Batteries now kick in for 30% at night.

Battery capacity jumped 32x since 2018.

[ICON @ICON3DTech]

3D printing student housing for @TAMU AgriLife Research Center driving the future of agriculture in Texas. https://t.co/WFUBkNAwyC

[Austin Gaskamp @AustinGaskamp]

@paulswaney3 Thanks!