Category Visionaries Josh Snowhorn, CEO of Quantum Loophole: $200 Million Raised to Build the Backbone Infrastructure of a World Built on Data
In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Josh Snowhorn, CEO of Quantum Loophole, a data center developer that’s raised over $200 Million in funding, about why laying the groundwork for building the critical data infrastructure driving our data economy puts them in a category without competition, and with great potential for growth into the future. Making sure the land, power, water, and other accouterments for building a data center are all in place ahead of time, Quantum Loophole gets things up and running at a scale and speed unrivaled in the industry.
We also speak about Josh’s 24 years in the technology sector, moving between a string of early tech companies and eventually landing in the data center development space, how a lucky choice to start remotely helped Quantum Loophole be better prepared for the coming covid pandemic, the transformation of the tech sector by learning-through-doing, and what it’s like to be in a market category without any competition.
Topics Discussed:
- Josh’s quarter century in the tech sector, what he’s learned and how trial by fire became his established strategy
- How founding a remote firm pre-pandemic helped prepare Quantum Loophole for a turbulent future
- Why the data center groundwork model finds such traction with their clients, and how Josh and his team developed the expertise to make it work
- What big data companies need to get their infrastructure up and running, and how a streamlined process means real added value
- What it’s like for Quantum Loophole to exist in a marketplace with no competition
- Why Josh and his team want nothing to do with the coin mining industry, and why they prefer to stick to industries without such dramatic price fluctuations