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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