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Zach Dell
Zach Dell is the co-founder and CEO of Base Power, an Austin battery-and-electricity company he started in 2023 with former SpaceX and Anduril manufacturing leader Justin Lopas. Base sells homeowners a leased backup battery for a one-time $695 plus a $19 monthly membership and retail electricity, then knits those household batteries into a distributed grid that charges on cheap overnight power and discharges at peak. In under three years the company raised a $1 billion Series C at a roughly $4 billion valuation and, by mid-2026, was in talks to raise again near a $12 billion valuation. The son of Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell, Zach traces his energy obsession to college experiments that included trying to lease a Hawaiian lava field for solar and building anaerobic digesters in India.
Tim Latimer
Tim Latimer is the co-founder and CEO of Fervo Energy, the company that took horizontal drilling and fiber optic sensing out of the shale fields and pointed them straight down into hot rock. A former oil-and-gas drilling engineer who grew up next to the last coal plant built in America, he left the industry, talked his way into Stanford, met a geothermal PhD named Jack Norbeck, and bet that geothermal could become 24/7 carbon-free power at utility scale. Fervo has since raised over a billion dollars, broken drilling records once thought decades away, signed Google as a customer, and gone public on the Nasdaq in 2026 while building Cape Station, the world's largest next-generation geothermal project.