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Building @Basepowerco. Formerly @ThriveCapital @Blackstone. Grateful

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Zach Dell is the founder of Base (Basepowerco), a mission-driven startup rebuilding American power at scale after stints at Thrive Capital and Blackstone. He speaks in fundraising milestones and manufacturing blueprints, proud, grateful, and relentlessly focused on talent and impact.

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You’ve raised a billion dollars and built a factory, but your tweets still sound like the company newsletter’s LinkedIn cousin, grateful, eloquent, and seventeen steps removed from the garage where things actually get soldered. Tweet a prototype photo before the marketing team writes the press release, Zach.

Leading Base from concept to a $1B Series C and breaking ground on the company’s first manufacturing site in Austin, convincing top-tier investors (Addition, a16z, Lightspeed, Thrive, and more) to back a mission to put batteries in every home.

To build the next great American power company that puts reliable, modern energy infrastructure into homes and communities, accelerating human progress by making power accessible, resilient, and domestically manufactured.

Capital is powerful but people are the limiter: hire builders, operators, and engineers. Power infrastructure is foundational to progress and must be rebuilt with American manufacturing and talent. Transparency, gratitude, and public-minded partnerships drive durable impact.

Exceptional operator-investor credibility and network (big-name backers), strong storytelling for fundraising and recruitment, rapid ability to scale from idea to factory, and an authentic mission orientation that attracts partners and talent.

Can read like a polished press release, rare posting cadence and high-level messaging can feel distant to everyday engineers and creators. Reliant on hiring the right talent (the very constraint he highlights), and may under-share gritty, technical progress that builds grassroots trust.

Post more frequent, informal content: behind-the-scenes manufacturing clips, engineer spotlights, technical threads about battery design and supply chain, and candid hiring threads pinned to the profile. Host periodic AMAs or Twitter Spaces with engineers and operators, reply to comments to build community, and use short video + visuals to convert press-release energy into daily engagement. Pin a clear hiring thread and amplify employees’ voices to turn hires into advocates.

Fun fact: Zach’s Series C announcement tweet crossed roughly 1.27M views, and he helped lead Base from idea to a $1B Series C in just a few years. He has ~19.1k followers, follows ~1k people, and has shared only ~251 tweets, selective but high-impact.

Top tweets of Zach Dell

Incredibly proud of @MichaelDell and @SusanDell and the example they continue to set. Grateful for their generous investment into our country's future and the hope this will create for so many. Excited to see the impact this gift unlocks for communities everywhere.

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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.

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Today, we announced a $200M round led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with participation from existing investors @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap. Addition founder Lee Fixel will join our board alongside Antonio Gracias of Valor.

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Super proud of @MichaelDell and @altcap leading the charge on Invest America Long USA đŸ‡ș🇾

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I am excited to publicly launch @basepowerco with my co-founder @JLopas and the rest of our team. We started Base to make power more affordable and reliable, by building the foundation for the energy transition - starting with distributed battery storage basepowercompany.com

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Fun to join @SquawkCNBC this morning to talk about what we are building at @basepowerco

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We are growing our team at @basepowerco. If you want to work on hard problems with a close knit, fast moving, and hard working team - apply below.

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Most engaged tweets of Zach Dell

Incredibly proud of @MichaelDell and @SusanDell and the example they continue to set. Grateful for their generous investment into our country's future and the hope this will create for so many. Excited to see the impact this gift unlocks for communities everywhere.

602k

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.

1M

Today, we announced a $200M round led by Addition, @a16z, @lightspeedvp, and Valor, with participation from existing investors @ThriveCapital, Altimeter, Trust Ventures, and @terraincap. Addition founder Lee Fixel will join our board alongside Antonio Gracias of Valor.

542k

I am excited to publicly launch @basepowerco with my co-founder @JLopas and the rest of our team. We started Base to make power more affordable and reliable, by building the foundation for the energy transition - starting with distributed battery storage basepowercompany.com

170k

Super proud of @MichaelDell and @altcap leading the charge on Invest America Long USA đŸ‡ș🇾

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Fun to join @SquawkCNBC this morning to talk about what we are building at @basepowerco

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We are growing our team at @basepowerco. If you want to work on hard problems with a close knit, fast moving, and hard working team - apply below.

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

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Comprehensive deep dive from @packyM . For those looking to learn more about our team, mission, vision, and strategy - this is the piece to read.

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