Overseeing Hardware 3 at Tesla during Model 3 production hell

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Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

thank you so much for your time, for being here today with us. We really appreciate it.

Casey Spencer
Casey Spencer· Voxel Energy

Thank you, no problem. I mean, it's a nice break from fundraising, honestly. ⁓ That's been intense.

Nihal Kurth
Nihal Kurth

Hahaha Yeah, I hear that especially March, right? Like every time I'm a conversation, that is the days I do fundraise heavily. we? Okay. Fingers crossed for that. How about Kezi, you introduce yourself for the ones who haven't met you yet. As a human being first, afterwards we will go to Voxel energy as much as you like anyways.

Casey Spencer
Casey Spencer· Voxel Energy

Mm-hmm. Sure. Yeah, I don't know if I have an independent identity anymore. I don't know if I still qualify as a human being. I am a unit that ingests pizza and produces venture capital. No, but I'm Casey Spencer. I am a technologist, I guess. You know, I've been an engineer. I've been a radio host. I've won hackathons. I've been a project manager. I was project manager on Tesla Infotainment Autopilot where I was responsible for overseeing the development of Hardware 3. This was during like the Model 3 production hell and so there were days where Elon would email the engineering org saying if you aren't in Fremont somehow building cars you're fired. So there were days I would go to Fremont and

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