Highlights
- Grew revenue 250%, signed multiple publicly traded companies and the largest energy producers in the world
- More than doubled number of customers
- Anuj Saigal and Luca Marturana joined full time after being part-time for the past year! Welcomed Wendell Beane to the team as a founding engineer, and Shivam Agarwal as Growth & Operations Manager intern.
- First Team onsite in SF in October, experiencing a warm and full office
- Launched Data Centers on YC
- Google AI for Energy accelerator + demo day
- Stayed close to my identity as an engineer. Built features, fixed bugs and continued running technical phone screens and onsites
- Spark hosted its first industry dinner during SF Climate Week
- Artifacts
- Learned to ride a bike (finally)
- Cities: San Francisco, New York, Boston, New Jersey, Washington DC, Lafayette, Phoenix, Prague, Philadelphia, Black Rock City, Las Vegas, Denver, Shanghai, Wenzhou
- Started Duolingo Chess (185 day streak as of 2026-01-03)
- 200th Barry’s Bootcamp class
- 13 Books. Favorites: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, The NVIDIA Way, Sonho Grande
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Julia Wu
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