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The only other feature that wasn’t available on my review unit, which I badly wanted, is the LTE-A wireless WAN. It allows you to insert a sim card for data connection much like your smartphone. Unfortunately, you must check the box if you plan on using that feature. It’s not possible to retrofit the modem later.
The overall weight and dimensions of the ThinkPad X1 Carbon are some of the best, weighing in at merely 2.49 pounds and measuring in, at the thinnest point, at only 14.95mm. Finally, this is a laptop that you can use on your lap, comfortably. There it has replaced the Huawei MateBook X Pro, which until now has been my daily driver (mixed in with the outgoing ThinkPad X1 Carbon).
Gene Berdichevsky was one of the early team members at Tesla. Now he’s building his own unicorn startup, Sila Nanotechnologies, which is valued at over $1 billion. One which looks like it will fuel every way you travel from the road to being in the air.
Berdichevsky recently appeared as a guest on the Dealmakers Podcast. During his exclusive interview, he shared his journey, building his first solar car, and how he’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars for his own technology startup that is growing at an incredible pace.He was born on the Black Sea in Ukraine, spent time in St. Petersburg, Russia, and even lived north of the arctic circle for five years. All before landing with his family in Richmond, Virginia, and attending college in California.
Gene was fortunate to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, and see his father start his own small businesses. Both of his parents were software engineers and worked on nuclear submarines.So, the one thing he says he knew was, “I definitely wasn't going to be a software engineer.” He did enjoy math and science a lot. That led him to study mechanical engineering.Within his first year at Stanford, he got involved in their solar car project. Students would compete to build a solar-powered car and race it across the country, 2,300 miles, from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Gene’s team built the car chassis from scratch, built a carbon fiber body, and powered it with a battery with about the same strength as the toaster in your kitchen.That was it. He fell in love with energy, problem-solving and building, and was really energized by having really built something from the ground up.Mastering Energy
Berdichevsky went on to get a Master's in energy engineering from Stanford. There was really no such program in existence at the time. So, he put together his own curriculum. He dove into materials, semiconductor physics, quantum mechanics, and solar.Many people are already struggling with the decision to go to university. So, why go, and even create your own studies, when you can piece everything you want to know together online these days?
As with many of the other highly successful startup founders I’ve interviewed who have come out of Stanford, Gene found the network you gain access to very valuable. Some of those people still work for him at Sila today. He also credits the value of learning from your peers there.At the end of his junior year, Gene became the seventh Tesla employee as a tech lead for battery system architectural development.
It’s no secret that there were plenty of early challenges for Tesla. They started out literally supergluing laptop batteries together to make the battery pack.Then with safety the main concern was avoiding random failures. They happen in batteries. Even being rare, when you are using 10,000 batteries to run a single vehicle you really have to expect this to happen and preempt that.
Tesla grew from around 10 people when Berdichevsky started there, to around 300 when he left. About 30x in just four years. Tesla now has over 45,000 employees with a market cap of $40 billion.His big lesson from Tesla was that as a startup founder, you want to go after really big problems. Ironically, Gene says sometimes it is easier to solve a really big problem, than a smaller one. For a start, it enables you to attract incredible talent. It is also both incredibly rewarding and reduces your competition.
From Tesla, he saw that you need to be willing to do things the world doesn‘t think are possible. This requires a mindset and a culture that is self-reliance where you are willing to do a lot of things in house.From the day he walked into Tesla, Gene says his brain was already fixated on "How do I start my own company? How do I build something like this?" He had even previously written a business plan for making electric cars in the U.S. market in his junior year at Stanford.

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