Joshua Riedy, CEO and Founder of Thread: $20 Million Raised to Power the Future of Energy Grid Maintenance

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Joshua Riedy, CEO and Founder of Thread, an autonomous inspection platform that's raised roughly $20 Million in funding.

Topics Discussed: 

• Joshua’s background, meeting his Thread co-founders while creating software for FedEx, and getting funded by Microsoft’s Brad Smith


• The tech ecosystem in North Dakota, where Joshua is from and operates


• Why The Revenant is a book that influenced and inspired Joshua


• The origin story of Thread, and how it empowers front-line workers to diagnose problems in the energy grid infrastructure in a safer and more efficient way


• Getting a first customer that will only pay when you prove yourself, and working with celebrity investors 

Favorite book: 

The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge