Ilya Rekhter has built one of the first sustainable Bitcoin mining companies in the world — Megawatt, which is headquartered in central Indiana. 

Prior to starting Megawatt, Ilya was the Co-Founder and CEO of DoubleMap, which was acquired by Ford Motor Company in 2019. What started out as a college project scaled to one of the 100 fastest growing companies in America – doing all of this without taking a dollar of outside funding.

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In our conversation with Ilya, we talk about:

• His family history and immigration to America from the Soviet Union
• Scrappy startup stories that will inspire you
• How to bootstrap a software business all the way to a successful exit 

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Companies and organizations:

• Megawatt
• DoubleMap
• Ford Motor Company
• University of Washington in Seattle
• University of Michigan
• Purdue
• Eli Lilly
• Kelley School of Business
• Indiana University
• Zipcar
• Zimride 
• Georgetown University
• Inc 5000 list
• Uber
• Netflix
• IBJ
• Yats Cajun Creole
• Dats Cajun
• Nick’s English Hut
• Malomo 

People:

• Ilya Rekhter
• David Gordon
• James Bond
• Peter SerVaas 
• Reid Young
• Jack McCarthy
• Eric Jiang 
• Yaw Aning
• Anthony Smith
• Christopher (Toph) Day

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