Thank you for joining me today on Let's Get Digital.
I am glad you're here.
We have another great show for you.
I have with me today Jeremy Pease.
He is the CEO of High Velocity.
Thanks for coming on the show, Jeremy.
Thanks for having me, Kerry.
Excited to talk to you today.
Yes, I am too.
I am too.
So I met you a few weeks ago at the, in Vegas at the infrastructure summit, structure research and just was super impressed with everything you were doing.
So I am, first of all, I'm excited to hear about your, your history, your past.
How did you get to, to high velocity and why high velocity?
Yeah, absolutely.
uh
It's been an interesting journey.
uh As I've said a couple of times along the way, I'm not sure that I would suggest it for everybody.
It's not the traditional path.
ah I did not go to college right out of school.
uh I started working in the corporate world at 19 years old and, uh you know, was fortunate enough to be in a household where we had technology around, we had technology
available.
um And so it's always something that I was passionate about and that I enjoyed.
So I started programming.
uh
um You know at 19 years old by 21.
I was doing that at Microsoft um And and just kind of built a technology career from there, but went from programming networking um Working IT recruiting for a while um Then
did project management large government contracts um And then you know really went into the management path started to really manage development teams then managed infrastructure
teams uh And and eventually I wound up in the data
center space almost 12 years ago.
um And as I usually say, coming to the dark side.
um And so it was, it was an interesting journey to say the least, to get into the data center space.
And then since then, um you know, kind of went up the operational route, customer support uh management on that side, um managing operations all the way through the stack, becoming
a COO.
And I thought that was going to be the end for me.
thought COO was eventually where I wanted to be, where I wanted to stay.
um And then I became a COO and I go, man, I still don't have the impact on the organization I want to have.
And that's when I finally decided CEO was the next progression for me and fortunate enough to get that opportunity just over three years ago here at High Velocity.
And I really chose High Velocity as my um entry into that CEO world.
because it was very aligned with where the company was going in terms of product, technology, platform, care for the customer base while building automation.
And so I've been really happy to be here.
We've made some great acquisitions over the years and put together a business that I'm really, really proud to be a part of.
So who is high velocity?
High Velocity is a cloud bare metal retail co-location provider that really specializes more in edge based technologies.
So when we think about it, location geography and low latency connectivity is absolutely important to us.
Absolutely.
I'm so sorry.
I have an echo.
And I don't want that.
Can you hear my echo?
OK, I can hear it.
So here's what we're going to do.
And I'm so sorry to do this.