1 00:00:00,866 --> 00:00:03,509 Thank you for joining me today on Let's Get Digital. 2 00:00:03,509 --> 00:00:04,770 I am glad you're here. 3 00:00:04,770 --> 00:00:06,993 We have another great show for you. 4 00:00:06,993 --> 00:00:09,416 I have with me today Jeremy Pease. 5 00:00:09,416 --> 00:00:12,539 He is the CEO of High Velocity. 6 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,002 Thanks for coming on the show, Jeremy. 7 00:00:16,336 --> 00:00:17,340 Thanks for having me, Kerry. 8 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:18,861 Excited to talk to you today. 9 00:00:18,861 --> 00:00:20,322 Yes, I am too. 10 00:00:20,322 --> 00:00:21,282 I am too. 11 00:00:21,282 --> 00:00:32,382 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. 12 00:00:32,422 --> 00:00:38,842 So I am, first of all, I'm excited to hear about your, your history, your past. 13 00:00:38,842 --> 00:00:42,822 How did you get to, to high velocity and why high velocity? 14 00:00:44,304 --> 00:00:45,185 Yeah, absolutely. 15 00:00:45,185 --> 00:00:46,082 uh 16 00:00:46,082 --> 00:00:47,403 It's been an interesting journey. 17 00:00:47,403 --> 00:00:53,035 uh As I've said a couple of times along the way, I'm not sure that I would suggest it for everybody. 18 00:00:53,035 --> 00:00:54,866 It's not the traditional path. 19 00:00:54,866 --> 00:00:57,948 ah I did not go to college right out of school. 20 00:00:57,948 --> 00:01:08,242 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 21 00:01:08,242 --> 00:01:08,853 available. 22 00:01:08,853 --> 00:01:13,555 um And so it's always something that I was passionate about and that I enjoyed. 23 00:01:13,555 --> 00:01:15,416 So I started programming. 24 00:01:15,416 --> 00:01:15,816 uh 25 00:01:15,816 --> 00:01:18,687 um You know at 19 years old by 21. 26 00:01:18,687 --> 00:01:32,097 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 27 00:01:32,097 --> 00:01:42,114 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 28 00:01:42,114 --> 00:01:45,736 teams uh And and eventually I wound up in the data 29 00:01:45,736 --> 00:01:47,977 center space almost 12 years ago. 30 00:01:47,977 --> 00:01:52,100 um And as I usually say, coming to the dark side. 31 00:01:52,100 --> 00:01:58,384 um And so it was, it was an interesting journey to say the least, to get into the data center space. 32 00:01:58,384 --> 00:02:09,122 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 33 00:02:09,122 --> 00:02:09,912 a COO. 34 00:02:09,912 --> 00:02:11,974 And I thought that was going to be the end for me. 35 00:02:11,974 --> 00:02:15,656 thought COO was eventually where I wanted to be, where I wanted to stay. 36 00:02:15,656 --> 00:02:21,963 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. 37 00:02:21,963 --> 00:02:31,452 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. 38 00:02:31,452 --> 00:02:37,444 And I really chose High Velocity as my um entry into that CEO world. 39 00:02:37,444 --> 00:02:46,781 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. 40 00:02:46,781 --> 00:02:49,414 And so I've been really happy to be here. 41 00:02:49,414 --> 00:02:56,068 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. 42 00:02:56,568 --> 00:02:58,420 So who is high velocity? 43 00:02:59,814 --> 00:03:08,604 High Velocity is a cloud bare metal retail co-location provider that really specializes more in edge based technologies. 44 00:03:08,604 --> 00:03:16,152 So when we think about it, location geography and low latency connectivity is absolutely important to us. 45 00:03:17,895 --> 00:03:18,667 Absolutely. 46 00:03:18,667 --> 00:03:20,049 I'm so sorry. 47 00:03:20,049 --> 00:03:21,529 I have an echo. 48 00:03:22,431 --> 00:03:24,072 And I don't want that. 49 00:03:24,793 --> 00:03:25,824 Can you hear my echo? 50 00:03:25,824 --> 00:03:29,017 OK, I can hear it. 51 00:03:29,017 --> 00:03:30,158 So here's what we're going to do. 52 00:03:30,158 --> 00:03:32,180 And I'm so sorry to do this.