Remi

Doing hard things under real constraints is where the best work happens—and there’s no better story to help drive that point home than the Apollo 13 mission-turned-crisis. No playbook. No margin for error. Just people who refused to give up. Sounds a lot like building a startup. 🎙 Doug Barnett, CEO 🎥 Full video in comments

Speed vs. quality. The debate every builder, founder, and product team runs into. We have strong opinions. (Strong enough to make a video about it with our CTO Brant Choate.) If you’re in the trenches building, this one’s for you.👇 🎥 Full video in the comments

Some fun news: Pelion Venture Partners is excited to announce fund 8, a $500m venture fund. We have already made several investments out of fund 8, in companies like Remi, Kapital, Jump - Advisor AI, Strider Technologies, and several others. Over the past few funds, about 50% of our investments have been in Utah companies, and we expect that trend will continue in fund 8. Utah has a massive opportunity to become a tier-1 tech ecosystem, and Pelion is excited to support it. onward!

Life After Series A: What Changed? 1️⃣ Who We Hire: Our team is evolving. Post-Series A, we’re hiring more specialists than generalists, bringing in expertise to scale. 2️⃣ Handling Complexity: With growth comes increased complexity, we’re adjusting org/team structures to give us the right shape for sustained growth. 3️⃣ The Need for Speed: Speed over perfection is still absolutely critical as we scale—rapid iteration is how we maintain momentum. 💡 In this episode of Rise Over Run, CEO Doug Barnett and CTO Brant Choate share stories and breakdown some of the ways Remi is evolving. (Full episode link in the comments)

“One place that some of my buddies lived in in San Francisco looks like a prison yard. You walk in and there had to have been 300 bunk beds.” This week on Rise Over Run, Doug Barnett and Brant Choate dive into the differences between building startups in SF vs Salt Lake—two cities with completely different DNA. What unique advantages does each offer? And what will it take for Salt Lake City to produce a $100B company? (Full episode in comments)