 Hi everyone and welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcasts where we're connecting the latest stories, news and innovation from leaders across our industry. And today I'm happy to be joined by Theo Voss, CEO and co-founder of Interlink. Yeah, welcome. Thank you for having me. Yeah, so great to have you. It's nice to catch up. We're on day two here of Capacity Europe at the Intercontinental. How's the show going for you? It's amazing for us. It's the first presence of Interlink since we've been found in 2021, so this is the first capacity that we're doing. It's really exciting. We're having a lot of good conversations. We have been announcing a new product just yesterday. We've been on a panel yesterday, so Voss is really going well. Wow. Yeah, that's great to hear. Yeah, first time here and already lots happening. So let's back up for a second and just letter because you, as you mentioned, relatively new to this audience. Tell us about Interlink. Yeah, of course. So I think important to mention is that the people behind Interlink are not new to this industry. So everybody is an industry veteran. I've been in the industry for 10 years, but Interlink itself is relatively new. So Interlink has been founded in 2021 by my co-founder Mark and me to combine two things in this industry. And one is the need for automation and one is the other is the need for more sustainable kind of practice and more sustainable business and more sustainable products. Okay. So let's talk a bit more about that in terms of what you're doing in the ways of automation and sustainability that are innovative for the industry. Sure. So we spoke about this on the panel yesterday that we see so much growth in this industry and we see traffic growing. We see new trends like AI coming up. So there is a long-term perspective for everybody in the industry that needs more capacity, needs more infrastructure, needs more services provision. But we're still in a time where most of this is done by hand. So most of the carriers, most of the providers, most of the telcos still have 20 weeks lead time for services. And this is where we think that in order to work with this demand in order to fulfill this demand, we need more automation in order to scale. So Interlink is purely built on 100% automated platforms. Everything with provision, every service that is being purchased is instantaneously provisioned and there's no manual interaction needed anymore. And I think this is something where we really kind of set an example as well when you look around here at capacity that this is going to be a next trend when it comes to technology and how we do business. And I think the other thing is the sustainability part for us as a business that is carbon neutral certified since last year. One of the first big corporations in this industry that we need to make sure that we as an industry itself pay our fair share. And kind of take care of the responsibility that we have in terms of energy usage and reduce and make sure that we commit ourselves to a carbon neutral but also kind of let's your journey. And I think this is where Interlink again is one of the four runners here. Yeah, that's amazing to hear. I mean, sustainability continues to be such an important topic for our industry. For all industries, if we're being honest, but especially for our industry, you know, for folks like yourself that can make a difference in this. It's really, I think, appreciated by everyone and so many people that we talk to want to do business with folks that share that same way of thinking. Yeah, exactly. And I think the beauty of the business that we do is that we combine these two things, automation and sustainability, for our customers, which are mostly enterprises, and make them able to consume and not longer build. So we have a lot of build in this industry custom build for clients. And we make this a consumer approach, which is more similar to what we have in the cloud industry as of today, where they can consume IP services, security services, layer two services all around the world. So we have a global footprint as well, just with a click of a button. And I think this is something also related to the discussion yesterday on the panel is where we see the cloud providers, where we see large enterprises moving towards to. And I think this is also where we try, and I personally, as being industry for a decade now is trying to push everybody into that direction and setting, hopefully, a good example. Yeah. And so that the, you've mentioned the panel a couple of times now is about the convergence of connectivity in cloud. Is that right? Yeah, exactly. So I think that panel yesterday was a bit phrased around the challenge of convergence that everybody sees, but we don't feel that this is a challenge. We see it as a wonderful opportunity, actually, to use these tools that I mentioned earlier, automation sustainability, to move forward and kind of have a much more scalable, much more cost efficient way to fulfill the demand for more bandwidth, for more capacity all around the world. I see. Okay, so it's been great chatting with you. I didn't ask, where are you based and so where have you come from to come here? So we have the roots in Berlin, Germany. This is where the company has been founded and is headquartered, but we're fully remote. So we have 30 employees as of today, 50 nationalities and everybody is working from home. We set this up from the beginning also to make the business scale and not be dependent. I mean, we have a shortage of staff. Everybody has hard time finding good people. So this makes it much easier as we are small, but we are an international business. Right, yeah, covering lots of nationalities, as you said, which is so important in the global business that the global marketplace. Yeah, exactly. It also makes it easier to hire good talent and so on and so forth. So it overcomes again a few of the challenges when you commit. And I think this is important from day one to be remote native, because then you don't have this conflict of having people in an office and people remote. And I think this has gone well now. Yeah, yeah, well, that's great. Great to hear. I'm looking forward to talking to you again, you know, as the years progress, I'm sure we'll be here again next year. Maybe at some of the other shows throughout the year, but it's been great chatting with you. Yeah, I was going to say for the remainder of the week and then for folks that maybe aren't able to be here or don't get a chance to see you. How can they connect with you? So we have a boost up here. One floor above 914. We can stop by. We have a good presence on the web, of course, on social. So feel free to look at inter.link. It's the website. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn. If you want to hear more, learn more. I think we have a few press releases coming up. We're featured in capacity media. We have now the interview that the two of us did. So I think there's plenty of chances to get in touch. Fantastic. Thank you, Theo. We appreciate it. Thanks very much. And thank you viewers for tuning in this morning to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. Stay tuned for more interviews throughout the rest of the day in the show. And until then, happy networking.