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20VC: Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs and Memory | We are Not in an Infra Bubble & Dario Got a Bad Deal with Elon for Compute | Should US Companies Sell to China & Why Most Layoffs are AI Washed with Andrew Feldman

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20VC: Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs and Memory | We are Not in an Infra Bubble & Dario Got a Bad Deal with Elon for Compute | Should US Companies Sell to China & Why Most Layoffs are AI Washed with Andrew Feldman

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

1 DAYS AGO
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Andrew Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. This month, Cerebras went public achieving a market cap of $70BN, the largest semiconductor IPO in history. Cerebras has a massive commercial backlog with a monumental, multi-year $20 billion co...

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Andrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras Systems, discusses the company's record-breaking IPO and the state of the AI industry. He argues that the current AI infrastructure buildout is not a bubble but is instead lagging behind surging demand, driven by the recent practical utility of AI models. He also addresses key industry challenges, including memory shortages, enterprise adoption barriers, and geopolitical considerations in chip manufacturing.
02:37
Jensen Huang predicts $3-4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by 2030
06:00
AI infrastructure buildout is behind demand, not ahead of it
08:00
Believing exponential growth and acting on it is a superpower.
09:05
Micron achieves 80-85% gross margins on HBM
15:59
Cerebras is 15x faster due to architecture
16:40
Full-stack ownership limits hardware sales to one customer
19:30
Speed is critical in AI.
27:15
Data centers must be good neighbors by paying their own way.
30:16
Most layoffs are AI-washed.
33:44
The biggest barrier to enterprise AI adoption is data structure and cleanliness.
34:49
Lawyers and security teams are the biggest inhibitors of enterprise AI adoption
35:38
Leaders weigh productivity gains against risks
39:22
Chip industry choke points make it manageable
45:55
IPO timing was driven by effort and luck.
51:01
Money changes entrepreneurs and investors.
53:28
The personal cost of building a hardware company

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Cerebras CEO on AI infrastructure and IPO
00:00
Why we are not in an infrastructure bubble and it is just the start
05:58
Sam Altman's superpower is his ability to forecast capex spend.
08:00
Anthropic did not get a good deal with Elon. They got a deal that was available.
08:58
What is going on with the price of memory and why is it a problem?
10:39
Are Google best positioned to produce tokens and what challenges do they face?
16:40
Is Coreweave dramatically undervalued or overvalued?
19:23
My biggest advice to entrepreneurs scaling their business
24:34
Why most of the layoffs are AI-washed and
30:13
What will we spend on tokens for software engineers in five years?
33:41
Why does the role of HR change so significantly in the world of AI?
34:48
Why lawyers are the biggest inhibitor of enterprise AI adoption
35:36
Why Jensen and Nvidia are wrong to sell chips to China
39:20
What needs to change in the U.S. to build a strategic asset in chips?
42:49
Should Cerebras invest in companies building on top of their platform; as Nvidia is?
51:00
Nothing changed when Cerebras IPO'd but I did make 800 millionaires.
53:28

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Andrew Feldman: We can't build data centers fast enough to keep up with demand. We have a $25 billion backlog. If demand stays high, we're going to continue to see memory shortages for at least the next several years. I think it has been NVIDIA's strategy ...