Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth
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Andrew Feldman is Co-Founder & CEO of Cerebras, building the world's fastest AI inference and training. Cerebras recently closed a $1.1BN Series G round at an $8.1 billion valuation, backed by top names including Fidelity, Atreides, Tiger Global, Valor Equity and 1789 Capital. Under his leadership, they’ve leapfrogged GPU limits in inference, operate at trillions of tokens per month, and are filing to go public soon. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:19 Why We Did Not IPO and Raised $1BN From Fidelity 04:17 Analysis of Chip and Compute Landscape Today 13:22 NVIDIA Showing Signs They Are Running Out of Ideas 15:57 The Real Questions to Ask on Chip Depreciation 30:49 Energy Requirements for AI: Is it Feasible? 36:42 Mag7 Value Concentration: Feature or a Bug 39:27 Talent is the Bottleneck and Trump Makes it Worse 43:18 Evaluating the Data Centre Economy: Many Will Lose Money 55:50 Three Changes the US Could Make to Beat China in AI 01:01:36 Quick-Fire Round ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZTtgTNBKwtZBMHvl?si=85bc9196860e4466 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-venture-capital-startup/id958230465 Follow Harry Stebbings on X: https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings Follow Andrew Feldman on X: https://twitter.com/andrewdfeldman Follow 20VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/contact ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #andrewfeldman #cerebras #ceo #founder #ai #nvidia #chips #mag7 #tech #datacenter
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