The Compute 100
The Compute 100 is a podcast that features conversations about the compute industry, highlighting 100 companies across the semiconductor and compute value chain, including chip design, fabrication, advanced packaging, memory, power delivery, networking, and AI software. Hosted by early stage compute investors Brian Schechter and Gaby Lorenzi, the show interviews operators, builders, and investors shaping the new compute-centric economy.
Episodes
Jeff Tatarchuk, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of TensorWave
Today's guest is Jeff Tatarchuk, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of TensorWave.Jeff is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career building in the cloud and compute space. Before TensorWave, he co-founded VMAccel, an early FPGA cloud and edge provider, alongside his eventual TensorWave co-founder Darrick Horton. In 2023, Jeff found himself in a convo with someone looking for access to G
Jeff Wittich, CPO of Ampere
Today's guest is Jeff Wittich, CPO of Ampere. Jeff started his career at Intel at a device engineer, which launched a 15 year run at the company, eventually leading their cloud business and custom CPU program. In 2019, Jeff joined Ampere, where he currently acts as CPO. Ampere made an early bet on power efficiency being core to the future of AI that paid off in a big way with a $6.5B acquisiti
Lisa Spelman, CEO of Cornelis Networks
Today's guest is Lisa Spelman. Lisa is currently the CEO of Cornelis Networks. Lisa's career started at Intel, where she spent almost 19 years, ending her tenure as the GM of Intel's Xeon product, their enteprise CPU line. It was there that Lisa saw the pain around high performance networking on large scale clusters, inspiring the move to the operator side. In 2024, she took the helm a
Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal
Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson.Erik is the founder and CEO of Modal, NYC-based Series C infrastructure startup, most recently valued at $4.65B, up from their Series B at $1.1B. Modal was founded in 2021, in a pre-ChatGPT world, built to ease developer friction around deploying and running ML models at scale. The early product was inspired by Erik's time at Spotify where he built their
Justin Selig, Director at Efficient Computer
Today's guest is Justin Selig.Back in 2018, after hearing about the company from other graduate students, Selig joined Cerebras as an early member of their technical staff. Through 4 years with the company, he built much of their core kernel infra and the Cerebras SDK. He went on to join Eclipse Ventures, one of Cerebras' earliest backers, as an investor. From Eclipse, he joined Efficient
