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Which I would or I would say they're more concierge clouds. Um and that is where Maybe I'll talk to sales and I say, hey, I need sixty-four H one hundreds for the next six months. And they say okay and I wire transfer some money and then they provision the machines and they email me And then finally the I think some of the things that I've got to do. that's also interesting is um there's a GPU aggregator market that I would say is a subset of the GPU cloud market. And these are companies like Shadeform, Vast.ai, RunPod, fluid stack, SF compute, brev dev. There are more. And then also I would point out that a lot of times these business models get mixed so for example run sub run pod and flute stack they do aggregate gps but they also have their own hard Whereas SF Compute primarily aggregates GPUs and does not have their own hardware. Aggregators is just, you know, you go to one place and you can access GPUs from a bunch of different providers. It's something that I never thought would work, just because that's like very counter to how how most people have been using cloud computing. Like most people try to stay in one cloud only. of GPU scarcity and GPU pricing, uh the aggregator model is actually taking off. And I think that's probably And another interesting layer on top of that is

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to community development. What did you, you know, as we're a company at Stack Overflow. that is very community driven and it can be very insightful but it can also Why did you choose to go right to the communities? would love to say that it was kind of all in the master plan and we knew that it was gonna work out this way. But the truth of the matter is that my co-founder and I we identified. Software developers, right? So prior to starting RunPod, we worked together for about six six years in the same software development team. We built the team from about eight people when we started to almost a hundred people. And you know, we we found a lot. of joy not only in the craft, but working with other talented people. So When it was time to start RunPod and we can talk about like why we decided to start Run Pod. But when it was time to do that, we really were like, what are we good at? Right? We're not capital markets, right? But what we are experts are is software. And so So we decided, okay, well we're software developers. Let's write some software. We don't need other people. validation, money, et cetera, to just go do that. So you know we we did end up building some servers, we funded them ourselves, we ran them in our base.