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Brandon McBee

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Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I don't think we're supposed to be supporting just one or two companies.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Seeing the inference aspect of it really emboldened investors, but that was really just January or maybe late Q4 where you started seeing this just massive inflection of demand driven by inference.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

For us, it's tough for me to speak about other companies, but for us, why have we been underwritten

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

at such scale and at a decreasing cost of capital, I think it goes back to that track record of execution, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's just the market has watched us execute and watch us deliver on these contracts.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And the way, and tell me if I'm going into too much detail here, but the way that we finance our business, you kind of break it into two broad buckets, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You have parent co-financing and asset co-financing.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And asset co-financing is

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

is where all of the GPUs get financed, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's where all of our client contracts sit.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And we can take these financings and put them into STDs, or we'll just call it a box, so to say.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And you- Sorry, keep going.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

We put them into STDs.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And these STBs, they have the infrastructure, they have the data center costs, and they have the debt agreements within them.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And so you're able to pair this five-year take-or-pay contract to an amortization schedule on the debt, and you have the revenue come into the box, pay down the amortization schedule, pay down the operating costs of the data center,

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And it still contributes a, it has a 25% contribution margin of profit up to the parent code, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Like these are highly profitable agreements down in the SPV stack.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And so you take that SPV out to the credit market and say,

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

look at this instrument.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's a discrete set of contracts with counterparties, like entities who want to consume GPU compute.