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Brandon McBee

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

You have the data centers within it, et cetera.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And one of the latest ones we did was, as we call it, DDTL4.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

This was an investment grade rated, first of its class.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

No one had done this before for GPU financing, non-recourse HPC infrastructure financing.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And it got done at SOFR plus 225.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That is a phenomenal cost of capital for us and importantly,

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

we were able to bring in the insurance charge of capital, which is a massive charge of capital out there that is looking to do allocations into the space.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

So we're kind of continuously making progress through these different stacks of capital and locking access to more and more types of investors.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

That's why I've seen us move into the convertible note market, into the unsecured market as well, along with taking direct strategic equity investments.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

But for us, it's

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

really important for the entire investor space to understand this business, because this business largely didn't exist before, right?

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

People weren't making loans into the hyperscale to go credit these buildups, right?

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

It's on CoreWeave, honestly, to be building this path into how do you finance the AI hyperscaler effectively?

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And I think we've just done a terrific job of it over the past few years.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

I think it's very much a timeline question that's out there.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

Short term, no.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And let me offer why no short term.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And then I'd say maybe in the long term.

Odd Lots
How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

And it all comes back to fungibility, right?

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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

If you think about gold, gold is defined by its chemical composition, right?