David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

We have a company called...

Summit, previously Deft, that is what we call white gloves.

They just, they work in the data center.

When we need something like, hey, Deft, can you go down and swap the debt SSD in box number six?

They do it.

And what we see is akin to what someone working with the cloud would see.

You see IP addresses coming online.

You see drives coming online.

It's not that different, but it is a whole heck of a lot cheaper.

when you are operating at our scale.

And of course it is.

Of course it's cheaper to own things if you need those things for years rather than it is to rent it.

In no other domain would we confuse those two things that it's cheaper to own for the long duration than it is to rent.

Oh, and I love that, right?

They're dealing with a frontier problem, and they're dealing with it not by renting a bunch of GPUs at a huge markup from their main competitor.

They're going like, no, screw that.

We're going to put 100,000 GPUs in our own tents, right, and build it in absolute record time.

So I think, if anything, this is testament to the idea that owning hardware can give you an advantage, both at the small scale, at the medium scale, and at the pioneer levels of computing.

I don't think he's finding as much as he's attracting.

He's attracting the talent because of the audaciousness of his goals and his mission, the clarity by which he states it.