Jake Cooper

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud — Jake Cooper · 20 May 2026 podcast

I spent a weekend

rebuilding our entire network overlay, essentially, so that we could straddle five different clouds.

Right.

Yeah.

Oracle, AWS, ourselves, GCP, and one other one, right?

And we can do more than that now, right?

But we got into a spot where we were just trying to

pack instances tight because we couldn't get the amount of compute that we needed, right?

And it was really unfortunate because as a result, like, some of, we had a few, like, reliability kind of things, which are now kind of past us, but it was all a result of this kind of, like, there was a tweet that I made where, like, you know, I, like, got in trouble because I was trying to point it out, but I accidentally caught this super base folks in the crossfire, but, like, the tweet was about there's, it's really, really difficult and it's going to become more and more difficult to acquire compute at the rate that these models need to acquire compute, right?

And we got bit by it, which is,

you know, fair and reasonable in the karma scheme of me, you know, trying to point it out.

Because we've built out our metal data centers, like our margins on metal are like quite high for the like 70%.

And so we can actually deeply subsidize the cloud business if we want to scale at a reasonable rate.

And so we have a few different like it's actually very fun from like an operations perspective because you have a few different levers on how you can go and scale it.

You have like the metal, which actually like makes your margins.

You have the cloud burst, et cetera.

You have debt you can use to like buy servers in general.

So it's a very interesting like operational like problem to basically say like.

okay, we have this much cash.

Oh, and then you've obviously venture capital that you can raise on top of it, right?

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