Josh Elman
speaker
677 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Josh Elman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then when you get to interview or interact with the real read, you feel like you're ready to go have a much deeper conversation because you've actually experienced some of it before.
Like I think these ideas of these these doubles are really a fun way to sort of be a precursor to a real
meeting or in l you know, but not in lieu of.
This is a really interesting challenge of our time in technology.
For many, many years, you know, as as I first was getting my start in my career, actually building a website was actually quite expensive.
You had to go buy physical servers, get racks at data centers, actually put them up in the data centers, manage them, have people who are managing them.
So if you want to just build a website, like you actually needed to raise a lot of capital just to fund that.
I remember in my
First week when I joined LinkedIn, one of the things we did was move from one set of racks to a much bigger set of racks in the data center.
And they needed the entire company.
I mean, I it was, you know, maybe 15 or so people at the time to actually go and move computers from one rack to another, just to remind remind you of the costs.
What got amazing in this era of cloud scaling, Amazon Web Services, all these new stacks was all of a sudden you didn't need that same set of
heavy upfront infrastructure costs.
And it became very, very cheap or so cheap that you could scale these consumer things quite far to serve many, many people.
And the product you were building mattered more.
Fast forward to today, we have costs again.
You know, and actually they're they're variable costs.
They're these inference costs.
You know, they aren't just even this fixed cost of infrastructure.
And so we really need to figure out, you know, what you can give consumers for free, what
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