KR Sridhar

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1,114 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

KR Sridhar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Leo Aschenbrenner's Largest Holding: Inside the $90BN Bloom Energy | Why Electricity, Not AI Models, Will Decide the Winners of the AI Race | Why We Are Not in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty and The Future of Power with KR Sridhar · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

It was a question of when and how soon.

Did you ever doubt it?

I mean, 25 years is astonishing, KR.

There was not a single night I went home and worried about the company surviving or doing well or whether I had made a mistake jumping into this field.

There were several days, there were several times where the company had existential threats to it that we had to overcome.

But in my mind, again, failure was never an option.

So I really never once worried about when we wake up tomorrow morning, are we going to be better off than we were the previous day?

Sure.

I'm a technologist.

I used to be a rocket scientist.

So here I am starting a company.

And when I started the company, if you had given me, if you had said P&L, EBITDA, all those financial terms, I wouldn't even know what that meant.

And I learned along the way.

So here I am.

I know how to build one-off, and really well, because that's what we did for the space missions.

That's what we did in our university labs.

So we built this one-off, two-off of the first bloom boxes that are out there working at Google, other places doing very well.

After we built the first five, me and the engineer said, we can now hand it off to manufacturing and ask them to make it.

Little did we know our engineering intent, our design intent, everything we knew had to be written up in such elaborate terms in terms of manufacturing instructions for somebody who is just a technician, who does not know the engineering content, but will do exactly what they're being told to make these boxes.

So here we build the next 10, the next 20.

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