The Compute 100

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The Compute 100 is the home for conversations about compute. The Compute 100 highlights 100 companies building across the semiconductor and compute value chain — 50 public, 50 private. It spans chip design, fabrication, advanced packaging, memory, power delivery, networking, and the software stack powering AI workloads. This podcast highlights conversations with the operators, builders, and investors shaping the new compute-centric economy. The podcast is hosted by Brian Schechter and Gaby Lorenzi, early stage compute investors at Primary.

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The Compute 100: Chase Lochmiller, CEO of Crusoe 09.07.2026 1:16:43

Today's guest is Chase Lochmiller , co-founder and CEO of Crusoe. While climbing mountains with his best friend turned co-founder, Chase first learned about gas flares — spots around the world where energy was virtually free. In 2018, the vision was clear: co-locate small data centers next to these flares, mine bitcoin, and scale. But while Crusoe grew its mining business, Chase's core lon...

Jeff Tatarchuk, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of TensorWave 17.06.2026 54:41

Today's guest is Jeff Tatarchuk , co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of TensorWave. Jeff is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career building in the cloud and compute space. Before TensorWave, he co-founded VMAccel, an early FPGA cloud and edge provider, alongside his eventual TensorWave co-founder Darrick Horton. In 2023, Jeff found himself in a convo with someone looking for access to...

Jeff Wittich, CPO of Ampere 26.05.2026 55:46

Today's guest is Jeff Wittich , CPO of Ampere. Jeff started his career at Intel at a device engineer, which launched a 15 year run at the company, eventually leading their cloud business and custom CPU program. In 2019, Jeff joined Ampere, where he currently acts as CPO. Ampere made an early bet on power efficiency being core to the future of AI that paid off in a big way with a $6.5B acquisit...

Lisa Spelman, CEO of Cornelis Networks 22.05.2026 1:03:58

Today's guest is Lisa Spelman . Lisa is currently the CEO of Cornelis Networks. Lisa's career started at Intel, where she spent almost 19 years, ending her tenure as the GM of Intel's Xeon product, their enteprise CPU line. It was there that Lisa saw the pain around high performance networking on large scale clusters, inspiring the move to the operator side. In 2024, she took the helm...

Erik Bernhardsson, CEO of Modal 21.05.2026 54:46

Today's guest is Erik Bernhardsson . Erik is the founder and CEO of Modal, NYC-based Series C infrastructure startup, most recently valued at $4.65B, up from their Series B at $1.1B. Modal was founded in 2021, in a pre-ChatGPT world, built to ease developer friction around deploying and running ML models at scale. The early product was inspired by Erik's time at Spotify where he built thei...

Justin Selig, Director at Efficient Computer 20.05.2026 57:24

Today's guest is Justin Selig . Back in 2018, after hearing about the company from other graduate students, Selig joined Cerebras as an early member of their technical staff. Through 4 years with the company, he built much of their core kernel infra and the Cerebras SDK. He went on to join Eclipse Ventures, one of Cerebras' earliest backers, as an investor. From Eclipse, he joined Efficien...