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Modal's long-standing vision was to become a multi-product cloud platform, a strategy now represented by Functions and Sandboxes.

Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026

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“And, and to me, it's, like, really exciting 'cause, like, even back in the early days of Modal, I always knew that Modal, you know, is about, like, creating a whole toolkit of products.”
“Like, we always wanted to be almost like a cloud, you know. You have the storage and the compute and a bunch of different ways to work with it.”
“We always wanted to be a multi-product vendor, but that wasn't necessarily true in practice until, like, now, where, like, I think now it's, like, kinda clear. We have Functions. We have Sandboxes.”
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