causal claim
The speaker's company provides cloud-like functions without owning hardware because hardware ownership would let it manipulate the forwards market; the company therefore needs to remain independent.
Evan Conrad · The Programmable Data Center — Evan Conrad, SF Compute · 20 Oct 2026
In their words
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“Um we do all the things the cloud does without being the cloud. Um as in we don't own the hardware. Um the reason why we don't own the hardware is because if we did, we would be able to manipulate the forwards market. So”
“We have to be Switzerland,”
“we have to be independent,”29:05Report a misattribution
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