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Erik says rapidly rising interest rates after the pandemic caused significant problems for Better.com.

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

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“we, uh, yeah, we, we started building it in, in two thousand fifteen, and I spent five years, uh, growing that company and then, you know, eventually turned out that doing mortgages is pretty hard and, you know, interest rates went up very quickly after the pandemic and, and that, that caused a lot of issues at the company.”
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