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Evan Conrad Is Teaching Supercomputers How to Have an Exit
A year-long GPU lease nearly emptied a two-person startup's bank account. Evan Conrad turned the mistake into SF Compute - an order book where AI companies can buy serious computing power and sell back the hours they no longer need.
Mansour Karam
Mansour Karam is the founder and CEO of Aria Networks, the AI-native networking company that raised $125M to rethink how GPU clusters talk to each other. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with a Lebanese-American background, he helped build Arista Networks from a handful of employees to a $4B IPO, then founded Apstra - the company that coined 'intent-based networking' - and sold it to Juniper in 2021. A piano player who names companies after musical terms, Karam has spent 25 years at the bleeding edge of how data moves, and now bets that the network - not the GPU - is the real bottleneck in the AI era.