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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.
Jasper Zhang
Jasper Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic, an open-access AI cloud and GPU marketplace based in San Francisco. A math prodigy who won gold medals at the Chinese and Russian Mathematical Olympiads and finished a UC Berkeley math PhD in two years, he moved from quantitative research at Citadel Securities to blockchain research at Ava Labs before founding Hyperbolic in 2022 with Yuchen Jin. His mission: make large-scale AI compute affordable and available to anyone with an idea, from students to enterprises.