Reselling spare GPU and data center capacity | Mihai Mărcuță

Cloud Frontier

In this episode of Cloud Frontier, host Rob Pankow, CEO of ⁠simplyblock⁠, is joined by Mihai Mărcuță from ⁠NodeShift, a company decentralized cloud platforms that helps to connect enterprises with spare data center capacity, offering GPUs, storage and compute.

Mihai talks about the origin story of NodeShift, as well as his experience of fundraising. He shares his views on AI, hyperscalers and future of cloud technologies.
To reach out to Mihai or NodeShift see the following links: ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaimarcuta ► X/Twitter: https://x.com/mihaimarcuta ► LinkedIn (NodeShift): https://www.linkedin.com/company/nodeshift ► X/Twitter (Nile): https://x.com/nodeshiftcloud ► Website: https://nodeshift.com/

📋 Shownotes: https://dhh.dk/ - Mihai mentioned David Heinemeier Hansson as one of his inspirations https://groq.com/ - Groq is mentioned in context of NVIDIA's competition

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