How did the team navigate the early years when the market was not ready?
Replied byAndrew Feldman
Co-founder & CEO at Cerebras Systems
Niche: Technology
Revenue: Approx. $72 Million/month
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Started: 2016
We were honest with our venture capitalists that we were attacking a massive engineering problem to build something fifty times better than a GPU. During our hardest phase, we spent eight million USD a month for eighteen months before successfully manufacturing our first wafer.
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