K.R. Shridhar

10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 29, 2026 by K.R. Shridhar · across every show →

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Jun 29, 2026
Assertion Supported
Shridhar Worked on NASA Mars Missions Before Founding Bloom Energy
“Before starting the company, I did the Mars missions.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 1:52 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Opinion
Shridhar: Horizontal Drilling Is the Most Underrated Energy Transition Sector
“I think the people who created horizontal drilling and figured out how to extract more gas and more oil in a clear way as a bridge to the future, ah, that entire sector is underrated.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 1:01:08 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shridhar: AI Growth Will Maintain Long-Term Trajectory Despite Market Corrections
“Anything going at that speed, will it have bumps along the road? Will it have pauses along the way? Most probably, yes. You know, we don't know of anything else in human history of this scale and this magnitude, but it is the trajectory. Is the normal course a…”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 13:55 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 negative
Opinion
Shridhar: Space-Based Solar Power for Data Centers Is Currently Impractical
“You can squeeze water out of a rock, but why? There are better ways to do that right now on Earth.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 45:12 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2046
Shridhar: AI Demand Will Drive Global Electricity Abundance Within 20 Years
“So I'm super optimistic that if we look back 20 years from now, we will say AI was the best thing that happened because of which electricity abundance happened to everybody on the planet. AI is just a catalyst, a stepping stone, and a, and an accelerator.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 29:03 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026
Disclosure
Shridhar Did Not Understand EBITDA When Founding Bloom Energy
“When I started the company, if you had given me, if you had said P and L EBITDA, all those, you know, financial terms, I wouldn't even know what that meant.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 6:11 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Insight
Shridhar: Energy Sovereignty Is Second Only to Food in Global Importance
“I think of all the supply chains in the world we pretty much know how to grow food wherever we are. So next to, after food, it's energy sovereignty, period.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 44:00 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 negative
Insight
Shridhar: Throttling Energy Infrastructure via Regulation Severely Damages Regional Competitiveness
“Being left behind because a particular country, a particular geography throttled it, when somebody moved at breakneck speed becomes a real detriment to the region that throttled it.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 17:30 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Bloom Energy's 2001 Kleiner Perkins Pitch Proposed Off-Grid Data Centers
“So if you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center, it puts out a bloom box, powering the data center, the waste heat providing the cooling f…”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 4:26 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 29, 2026 neutral
Insight
Shridhar: No Country Is Economically Rich Without Energy Abundance
“There is no energy poor country that's economically rich.”
K.R. Shridhar Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 1:05:22 Bloom Energy CEO: Why We Aren’t in an AI Capex Bubble | Energy Sovereignty & The Future of Power · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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