Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems · 4 appearances on the record.

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Andrew Feldman leads Cerebras Systems, an AI hardware and cloud company known for creating the Wafer-Scale Engine for AI training and inference. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of SeaMicro, an energy-efficient microserver startup acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357 million.

137statements → 75claims → 44claims resolved → 64%fully supported → 4.08/5average certainty → 2.64/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 9said about them ↓

28 supported 11 partly supported 5 contradicted 12 not yet assessed 19 not checkable as stated how the 75 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

19 predictions · 56 assertions · 27 opinions · 23 insights · 12 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 75 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 44 are resolved, 12 are not yet assessed, and 19 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Andrew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Elon Musk and Tesla Failed at Building Wafer-Scale Chips for Dojo
“And after we did it Elon tried Dojo and they failed.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 23:29 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Feldman: US export controls led US VCs to fund Chinese EDA startups
“You, ah, sought to limit Chinese access to EDA tools to delay the growth of a Chinese chip market. And so U.S. Venture capitalists backed tons of Chinese companies in Shenzhen to build EDA tools, right?”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 57:49 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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75% certainty 3
83% certainty 4
69% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.2 / 5 directness 4.3 · coherence 4.5 · precision 4.1 · compression 3.7

redirected or did not address 9 of 65 assessed questions (14%). Watch them ▸

This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →

How they sound: speaking style how? →

237 words/min while actually speaking · 25.9 um and uh per 1k words · 36.5 false starts per 1k · 28.9% of pauses land inside a clause

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 28,167 words across 3 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Andrew Feldman said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Nvidia Conceals Massive Chip Field Failure Rates to Keep Customers Waiting
“You don't talk about the field failure rate of your products, which are massive. Rather you sort of keep talking about the future in an effort to convince people to wait, to make a good decision rather than go with technology that's, that that's better and pre…”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 12:47 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Elon Musk and Tesla Failed at Building Wafer-Scale Chips for Dojo
“And after we did it Elon tried Dojo and they failed.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 23:29 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Nvidia Has Zero CUDA Software Lock-In for AI Inference
“In inference, it's not real at all. There's no CUDA lock-in in inference. None. Well, you can move from OpenAI on an NVIDIA GPU to Cerebrus to Fireworks Service on something else to Together to perplexity with 10 keystrokes. I mean, anybody who actually uses A…”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 42:10 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman states the Trump administration is unwaveringly better for business
“Unwaveringly better for business. You know, there are things I agree with, there are things I disagree with in this administration, but unwaveringly better for business.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 57:10 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman claims Nvidia funds neoclouds to create competitors for traditional hyperscalers
“I think it has been NVIDIA's strategy to try and create competitors for the traditional hyperscalers. They have funded and backstopped and over allocated to the neoclouds. They have created a dependence, which is probably not healthy.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 0:37 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman says Elon Musk sold outdated H100 hardware in suboptimal deals
“They got H 100. They didn't get the B 200. They didn't get the most current. They are a generation and a half, maybe two generations behind. So the, this was not a great deal. It was a good deal for Elon. He had them sitting around, but they were forced to tak…”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 6:48 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Feldman asserts 90% to 95% of recent tech layoffs are AI-washed
“I think to date, most of the layoffs were AI washed. They were, because we did boneheaded hiring, During COVID. It is actually because a great deal of productivity gains has been, have occurred over the years that we're just now harvesting. The ability to gath…”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 33:00 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman asserts China will inevitably use advanced US chips for military applications
“If we sell leading edge technology to China, will their military use it? Everybody says yes. There is no debate on that point. Their military will use it. You ask a second question, which is, if you sell our leading edge technology, will they, will their gover…”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 44:05 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman proposes granting TSMC and Samsung 20-year exemptions from local US ordinances
“I would allow TSMC and Samsung both to a 20 year period free from all local and legal, local ordinances, all of them, to build fabs in their desired location in the US.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 49:10 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman argues Europe's regulate-and-tax culture stifles tech entrepreneurship
“There has emerged in Europe a sort of be afraid of it, then regulate it, tax it, or sort of mentality that works against entrepreneurship.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 50:53 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
No Company Ever Went Bankrupt by Overpaying Extraordinary Talent
“No company ever went bankrupt by paying extraordinary people too much.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 43:00 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Feldman: Cerebras chips are faster than Nvidia at both training and inference
“No, we're faster on both, but the software challenges In training are real.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 24:13 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
In AI Inference, Nobody Cares About Nvidia's CUDA or PyTorch
“In inference, the truth is, nobody cares about CUDA. Nobody even cares about PyTorch. All right. What they want is an API.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 24:59 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Biden Administration AI Policy Was Misguided and Afraid Compared to Trump's
“I think it's confusing. And on net, it's probably more to help. The Biden administration was misguided and afraid. And I think the Trump administration, I think to his credit, they surrounded himself with some smart people and in the AI space. And I think they…”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 34:33 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
The Silicon Industry Is Not a Place for 25-Year-Old CEOs
“The silicon industry is not a place for twenty-five-year-old CEOs, no matter how smart you are. The returns to having built parts before in what we do are enormous.”
Andrew Feldman Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 1:07:46 Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman: GPU off-chip memory architecture can be beaten in inference
“The fundamental architecture of the GPU with off-chip memory is not great for inference. Now, they will continue to do well in inference, but it can be beaten, and I think they know it.”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 0:17 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Feldman: Cerebras Is First to Yield Whole Wafers in Computing History
“And that had never been done in a computer before, and that's at the heart of our architecture. That allowed us to yield and deliver whole wafers. Nobody had ever been able to do that in the seventy-year history of our industry.”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 14:14 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman: ChatGPT was a UI invention, not a technical innovation
“ChatGPT was not really a technical innovation. It was a user interface invention.”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 19:12 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Feldman: US export controls led US VCs to fund Chinese EDA startups
“You, ah, sought to limit Chinese access to EDA tools to delay the growth of a Chinese chip market. And so U.S. Venture capitalists backed tons of Chinese companies in Shenzhen to build EDA tools, right?”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 57:49 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Feldman: Western tech leaders fundamentally underestimate China's AI capabilities
“A hundred percent. I think, and it is one of the most obvious and frequent errors in judgment. Is that you underestimate the other side. I think, ah, you have to look carefully at what they're doing, and their investment in infrastructure has been extraordinar…”
Andrew Feldman Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:01:28 Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Feldman claims Micron achieves software-like 80% to 85% margins on memory
“Micron is producing numbers where they have 80, 85% gross margins. I mean, they're getting software gross margins on making memory.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 8:17 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Feldman claims Cerebras chips are 15 times faster than competing GPUs
“Now, we are 15 x faster because of architectural reasons.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 15:33 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Feldman claims NeoClouds face massive cost disadvantages buying Nvidia hardware
“When Google or when Cerebris puts our equipment in our own data center, right, we have a significant advantage Over a NeoCloud, because NeoClouds are buying hardware with gross margins of 70, 80% for NVIDIA.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 18:13 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Feldman predicts there will be zero market for slow AI inference
“Why do we believe that inference will be any different? There'll be zero marking for slowing them.”
Andrew Feldman May 26, 2026 ▶ 22:19 Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sell to China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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Appearances (4)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Cerebras CEO on the Future of Data Centres, Token Costs & Memory | Should US Companies Sel May 26, 2026 47m
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried Ab Oct 6, 2025 58m
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Apr 3, 2025 16m
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Mar 24, 2025 51m
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