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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…”
Tens of Gigawatts of Bloom Generation Requires <10% of Electronics Supply Chain
“So even at the tens of gigawatts, we will be single digit percentages Of the total supply chain that already exists to make other devices of similar nature.”
Shridhar: Bloom Energy Capacity Will Exceed Two Gigawatts by Year-End
“We'll be over two gigawatts, Yes, we said that publicly”
Shridhar: Bloom Energy Deploys Power Faster Than Data Center Construction Timelines
“We can stand up that power faster than they can build a data center.”
Bloom Energy Delivered 50+ Megawatts of Power to Oracle in 55 Days
“We signed a contract with them that 90 days from the day we signed the contract, we would do 50 plus megawatts, which is an unbelievable speed. We delivered that in 55 days instead of 90 days.”
Shridhar: AI Data Centers Evaluate Power on Value Creation, Not Cost
“It is the primary input to manufacturing intelligence. At the end of the day, when you look at it end to end, it's neither price nor cost, it's value.”
Shridhar: Global Electricity Is a $5.5T Market; Bloom Energy Did $2B
“Electricity in the world is a five and a half trillion dollar market. Last year, our revenues were two billion.”
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…”
O'Driscoll: Planet Labs, Bloom, Opendoor, Oklo, and Seagate topped 2025 tech stocks
“Literally if you rank every stock in the U S and vaguely defined as tech and don't put a market cap filter, you know, a very small one cut out to on and below planet labs, bloom energy, open door, Oclo and Seagate top five performing stocks this year.”
Shridhar: Bloom Energy Powers Two-Thirds of the Caltech Campus
“Two thirds of Caltech campus is powered by us.”
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.”