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TBPN 6 
A Product Market Fit Show 6 
Big Technology 5 
Acquired 4 
In Depth 3 
Startup Acquisition Stories 2 
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American Optimist 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
Starter Story 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
Sourcery 1 
All-In 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Kubernetes comes up on Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, BG2 Pod
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:22 John Coogan I do think they have only one play left now to pull from their own Android Kubernetes playbook and fully embrace open models.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:03 Jensen Huang If not for open, if not for Linux, if not for Kubernetes, if not for all of these, you know, platform, if not for, uh, TensorFlow or more important, uh, PyTorch, right?
Inference 101: SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 9:38 Rodrigo Liang We're using standard Kubernetes, standard Red Hat Linux, standard Ethernet at the top for networking.
IBM's AI Rollercoaster, Demis Calls for AI Watchdog, NY Pauses AI Data Centers | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:51 unnamed speaker Hmm, if you really, really squint Red Hat, Kubernetes, it's keeping time between distributed systems, maybe there's something there, but, ah, when you're running a database across a bunch of different servers, there's some timekeeping… 2 times in the scene
The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 0:00 Akshat Bubna We've actually changed our SDK team to think about agent experience, sort of, uh, developer experience, and, and we think that the same benefits that apply for DX also actually apply for AX, which is why would you have an agent read…
- ▶ 2:10 Akshat Bubna It's because you have to run them on Kubernetes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 Akshat Bubna We've actually changed our SDK team to think about agent experience, sort of, uh, developer experience, and we think that the same benefits that apply for DX also actually apply for AX, which is why would you have an agent read through…
- ▶ 8:18 unnamed speaker So there, there is still a role for like the always on large scale Kubernetes type of things.
He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:42 Anurag Goel And so even when they build a higher level products, these products don't solve all the problems because you can always go tell the user, well, if it doesn't do this, then just use Kubernetes because you can always use Kubernetes. 2 times in the scene
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 13:20 Matei Zaharia Uh, but for example, someone added support for running it on Kubernetes.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 43:20 Bill Gurley Google did with Kubernetes, uh, to, to try and commoditize where workflows live off of AWS and to make it easy to migrate.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 4:19 Ivan Burazin But the interesting part is that we, at that point in time, because there was no VS code, for those that still remember VS code, um, for, um, there was no Kubernetes and Docker had just started when we, or I'm not sure if it was even,
- ▶ 14:37 Ivan Burazin And we looked at Kubernetes.
- ▶ 29:17 Ivan Burazin What we are competing against in that environment is essentially managed Kubernetes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:02 Shawn Wang Uh, and built the spiritual successor to serverless and Kubernetes and for agents.
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 43:18 Graham Moreno But I didn't really have to be able to talk about like big data systems or like anything to do with Kafka or anything to do with Kubernetes.
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:52 John Coogan Well, have they given us an update on how they are rolling out Kubernetes, how it's going, building their NeoCloud?
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 3:02 Jake Cooper So you have like Docker and cube and then like Ansible scripts and all of these other things, right?
- ▶ 15:02 Jake Cooper Like, we've talked a lot about, like, how we don't really use Kube, uh, like Kubernetes.
- ▶ 45:50 Jake Cooper Massive systems that these companies built on top of like Docker for local and then like cube for production and like this specific thing for whatever.
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 0:57 Matt Turck We go from first principles, why does an agent need a computer at all, all the way to the deep technical end, why Daytona had to throw out Kubernetes and write their own scheduler, and why a global CPU shortage might be coming faster than…
- ▶ 23:45 Ivan Borzin And so in 2009, for those of you that were around, there was like no Docker, no Kubernetes, no VS code.
- ▶ 53:11 Ivan Borzin So it can be like Kubernetes or nomad or whatever. 2 times in the scene
How AI Agent Swarms Might Be AI's Next Leap — With Guillaume de Saint-Marc
- ▶ 10:43 Guillaume de Saint-Marc You know, the equivalent of a stock shop, you know, for Kubernetes, this is how to get started, and we exercise the different agency function in a little example application, and then we have more advanced examples there as well.
- ▶ 20:00 Guillaume de Saint-Marc So basically the, the platform, you know, is, you know, your different clusters, your different Kubernetes, uh, containers.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 15:54 Ashmeet Sidana We had Kubernetes in the cloud, but Kubernetes is not how you deploy your AI imprints and your AI training workloads.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:08 Madhav Jha So we, we built our own Kubernetes, uh, text tag from ground up, uh, the container text tag.
⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
- ▶ 24:29 Dhravya Shah And this happens to us, and we want to make sure that, like, we're giving them a lot of, you know, a lot of satisfaction on, like, they should be happy about using Kubernetes, and it should not be something that, you know, they have to be…
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 12:35 Nader Khalil I think a quote was like, the first thing someone's going to want to do with this is get two of them and run a Kubernetes cluster on top of them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:35 Kyle Kranen So you actually have to scale out to use a, you know, maybe some Kubernetes type terminology.
- ▶ 42:24 Kyle Kranen Yeah, so Dynamo actually has like a Kubernetes component in it called Grove that allows you to do this like crazy scaling specialization. 3 times in the scene
Why Your AI Agents Don’t Work with Dex Horthy of HumanLayer | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 10:22 Dex Horthy Kubernetes Terraform, like, deployment, deployment system.
How Digital TEAMMATES Transform Billion Dollar Industries? | Samay Kohli of GreyOrange & Budy.ai
- ▶ 54:52 Samay Kohli So we got deep into Kubernetes and we were learning, okay, this is how that did. 2 times in the scene
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:29 Boris Cherny But yeah, like, automating, uh, bash commands, that was a very early use case, and like, operating, like, Kubernetes and kind of things like this.
- ▶ 12:26 Boris Cherny You know, like for something like Git output, maybe it's not useful, but if you're running, you know, like Kubernetes jobs or something like this, you actually do want to see it.
Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
- ▶ 6:01 Timothée LeCroix So we will use part of that capacity for ourselves as one of our training clusters, but we will also provide a managed Kubernetes and managed Slurm stack on top.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 28:57 David Soria Parra They effectively have a command to launch it, and it just launches in like a, in a Kubernetes cluster for them.
- ▶ 1:25:23 Jim Zemlin Kubernetes is sort of that.
- ▶ 1:33:16 Jim Zemlin Kubernetes, which was kind of the Borg, and they renamed it Kubernetes, uh, to the Linux Foundation. 5 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:05:08 Satya Nadella I just need Kubernetes, you know, clustered all over, but I just need you to do the management part, and I'll bring all my software.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 17:51 Sachin Aggarwal Cloud native applications started happening mostly around 2018 when Kubernetes came.
- ▶ 21:35 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And now you're talking about Docker, containers, Kubernetes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:51 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And because our audience might not understand what's Docker, what's a container, what's Kubernetes.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 19:26 unnamed speaker Uh, just some Kubernetes pods.
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 12:09 Michael Truell and so there was a whole story of, you know, we were running a very, very large Kubernetes cluster, larger than, um, many other companies, and then, ah, trying to figure that out on the fly with, 2 times in the scene
The Agents Economy Backbone - with Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data & AI at Stripe
- ▶ 1:13:58 Emily Glassberg Sands We also love, like, weights and biases, um, flight, Kubernetes, like, sort of, like, sort of, like, the basic stack you can think of.
He quit Google & his 1st startup failed—but his 2nd grows at $1M ARR every 10 days. | Zach Llyod,... · PMF Show
- ▶ 29:56 Zach Lloyd I really didn't want to work on like a niche developer tool, like a better Kubernetes thingamajang or whatever.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:26:07 Ben Gilbert They launched Kubernetes.
⚡️Traversal: Causal ML and Reinforcement Learning
- ▶ 39:02 Raaz Dwivedi If you ask people who work in infrastructure, they are like Kubernetes auto-scaling.
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 22:34 Batuhan Taskaya Are you just built, are you just repping another, like, if you have, like, a Kubernetes deployment, are you just repping it and giving people access? 2 times in the scene
He quit Google, launched Rubrik—then grew to $1B ARR & a $16B market cap. | Soham Mazumdar, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:37 Soham Mazumdar So I would say that is the one piece that, uh, you know, Google truly mastered, uh, you know, and, and, you know, all of the technologies that are like commonplace today, like Kubernetes,
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 0:52 Shawn Wang Like containers stop at like the single, uh, single sort of node and you need more networking and like Kubernetes has, has its own thing, but like really I needed something lighter weight and, and you, you guys solved a lot of those…
- ▶ 6:49 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) To a certain extent, like with Git and Pod, it's like, it's a Kubernetes-based architecture. 2 times in the scene
China, China, China. Breaking Down China’s Tech Surge | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 54:33 Bill Gurley Open source Kubernetes
A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:49:43 Ben Gilbert They run far less Kubernetes than they run Borg, and Borg is part of the secret sauce.
No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- ▶ 13:52 Dylan Patel Because you have Slurm installed, or you have Kates installed, and, um, you know, your network performance is good, and your reliability is good, and it's secure, right? 2 times in the scene
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 3:01 Raghu Raghuram And the second one was, um, call it, uh, containers and Kubernetes. 3 times in the scene
The Future of AI Video: How Fal.ai is Making AI Video Faster & Easier
- ▶ 25:44 unnamed speaker On top of it, we tried, like, we tried using Kubernetes, other solutions, but we found them to be too slow for cold starts, because till that date, like, no one cared enough to start a workload and shut it down, like, after a request… 2 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 21:56 Chris Lattner I have a Kubernetes cluster.
- ▶ 1:17:07 Chris Lattner Yeah, we're, we're hiring a small number of elite nerds, and so if you care about GPU programming, you care about AI models, you care about inference, you care about Kubernetes and cloud scale stuff, please check us out.
[AIEWF Preview] Containing Agent Chaos — Solomon Hykes
- ▶ 8:17 Solomon Hykes All the effort went into infrastructure, you know, Kubernetes, scalable storage, scalable networking,
Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models
- ▶ 4:29 Guido Appenzeller We're seeing more and more enterprises that are actually comfortable with just building on top of a simple Kubernetes abstraction or something.
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 11:22 Silas Alberti I think we just, like, schedule indexing jobs in Kubernetes, have, like, a system that, like, manages it.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month
- ▶ 12:21 Lane Wagoner We use Kubernetes, Docker, Vue, Nuxt, JavaScript, TypeScript.
Harnessing High-Performance Computing: Todd Smith’s Vision for OpnBook’s TAHO Infrastructure
- ▶ 2:10 Todd Smith And, uh, really aims at complementing and in some cases helping to, uh, better any environments that may be using Kubernetes today.
Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
- ▶ 16:22 Vasek Mlejnsky I think a good analogy here is sort of, like, technologically, it's kind of, you want to be the Kubernetes of the world for the agent, but with much better DX, uh, and, and easier, easier to use.
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 21:26 unnamed speaker Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 56:22 Evan Conrad And then on top of that image, we can throw Kubernetes on it.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs
- ▶ 28:34 Thomas Kurian First of all, Kubernetes became, it's an open standard for people spinning up cloud workloads, uh, in computation. 3 times in the scene
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 23:14 Bill Gurley And a great example is Kubernetes. 4 times in the scene
Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
- ▶ 25:31 Guillermo Rauch Is that I thought, holy crap, Kubernetes is so hard.
Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:43:07 Aravind Srinivas Spin up jobs, um, easily host models, um, have the Kubernetes support for, like, scaling instances.
Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents.
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
- ▶ 25:50 Sunil Pai See, bro, the first step was making sure you don't have to use Kubernetes, and that we kind of solved. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:32 Rita Kozlov Um, so, agent like identification and, um, the, I think the second one was the Kubernetes problem. 2 times in the scene
He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show
- ▶ 20:46 Edo Liberty You know, everybody was hosting models and Kubernetes, uh, you know, automation and all that stuff.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 15:04 Matt Biilmann Like you definitely don't want a code-gened agent that you're using to solve one of these problems to give you like a massive Kubernetes cluster and be like, good luck. 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 34:58 Matt Biilmann Like, and then we came up with Kubernetes to distribute them and so on, right?
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 14:19 Paul Klein This sounds like a problem for Kubernetes and Docker, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Paul Klein We use Kubernetes at BrowserBase, so we have, you know, many pods that are being scheduled.
- ▶ 57:53 Paul Klein I try and like look for them in my passive web browsing and, um,
DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
- ▶ 29:59 unnamed speaker It takes, as some people are like, oh, you just need Kubernetes and Kubernetes has an autoscaler and that just works. 3 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 96 | With Modal CEO and Founder Erik Bernhardsson
- ▶ 2:08 Erik Bernhardsson So we're going to have to throw that out and, and, and probably going to have to build our own file system, which we did pretty early in a build our own scheduler and build our own container runtime.
- ▶ 3:10 Erik Bernhardsson So you don't have to think about all the sort of Kubernetes and Docker and stuff.
Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 58:33 Satya Nadella It's called the AI accelerator, because every app now needs a database, uh, a Kubernetes cluster, uh, and, and a model, uh, that runs on an AI accelerator, right?
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 35:03 Itamar Friedman Do you use Kubernetes, or do not, like, because we want to exploit that, there are companies that do not do that, et cetera.
- ▶ 38:46 Eric Simons I guess the question I have for you is, I mean, we, we were just doing that with, you know, kind of Kubernetes based stuff, but the spread of fortune, 500 companies that you're working with, how are they doing the inference for this?
BG2 Thanksgiving Roundtable: DOGE, EV Tax Credit, Tariffs, Conspiracy Theories, Invest America · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 29:48 Bill Gurley I'm sure they were worried that open AI would create proprietary data connectors and they want everyone to use this one, uh, very similar to what Google did with Kubernetes.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:12 Dan Fougere Also saw you're trying to implement Kafka here or, or, right, Kubernetes. 2 times in the scene
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 16:29 Erik Bernhardsson Uh, and then we started looking at, okay, well, you know, what actually happens typically in a system when you need to, when you do that is, uh, you know, you, you deploys in the Kubernetes and then, you know, you have to pull down a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Erik Bernhardsson Like, you know, if you're, like, a, you know, back-end developer just, like, deploying with Kubernetes or running things locally, it's actually not so bad.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 27:16 Jordan Tigani And, uh, and so it's just, you know, you're basically just running the thing in a, in a Kubernetes container.
His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned.... · PMF Show
- ▶ 11:26 Liron Zvibel It was before the days of Kubernetes and Docker, but container started happening.
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
- ▶ 31:00 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock You don't have to push that data out into Kubernetes clusters through different platforms, wait for asynchronous events to come back, and having finished, you can just push that model into the database and have it reside next to the data. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:50 Bret Taylor You know, I think if you look at, um, just look at the cloud infrastructure market, you have a lot of proprietary solutions like, you know, dynamo DB to store data, and you have a lot of open source, uh, things like Kubernetes,
Startup Acquisition Stories Podcast With Guilhermo Oenning, Founder of Fider
- ▶ 16:49 Guilhermo Oenning It's a desktop app for Kubernetes developers.
Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 30:17 Bill Gurley Google did it again with Kubernetes, which is a piece of technology that lets you move your workloads very easily between clouds. 3 times in the scene
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