Michael Hurlston

Everything Michael Hurlston said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Hurlston: Fiber optics demand is creating an industry manufacturing bottleneck

“So there's a bottleneck that's developing. I think you talked about it with Tony. And as these fiber optics becomes more and more prevalent in data center, it's creating an ever tighter noose around the industry because there's only so much we can do so quickl…”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 7:25 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Existing Data Centers Will Shift to Optics Regardless of Buildouts

“What's interesting about the optical industry is if there are no more data center build outs, if you don't see this crazy rate of construction that we've seen over the past three or four years, still you're going to have a shift within the existing properties …”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 9:08 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Server Copper Wiring Will Move to Optical Within 12 Months

“That run in the back of the servers, and in the next 12 months, we'll see some of those copper wires move to optical.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 17:49 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Chinese Optical Suppliers Have a Significant Presence in US Data Centers

“Between the U.S. Optical component suppliers and how much we supply into the Chinese data centers, very little. We don't supply very much gear into the Chinese data centers, whereas Chinese optical component suppliers, some of our competitors, have a pretty bi…”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 19:33 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Copper wiring can no longer support necessary data center signal distances

“Inside the data center, you have speeds are increasing, bandwidths are increasing, and copper can no longer carry these signals the distances they need to go.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 3:02 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Lumentum Tripled Top-Line Revenue in Five Quarters

“I've been with the company only a short period of time. I've been there about five quarters now. And in those five quarters, we've tripled our top line revenue.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 9:37 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Lumentum Shifted Strategy to Become Almost a Data Center Pure-Play

“What I've done is said, okay, look, let's focus our efforts on the data center. There's enough here going on that we really want to simplify our business as much as we possibly can. Focus on where we think the biggest opportunities are, and that's the data cen…”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 12:27 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Lasers will be necessary to build an internet in space

“If you can put a laser in the ocean and transmit across the Pacific, you can certainly put lasers in space and create this reality of an internet in space, right? It's going to be necessary.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 13:22 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Hyperscalers request millions of optical units versus historical thousands

“You're talking about volumes of, let's say, a thousand units a quarter. And now we're being asked by these hyperscalers to deploy in 1,000,010 of millions of units. So it's really changed the dynamic in our industry, not just for Lumentum, but I think every si…”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 5:16 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Lumentum operates its own fabs rather than outsourcing

“And so for us, we actually operate our own fabs. So in some respect, we're like the TSMC of the optical industry.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 6:18 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Fiber Optics Outperforms Copper in Speed, Heat, and Power

“What you get with fiber optics is the ability to move data faster over longer distances with less heat and less power than you get with electricity.”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 2:21 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Hurlston: Space-to-Earth Data Lasers Will Not Burn Birds

“Similarly, you're not going to have birds burning up as these lasers shoot data down to the earth, right?”

Michael Hurlston Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 14:52 Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

The other half of the tape: Michael Hurlston's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 6 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Molly O'Shea 6

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Michael's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
SOURCERYLEDGER	President & CEO, Lumentum	1	12	80% 4/5	full record on Sourcery →