Baseten

14 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2024 by Tuhin Srivastava · said 30 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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brought up most by Sarah Guo (17), Tuhin Srivastava (9), Neil Tiwari (2), Elad Gil (2)

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Mar 21, 2024 positive
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Srivastava: Most enterprises start AI adoption with developer copilots
“What we're seeing now is that, like, copilots, especially cogen stuff that actually has already made its way into the enterprise. Like, most enterprises we talk to, like, when you say, when you ask them how advanced are you on their AI strategy, they'll tell y…”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 18:49 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
Mar 21, 2024
Disclosure
Srivastava: Baseten powers AI features for Descript and Patreon
“We work with companies like Descript where AI is very, very core to the product experience. We power a lot of AI features that Patreon has shipped.”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 2:34 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
Mar 21, 2024 bullish
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Srivastava: Customer compute demands continuously escalate to A100s and H100s
“At the end of 2022, most of our customers were using T-folds and AT&Gs. You know, after that it changed to A-one hundreds. Now it's going to H-one hundreds. Like the computer needs aren't necessarily going down. They're only going up, especially as these servi…”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 8:28 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
Mar 21, 2024 negative
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Srivastava: Securing H100s still requires weeks of provider negotiations and escalations
“I think customers are still struggling with availability for the most premium chips. And I think, you know, whether that's eight, 108, 100, I think even when there is availability, you're oftentimes looking for like three to six weeks of negotiating with cloud…”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 32:24 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
Mar 21, 2024 bearish
Disclosure
Srivastava: Baseten is avoiding non-NVIDIA hardware investments in the short term
“I think short term you know, it's really hard for me to see how we make investments beyond NVIDIA, especially when there's a customer, where there's like customer A crunch on the other side from customers who are like, hey, we need this now.”
Tuhin Srivastava Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 33:51 No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
May 1, 2026
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Srivastava: 95% of Tokens on Baseten Run on Custom Modified Models
“I'd say, 95% of the tokens today are on the first business, and almost all of them there's probably a, yeah, for almost all of them, the customer is making some modifications to the model with their own data specialized for the use case, and I think what's eve…”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 13:52 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026
Insight
Srivastava: AI companies choose models by capability before optimizing cost
“There are a, there's a subset of tasks, which I think is small today, where people really start to start with cost. But everyone comes from capability first, because that's really where the economic growth is being unlocked, where the value is being delivered,…”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 8:31 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 positive
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Srivastava: Baseten Maintains 400% Annual NDR and Zero Top-30 Customer Churn
“None of our top 30 customers have ever churned. You know, we're talking Like, 400% annual NDR around our business, and so it's like very, it's very, very sticky.”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 24:59 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Srivastava: Only 3 or 4 Global Cloud Providers Belong in Gold Tier
“There's probably, like, a dozen good, like, clouds, and I'd probably, like, put, like, three or four of them in, like, the gold tier and I think that just means that, like, supply, like, not only are we supply crunched, we're supplier and operationally crunche…”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 21:14 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 positive
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Srivastava: Disentangling Pre-fill and Decode Yields Massive Performance Gains
“Somewhat disentangling pre-fill and decode and starting to treat them as separate problems. I think that's, you know, something we are very focused on, and we're seeing massive gains there.”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 29:13 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 negative
Insight
Srivastava: Founder micromanagement indicates having the wrong team
“If you feel like you are micromanaging, if you feel like you need, if you feel like, you know, you have to be involved in everything, I think that's a bit of a cop-out as a founder, because you're just like, I just need to be involved in everything. It's like,…”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 35:15 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Srivastava: Baseten Runs 90 Clusters Across 18 Clouds at Mid-90s Utilization
“We run them in, like, uncomfortably high utilization. You know, we, when I'm saying we're like mid-nineties utilization most of the time there is, we have made, we have, we sit in 18 different clouds now. We have 90 clusters around the world across 18 differen…”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 19:07 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 neutral
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Srivastava: AI-Native Startups Represent 99% of Total Inference Call Volume
“I think if you look by inference count, it'd be 99% the full.”
Tuhin Srivastava May 1, 2026 ▶ 5:06 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
May 1, 2026 positive
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Guo: Baseten Has Grown 30x Over the Past Year
“You guys have grown 30 X over the last year.”
Sarah Guo May 1, 2026 ▶ 0:39 Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
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