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“A typical job will take probably around a hundred machines working potentially over a three to four day period. And that, that configuration would produce a typical advertisement. So, you know, maybe, maybe a minute long, or maybe a bit longer than that.”

“We've raised roughly a million thus far from our own funding and from the angel investors that I've mentioned.”

“So after that, right now, we're offering credit hours at around a dollar 60 US per credit per, per credit hour, excuse me.”

“In that neighborhood. Yeah.”

“We serve studios who make movies, animations, and special effects, and they would use our service to submit what's called rendering and simulation, which is a very computationally intensive application, and through a button that they can push in their applicat…”

“So we're right now we're coming out with another round where we're looking to raise two million and we're looking for either, you know, a couple high net worth individuals who think you know, the concept that we're doing.”

“My partner and I have put money into the company, and we've had 10 angels invest in the company, and these are pretty noteworthy people from senior, senior level positions in financial services companies including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America. Here in San Fr…”

“When you get into large animations, like the ones that Disney and other movies studios produce, you're literally talking about millions of computer hours that are needed to produce those kinds of movies.”

“It's an arrangement that really does not require a service level agreement with our suppliers. It doesn't require any commitment for them to provide us any, you know, specific amount of machines. The reason for that is we've built a grid, so if one supplier's …”

“So today there are roughly 80% of the high performance computing servers that are in the world are not being used. They're idle. They're electrified. They're racked and stacked, but they're just sitting there waiting for something to come to them.”

“Right now we're deep into animation. We want to get into financial services and engineering.”

“Well, we've I would say we're in the probably just over the millions, million mark at the moment.”

“We have over 700 at the moment.”

“We're a global team, and we have about 20 people in, in different locations around the world.”