The podcast discusses the resurgence of IPOs in 2026, featuring CEOs Andrew Feldman (Cerebras) and Will Marshall (Planet Labs) who share their experiences of going public. Key insights include the challenges of the IPO process, the value creation after going public, and the transformative trends in AI silicon and space-based data centers.
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Andrew Feldman from Cerebras emphasizes that building a fundamentally different chip architecture (a dinner-plate-sized chip with memory next to compute) allowed Cerebras to achieve 15-18x faster performance than GPUs, enabling real-time AI interactions.
Will Marshall from Planet Labs explains that space-based data centers could become cheaper than terrestrial ones within 2-3 years if launch costs drop to $200-300/kg, leveraging 24/7 solar power in orbit.
Both CEOs agree that more value is created after IPOs than before; Planet Labs saw a 10x stock increase (from $5 to $50) post-IPO, and they advocate for companies going public earlier to allow public market investors to participate in growth.
The panel highlights a shift in venture capital from 'stay private forever' to a pendulum swinging back toward earlier IPOs, with companies like Cerebras using innovative 'dribble lockups' to gradually release shares post-IPO.
"I think historically more money is made after IPO than before. Every single study shows that there is more money to be made both in percentage and in what we care about, which is absolute."
"We are indexing the Earth and making it searchable. Just like Google figured out how to index the internet, we are doing the same for our planet."
"If you want to be 20 times better than somebody, your architecture can't look like them. They have eaten all the low-hanging fruit."