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Erik Bernhardsson

@bernhardsson

Building @modal_labs when I'm not posting bangers about data and software. Previously built the music rec sys at Spotify and ran the eng team at Better.

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Hypothetical question, inspired by current events: if you’re a CEO and you tell a company: don’t acquire us, just hire me and my top people for half the price. That’s a breach of fiduciary duty to the shareholders right?

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My most psychotic opinion is that we should have multiple daylight savings adjustments every year. Today in NYC, sunrise is at 5:38am (1% are awake at this time and care) and sunset is at 8:25pm (100% are awake at this time and would love another hour of sun).

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Hedge fund tech used to be top notch but feels so behind in 2025. Outdated languages, infra, still running stuff on-prem etc. A lot of it because of vague security concerns around IP theft, I think? You're losing alpha not using modern tech!!

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I’m soo psyched to announce this one. We have raised again! Raised the bar for AI inference. By snapshotting GPU memory, we can cold start containers running vLLM or many other things extremely fast. This will be a game changer for many customers.

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People should go public the way they want but when Modal goes public I’m going to push for some absurd esoteric auction system just for fun.

People should go public the way they want but when Modal goes public I’m going to push for some absurd esoteric auction system just for fun.
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Can’t quite explain but I feel like Scandinavian culture has a high quality bar. Like, either make it nice, or don’t do it at all. Which maybe cuts both ways. But things are rarely half measures.

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For whatever reason, Modal always gets compared to "inference providers", which always confuses me? Modal was always built to be a general-purpose platform for AI/ML/data. Yes – we do inference really well! But we also do batch processing, sandboxes, training, ...