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On October 18, 2026, Rohan Paul recounted Cerebras's entrepreneurial journey in chip development. According to his account, Cerebras CEO and founder Andrew Feldman described the successive challenges the company encountered during its startup journey: first, they couldn't build it; then, they couldn't build it at volume; and then, they had no customers, no frontier labs, and no hyperscale cloud providers. The account also mentioned that Cerebras spent about $8 million per month for 18 consecutive months developing a chip that at the time still did not work properly, while holding a board meeting every six weeks to report to anxious investors. This account is currently a single-source report, with no subsequent factual developments yet.
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Cerebras CEO Recounts Deep-Tech Startup Journey
Cerebras CEO and founder Andrew Feldman recounted the company's startup journey: first they couldn't build it, then they couldn't build it at scale, and then there were no customers, no frontier labs, no hyperscalers. Cerebras spent about $8 million a month for 18 consecutive months developing a chip that didn't work properly at the time, while holding a board meeting every six weeks to report to anxious investors.