How Modal's Erik Bernhardsson ditched Kubernetes to build an AI cloud with sub-second container boots
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-04
General Catalyst interviews Modal founder Erik Bernhardsson on skipping Kubernetes to build a custom file system and container runtime for AI workloads: sub-second container boots, zero-to-thousands of GPUs in a few lines of code, plus his '1-2 year rule' for picking startup problems and near-bankruptcy before Stable Diffusion took off.
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