Rob Locken

“My first job ever was at a company called Exnor, where I did kernels development. I was 17... Exnor got bought by Apple for $200 million.”

“Did the same thing at Octo that got bought by NVIDIA for hundreds of millions of dollars.”

“TSMC customer service is way, way better than I have seen at any other company in any other industry... They will go run an experiment on their own dime in our case to see if they could actually get the higher yield.”

“Synopsys actually went ahead and let us get some of their emulators on extremely favorable terms where we pay over many years. Basically a big loan.”

“The flop density for FB8 times FB8 is lower than the Blackwell B300. And that makes sense because they don't have to go take the risk.”

“Lived in Bangalore for 4.5 months to rescue a critical vendor relationship and prevent a year-long delay.”