KR Sridhar

“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center.”

“Our very first data center application was in 2013 when eBay, which used to be eBay and PayPal together... PayPal's entire business is that data center because it's all about transactions... They did not have power in Utah, and they needed power.”

“If you look at my 2001 PowerPoint presentation, which was the pitch to Kleiner Perkins, who was my first investor, John Doerr, the summary page puts out a data center. It puts out a Bloom box powering the data center, the waste heat providing the cooling for the data center, and it being connected to nothing else. For me, the period between 2001 and now, the 25 years, was never a question of if. It was a question of when and how soon.”